Stanford Center on Adolescence

Reich's main interests are in contemporary political theory. He is working on two main projects, the first about topics in ethics, public policy, and philanthropy, the second about the ideals of equality and adequacy as applied to education policy and reform. He is the author of Bridging Liberalism and Multiculturalism in American Education (University of Chicago Press, 2002) and co-author of Democracy at Risk: How Political Choices Undermine Citizen Participation and What We Can Do About It (Brookings Institution Press, 2005). He has received fellowships from the Spencer Foundation, the Stanford Humanities Center and the Center for Human Values at Princeton University.

Rob is the recipient of several teaching awards, including the Walter J. Gores Award, Stanford University’s highest award for teaching. He is the co-founder Stanford University Hope House Scholars Program, a liberal arts course taught by Stanford faculty at Hope House, a residential substance abuse facility for women in Redwood City, CA. Before attending graduate school, Rob was a sixth grade teacher at Rusk Elementary School in Houston, Texas.

E-mail: reich@stanford.edu
Website: www.stanford.edu/~reich
Tel: (650) 723-2608

BOOKS

• Toward a Humanist Justice: The Political Philosophy of Susan Moller Okin, forthcoming Oxford University Press, 2008.

• Bridging Liberalism and Multiculturalism in Education, University of Chicago Press, 2002.

• Democracy at Risk: How Political Choices Undermine Citizen Participation, and What We Can Do About It, Brookings Institution Press, 2005. [Co-author]

• “Common Schooling and Educational Choice as a Response to Pluralism,” lead essay in School Choice Policies and Outcomes: Philosophical and Empirical Perspectives on Limits to Choice in Liberal Democracies, Walter Feinberg and Christopher Lubienski, eds. (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2008). [31 pages]

• “When Adequate Isn’t: The Retreat From Equity in Educational Law and Policy and Why it Matters”, with William S. Koski. Emory Law Review, Vol. 56, No. 3, 2006.

• “Philanthropy and its Uneasy Relation to Equality,” in Taking Philanthropy Seriously: Beyond Noble Intentions to Responsible Giving, William Damon and Susan Verducci, eds. (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006): 33-49.

• "Philanthropy and its Uneasy Relation to Equality," forthcoming in Taking Philanthropy Seriously: Beyond Noble Intentions to Responsible Giving, William Damon and Susan Verducci, eds. (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006).

• “A Failure of Philanthropy: American Charity Shortchanges the Poor, and Public Policy is Partly to Blame,” Stanford Social Innovation Review, Winter 2005: 24-33.

• "A Failure of Philanthropy: American Charity Shortchanges the Poor, and Public Policy is Partly to Blame," Stanford Social Innovation Review, Winter 2005.

• "Hope House Scholars: The Universal Reach of the Liberal Arts" an essay with Debra Satz, Dissent, Winter 2004.

• "Why Homeschooling Should Be Regulated," in Homeschooling in Full View: A Reader, Bruce S. Cooper, ed. (Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing, 2005).

• "Minors Within Minorities: A Problem for Liberal Multiculturalists", in Minorities Within Minorities: Equality, Rights, and Diversity, Jeff Spinner-Halev and Avigail Eisenberg, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2005.

• "A Liberal Democratic Approach to Language Justice," co-author with David Laitin, in Political Theory and Language Justice, Will Kymlicka and Alan Patten, eds., Oxford University Press, 2003.

• "Multicultural Accommodations in Education," in Education and Citizenship in Liberal-Democratic Societies: Teaching for Cosmopolitan Values and Collective Identities, Walter Feinberg and Kevin McDonough, eds., Oxford University Press, 2003.

• "Testing the Boundaries of Parental Authority Over Children: The Case of Homeschooling" in Political and Moral Education: NOMOS XLIII, Stephen Macedo and Yael Tamir, Eds. New York: New York University Press, 2001.

• "Families and Schools as Compensating Agents in Moral Development for a Multicultural Society," with Susan M. Okin in The Journal of Moral Education, 1999.

• "Confusion About the Socratic Method: Socratic Paradoxes and Contemporary Invocations of Socrates," in Philosophy of Education: 1998, Philosophy of Education Society, Urbana, IL, 1998.

• "Revitalizing the Ecosystem for Youth: A New Perspective for School Reform," with Michael Timpane, Phi Delta Kappan, 1997.