Roseann Liu
Assistant Professor of Educational Studies and Asian American Studies

Areas of Expertise
- Race and educational inequality
- School funding inequity
- Urban education
- Solidarity
Publications
- Designed to Fail: Why Racial Equity in School Funding Is So Hard to Achieve (University of Chicago Press, 2024)
In the News
- The Philadelphia Inquirer - "Pennsylvania’s school funding is unconstitutional. A Swarthmore professor explains why the system is still difficult to change."
- Chalkbeat - "Seventy years after Brown v Board of Education, school funding is the new frontier in education equity"
- KYW Newsradio - "Why Can’t We Make School Funding Equitable?"
- WHYY - "Education Equity Forum in Germantown addresses funding disparities in Philly public schools"
- The Hechinger Report - "The Supreme Court ruling on race in college admissions ignores bigger inequities that must be addressed"
Profile