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Author
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
"As we approach the fiftieth anniversary of the Supreme Court's 1964 desegregation decision in Brown v. Board of Education, the United States is still struggling to close the wide gap that separates the achievement of African American and Latino from white and Asian students. For the past half-century, reformers have wielded a range of strategies including desegregation, compensatory education, curricular reforms, and attempts to equalize funding....
14) Student rights
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Does freedom of assembly apply to a high-school junior organizing a protest against the school administration? Does disrespecting a teacher fall under freedom of speech? The diverse perspectives in this collection explore the concept of student rights and tackle what civil and constitutional rights are covered when you're in an educational environment. Readers can expect discussions of relevant court cases and instances of student-led activism, as...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"This book gives principals the tools they need to avoid lawsuits by teaching their staff the information they need to practice preventive law. Lawsuits often begin when teachers unintentionally violate students' rights such as searching a student's cell phone without reasonable suspicion or failing to follow a student's Individualized Education Program. These violations do not occur because teachers intend to break the law. They occurred because...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"By a brilliant young constitutional scholar at the University of Chicago--who clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia for Judge Merrick B. Garland and on the Supreme Court of the United States for Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Stephen Breyer, and who also happens to be an elegant stylist--a powerfully alarming book concerned to vindicate the constitutional rights of public school students, so often trampled upon by the...
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