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Civil Rights and Discrimination

2007

Public schools

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Public School Students' Religious Speech And Viewpoint Discrimination, Kristi L. Bowman Sep 2007

Public School Students' Religious Speech And Viewpoint Discrimination, Kristi L. Bowman

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Why Student Religious Speech Is Speech, John E. Taylor Sep 2007

Why Student Religious Speech Is Speech, John E. Taylor

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Litigated Learning, Law's Limits, And Urban School Reform Challenges, Michael Heise Jun 2007

Litigated Learning, Law's Limits, And Urban School Reform Challenges, Michael Heise

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

This Article assesses the likely efficacy of litigation efforts seeking to enhance equal educational opportunity by improving student academic achievement in the nation's urban public schools. Past education reform litigation efforts focusing on school desegregation and finance met with mixed success. Current litigation efforts seeking to improve student academic achievement promise to be even less successful because student academic achievement involves variables and activities located further from the reach of litigation than such variables as a school's racial composition and per pupil spending levels. Moreover, efforts to improve student achievement in the nation's urban public schools--especially high poverty schools--face additional …