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The Supreme Court And Public Schools, Erwin Chemerinsky
The Supreme Court And Public Schools, Erwin Chemerinsky
Erwin Chemerinsky
Review of Justin Driver's The Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind.
An Empirical And Constitutional Analysis Of Racial Ceilings And Public Schools, Michael Heise
An Empirical And Constitutional Analysis Of Racial Ceilings And Public Schools, Michael Heise
Michael Heise
No abstract provided.
Assessing The Efficacy Of School Desegregation, Michael Heise
Assessing The Efficacy Of School Desegregation, Michael Heise
Michael Heise
No abstract provided.
Are Single-Sex Schools Inherently Unequal?, Michael Heise
Are Single-Sex Schools Inherently Unequal?, Michael Heise
Michael Heise
No abstract provided.
Litigated Learning, Law's Limits, And Urban School Reform Challenges, Michael Heise
Litigated Learning, Law's Limits, And Urban School Reform Challenges, Michael Heise
Michael Heise
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 …
Emotional Segregation: Huckleberry Finn In The Modern Classroom, Sharon E. Rush
Emotional Segregation: Huckleberry Finn In The Modern Classroom, Sharon E. Rush
Sharon E. Rush
This paper explores the harm of teaching The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in public school classrooms. Such harm can be broadly described as emotional segregation, which occurs when society sanctions disrespect. To illustrate the effects of emotional segregation, this article explores the reaction Black students and parents have to the novel to that of White students and parents. White students eagerly imagine being Huck and going on his adventures. Black students, however, cannot and should not even be asked to try to imagine being Huck and betraying their racial identity. But then who are the Black students supposed to identify …
Can There Really Be "Free Speech" In Public Schools?, Richard W. Garnett
Can There Really Be "Free Speech" In Public Schools?, Richard W. Garnett
Richard W Garnett
The Supreme Court's decision in Morse v. Frederick leaves unresolved many interesting and difficult problems about the authority of public-school officials to regulate public-school students' speech. Perhaps the most intriguing question posed by the litigation, decision, and opinions in More is one that the various Justices who wrote in the case never squarely addressed: What is the "basic education mission" of public schools, and what are the implications of this "mission" for officials' authority and students' free-speech rights. Given what we have come to think the Free Speech clause means, and considering the values it is thought to enshrine and …
Tactics, Strategies & Battles—Oh My: Perserverance Of The Perpetual Problem Regarding Preaching To Public Shool Pupils & Why It Persists, Casey S. Mckay
Tactics, Strategies & Battles—Oh My: Perserverance Of The Perpetual Problem Regarding Preaching To Public Shool Pupils & Why It Persists, Casey S. Mckay
Casey Scott McKay
After reviewing the history of the religious war on Darwin’s Theory of Evolution, my article, “TACTICS, STRATEGIES & BATTLES—OH MY: PERSERVERANCE OF THE PERPETUAL PROBLEM REGARDING PREACHING TO PUBLIC SHOOL PUPILS & WHY IT PERSISTs,“ examines why such a seemingly well-settled issue survives and even, to some extent, prospers.
First, by exploiting common misconceptions among the American public, lawmakers are able to take advantage of ignorance driven by strong emotions. Next, religious special interests groups, with seemingly unlimited funds, thrust propaganda supported by worldwide media reinforcement on an already vulnerable American public. Thus, irresponsible state legislators, caught between a rock …
Warriors, Machismo, And Jockstraps: Sexually Exploitative Athletic Hazing And Title Ix In The Public School Locker Room, Susan P. Stuart
Warriors, Machismo, And Jockstraps: Sexually Exploitative Athletic Hazing And Title Ix In The Public School Locker Room, Susan P. Stuart
Susan P. Stuart
Sexually exploitative athletic hazing on boys’ athletic teams is an increasingly frequent feature in the news. The physical and psychological abuse of younger team members by those who are more senior is not just humiliating but dangerous. Indeed, some athletes are charged with crimes that are committed during hazing activities. More to the point, the features of sexually exploitative hazing have all the earmarks of sexual harassment when team leaders use sexual assaults to keep younger members in their place by feminizing them or otherwise challenging their ability to conform to a hegemonic masculine sports stereotype. Athletic hazing’s part in …
Tinker And The Diminution Of Public Education, Ryan Hardy
Tinker And The Diminution Of Public Education, Ryan Hardy
Ryan Hardy
Part I of this article discusses clothing as speech. Part II examines Tinker v. Des Moines. Part III examines the three other Supreme Court student expression cases. Part IV discusses the framework set up by the Supreme Court cases. Part IV also illustrates lower court decisions involving specific types of clothing or symbols and the confusion among those lower courts. Part V discusses the mission of public education and its relation to student expression. Part VI describes Tinker’s lasting effects on public education. Part VII explains that the Supreme Court should overrule Tinker and adopt a new standard
Tinker And The Diminution Of Public Education, Ryan Hardy
Tinker And The Diminution Of Public Education, Ryan Hardy
Ryan Hardy
Part I of this article discusses clothing as speech. Part II examines Tinker v. Des Moines. Part III examines the three other Supreme Court student expression cases. Part IV discusses the framework set up by the Supreme Court cases. Part IV also illustrates lower court decisions involving specific types of clothing or symbols and the confusion among those lower courts. Part V discusses the mission of public education and its relation to student expression. Part VI describes Tinker’s lasting effects on public education. Part VII explains that the Supreme Court should overrule Tinker and adopt a new standard
R (On The Application Of E) (Respondent) V Governing Body Of Jfs And The Admissions Appeal Panel Of Jfs (Appellants) And Others (Case Note) [2009] Uksc 15, Reuven (Ruvi) Ziegler
R (On The Application Of E) (Respondent) V Governing Body Of Jfs And The Admissions Appeal Panel Of Jfs (Appellants) And Others (Case Note) [2009] Uksc 15, Reuven (Ruvi) Ziegler
Dr. Reuven (Ruvi) Ziegler
This case-note offers comparative perspectives on the UK Supreme Court’s judgment in the JFS case (alleged racially discriminatory school admissions policy) and the Israeli Supreme Court’s judgment in the Emanuel Haredi school case (alleged Ashkenazi/Sephardi segregation arrangements).
The Political Origins Of Secular Public Education: The New York City School Controversy, 1840-1842, Ian C. Bartrum
The Political Origins Of Secular Public Education: The New York City School Controversy, 1840-1842, Ian C. Bartrum
Ian C Bartrum
THE ORIGINS OF SECULAR PUBLIC EDUCATION: THE NEW YORK SCHOOL CONTROVERSY, 1840-1842 As the title suggests, this article explores the historical origins of secular public education, with a particular focus on the controversy surrounding the Catholic petitions for school funding in nineteenth-century New York City. The article first examines the development of Protestant nonsectarian common schools in the northeast, then turns to the New York controversy in detail, and finally explores that controversy’s legacy in state constitutions and the Supreme Court. It is particularly concerned with two ideas generated in New York: (1) Bishop John Hughes’ objection to nonsectarianism as …
Let's Talk About Sex (Education): A Novel Interpretation Of The Meyer-Pierce Standard Governing Parental Control In Public Schools, Jacqueline Webb
Let's Talk About Sex (Education): A Novel Interpretation Of The Meyer-Pierce Standard Governing Parental Control In Public Schools, Jacqueline Webb
Jacqueline Webb
This Comment addresses the importance of parental control with regard to sex education in public schools and provides a workable middle of the road standard which balances the Constitutionally-granted rights of parents to control the upbringing of their children with the State’s interest in the education of its youngest citizens.
This Comment argues that the Meyer-Pierce standard has been incorrectly interpreted as creating two polar opposite views with regard to parental control in public schools, and a middle of the road standard is a more suitable application which protects both the parents’ Constitutionally-granted rights and the States’ interest. Part II …
Let's Talk About Sex (Education): A Novel Interpretation Of The Meyer-Pierce Standard Governing Parental Control In Public Schools, Jacqueline Webb
Let's Talk About Sex (Education): A Novel Interpretation Of The Meyer-Pierce Standard Governing Parental Control In Public Schools, Jacqueline Webb
Jacqueline Webb
This Comment addresses the importance of parental control with regard to sex education in public schools and provides a workable middle of the road standard which balances the Constitutionally-granted rights of parents to control the upbringing of their children with the State’s interest in the education of its youngest citizens.
This Comment argues that the Meyer-Pierce standard has been incorrectly interpreted as creating two polar opposite views with regard to parental control in public schools, and a middle of the road standard is a more suitable application which protects both the parents’ Constitutionally-granted rights and the States’ interest. Part II …
The Constitutional Ghetto, Robert L. Hayman, Nancy Levit
The Constitutional Ghetto, Robert L. Hayman, Nancy Levit
Nancy Levit
The goal of this Article is to assess two Supreme Court desegregation decisions. It is our view that Board of Education v. Dowell and Freeman v. Pitts are, by almost every measure, seriously flawed decisions. The opinions of the Court rest on epistemic premises - reductionist views of race and racism, and an absurdly formalistic conception of equality - that are by turns either anachronistic, cramped and inauthentic, or demonstrably wrong. Worse, they promote a vision of American society - fragmented, hierarchical, and shamelessly individualistic - that is fundamentally inconsistent both with the egalitarian norms embodied in the Fourteenth Amendment …