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The Reading Wars: Understanding The Debate Over How Best To Teach Children To Read, Kenneth Anderson Jun 2000

The Reading Wars: Understanding The Debate Over How Best To Teach Children To Read, Kenneth Anderson

Kenneth Anderson

This 2000 review essay from the Los Angeles Times Book Review examines the perennial debate over teaching reading to children - phonics or whole language.


Hacia Una Argentina Digital, Horacio M. Lynch, Mauricio Devoto Feb 2000

Hacia Una Argentina Digital, Horacio M. Lynch, Mauricio Devoto

Horacio M. LYNCH

"... En opinión de muchos especialistas respetados en el mundo, la Argentina no tiene futuro si no exporta. Pero exportar en este nuevo siglo no es lo mismo que hacerlo hacia el 1900: los precios de los productos primarios argentinos cayeron ocho veces en el siglo, lo que nos bajó del quinto puesto en el ránking de países al lugar número 50...".


Globalization And The U.S. Market In Legal Services – Shifting Identities, Carole Silver Dec 1999

Globalization And The U.S. Market In Legal Services – Shifting Identities, Carole Silver

Carole Silver

No abstract provided.


The Reform Of Ethics Rules In Arkansas Government, Robert B. Leflar Dec 1999

The Reform Of Ethics Rules In Arkansas Government, Robert B. Leflar

Robert B Leflar

This essay outlines existing conflict-of-interest rules in Arkansas government, particularly for state agencies, boards and commissions. The essay identifies weaknesses in the rules, and suggests disclosure requirements and certain restrictions on voting by board members with conflicts.


[The Accidental Crit I:] Literature And Arts As Antisubordination Praxis Latcrit Theory And Cultural Production: The Confessions Of An Accidental Crit, Pedro A. Malavet Dec 1999

[The Accidental Crit I:] Literature And Arts As Antisubordination Praxis Latcrit Theory And Cultural Production: The Confessions Of An Accidental Crit, Pedro A. Malavet

Pedro A. Malavet

This short article: (1) explains the development the Arts Panel at the LatCrit IV Conference and provides an account of its substantive content; (2) it gives the author's reactions to the presentations, while placing them within the planned description and written questions, locating them within the contemporary debate over the use of narrative in legal scholarship and in postmodern philosophical discourse more generally; and (3) the author gives a narrative about his own reluctant, difficult, and ultimately accidental gravitation towards LatCrit theory.


Malexandertalet: Ett Tal - Två Situationer, Matilda Arvidsson Dec 1999

Malexandertalet: Ett Tal - Två Situationer, Matilda Arvidsson

Dr Matilda Arvidsson

In this article the court speech delivered by the "Malexander widow", Anneli Ljungberg, is analysed in terms of Lloyd Bitzers "rhetorical situation" and found to work within two different and simultaneous rhetorical situations. Thus, the article shows how a court speech might break with rhetorical conventions of one rhetorical situation because of the conventions governing the other and simultaneously ongoing rhetorical situation.


Puerto Rico: Cultural Nation, American Colony, Pedro A. Malavet Dec 1999

Puerto Rico: Cultural Nation, American Colony, Pedro A. Malavet

Pedro A. Malavet

A study of Puerto Rico's century-old legal relationship with the United States, and how it constructs Puerto Ricans as legal and social second-class citizens because of their cultural nationhood. The discriminatory treatment conflicts with contemporary notions of justice and morality in postmodern political and legal philosophy. The article articulates a framework for legal reform that is consistent with a new progressive theoretical construct of a pluralistic and communitarian form of liberalism. I further developed the material that I discuss in this article in my book: America's Colony: The Political and Cultural Conflict Between the United States and Puerto Rico (NYU …


Revisiting Gay Rights Coalition Of Georgetown Law Center V. Georgetown University A Decade Later: Free Exercise Challenges And The Nondiscrimination Laws Protecting Homosexuals, Matthew J. Parlow Dec 1999

Revisiting Gay Rights Coalition Of Georgetown Law Center V. Georgetown University A Decade Later: Free Exercise Challenges And The Nondiscrimination Laws Protecting Homosexuals, Matthew J. Parlow

Matthew Parlow

Using the controversial 1987 case between Georgetown University and a gay and lesbian student organization as a backdrop, this article analyzes the free exercise rights of religiously-affiliated colleges and universities and their ability to discriminate against gay and lesbian student groups. The article tracks the jurisprudential development of free exercise challenges and details why current United States Supreme Court precedent provides little protection for such colleges and universities. Given the weakened state of free exercise rights, this article examines what rights and protections, if any, gays and lesbians have under the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause and local and state …


[The Accidental Crit I:] Literature And Arts As Antisubordination Praxis Latcrit Theory And Cultural Production: The Confessions Of An Accidental Crit, Pedro A. Malavet Dec 1999

[The Accidental Crit I:] Literature And Arts As Antisubordination Praxis Latcrit Theory And Cultural Production: The Confessions Of An Accidental Crit, Pedro A. Malavet

Pedro A. Malavet

This short article: (1) explains the development the Arts Panel at the LatCrit IV Conference and provides an account of its substantive content; (2) it gives the author's reactions to the presentations, while placing them within the planned description and written questions, locating them within the contemporary debate over the use of narrative in legal scholarship and in postmodern philosophical discourse more generally; and (3) the author gives a narrative about his own reluctant, difficult, and ultimately accidental gravitation towards LatCrit theory.