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Symposium Current Issues In Disability Rights Law, Samuel J. Levine
Symposium Current Issues In Disability Rights Law, Samuel J. Levine
Samuel J. Levine
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Opportunity Lost: Teachers’ Union Reform - Past, Present & Future, Edward C. Klein Iii
Opportunity Lost: Teachers’ Union Reform - Past, Present & Future, Edward C. Klein Iii
Edward C Klein III
Teachers’ unions, in their current form, truly took shape in the tumult of the 1960’s. Built upon the model of industrial unionism first codified in the private sector with the National Labor Relations Act of 1935, and later extended to the public sector through state law, teachers’ unions simultaneously embraced the language of the Civil Rights movement and the classic labor-management dichotomy. Thus, teachers’ unions have come to be a powerful influence on American public education for over 50 years, representing approximately three-quarters of all public school teachers today.
However, the direction of teacher’s unions has not always been clear, …
The 2006 Winthrop And Frances Lane Lecture: The Unintended Legal And Policy Consequences Of The No Child Left Behind Act, Michael Heise
The 2006 Winthrop And Frances Lane Lecture: The Unintended Legal And Policy Consequences Of The No Child Left Behind Act, Michael Heise
Michael Heise
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No Lawsuit Left Behind, Michael Heise
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 …
Article: No Child Left Behind: Why Race-Based Achievement Goals Violate The Equal Protection Clause, Ayriel Bland
Article: No Child Left Behind: Why Race-Based Achievement Goals Violate The Equal Protection Clause, Ayriel Bland
Ayriel Bland
In 2002, No Child Left Behind (NCLB) was passed under President George W. Bush with the goal of increasing academic proficiency for all children in the United States by 2014. Yet, many states struggled to meet this goal and the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education allowed states to apply for waivers and bypass the 2014 deadline. Some states implemented waivers though race-based achievement standards. For example, Florida in October 2012, established that by 2018, 74 percent of African American and 81 percent of Hispanic students had to be proficient in math and reading, in comparison to 88 percent …