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Policing In Schools: Developing A Governance Document For School Resource Officers In K-12 Schools, India Geronimo Thusi, Catherine Y. Kim Aug 2009

Policing In Schools: Developing A Governance Document For School Resource Officers In K-12 Schools, India Geronimo Thusi, Catherine Y. Kim

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This White Paper argues that a formal governance document is necessary to ensure that law enforcement, school officials, and the communities they serve have a shared understanding of the goals of the SRO program, and that these officers receive the necessary support and training prior to their deployment.6 Absent specific guidelines, SROs may not have a clear understanding of their role within the larger educational context or the rights and needs of the children they are intended to serve; they may inadvertently, and indeed counterproductively, create an adversarial environment that pushes students, particularly at-risk students, out of school rather than …


No Boy Left Behind? Single-Sex Education And The Essentialist Myth Of Masculinity, David S. Cohen Jan 2009

No Boy Left Behind? Single-Sex Education And The Essentialist Myth Of Masculinity, David S. Cohen

Indiana Law Journal

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Change In Racial And Ethnic Classifications Is Here: Proposal To Address Race And Ethnic Ancestry Of Blacks For Affirmative Action Admissions Purposes, Kevin D. Brown Jan 2009

Change In Racial And Ethnic Classifications Is Here: Proposal To Address Race And Ethnic Ancestry Of Blacks For Affirmative Action Admissions Purposes, Kevin D. Brown

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Can Public International Boarding Schools In Ghana Be The Next Educational Reform Movement For Low-Income Urban Minority Public School Students?, Kevin D. Brown Jan 2009

Can Public International Boarding Schools In Ghana Be The Next Educational Reform Movement For Low-Income Urban Minority Public School Students?, Kevin D. Brown

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The past twenty-five years has witnessed dramatic changes in the world, including the rise of international trade, unprecedented movement of people across national borders, tremendous advances in communication technologies and new forms of knowledge. Due to the changes of this magnitude, the American public is aware of new and formidable global and international problems that did not exist before. However, these changes also provide the conditions for applying new solutions to domestic problems that have plagued American society for decades. This Article puts forward an innovative suggestion to a persistent problem of American society: the problem of how to improve …


Now Is The Appropriate Time For Selective Higher Education Programs To Collect Racial And Ethnic Data On Its Black Applicants And Students, Kevin D. Brown Jan 2009

Now Is The Appropriate Time For Selective Higher Education Programs To Collect Racial And Ethnic Data On Its Black Applicants And Students, Kevin D. Brown

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American colleges and universities have traditionally lumped all of their black students into a unified “Black/African/African American" category. However, there is growing evidence that American higher education is witnessing a historic change in the racial and ethnic ancestry of Blacks who are the beneficiaries of affirmative action. Recent studies have pointed out that disproportionately large percentages of Blacks benefiting from affirmative action are foreign-born Black immigrants, their sons and/or daughters, and multiracials. In addition, the number and percentage of blacks approaching college age from these groups will increase substantially in the next five to ten years.

In light of this …


African American Disproportionality In School Discipline: The Divide Between Best Evidence And Legal Remedy, Kevin D. Brown, Russell J. Skiba, Suzanne E. Eckes Jan 2009

African American Disproportionality In School Discipline: The Divide Between Best Evidence And Legal Remedy, Kevin D. Brown, Russell J. Skiba, Suzanne E. Eckes

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