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Gender Segregation In The Public Schools; Opportunity, Inequality, Or Both., Bill Piatt
Gender Segregation In The Public Schools; Opportunity, Inequality, Or Both., Bill Piatt
The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice
Should the public schools be allowed to segregate girls from boys in the classroom? There is a history of single-sex education in this country, but there are concerns about single gender classrooms. In recent decades, researchers have begun to assert that requiring boys and girls to be taught together has a negative impact on the educational progress because of inherent differences in boy/girl learning behavior, or even in the development of their brains. Proponents of gender exclusive classrooms point out the voluntary nature of the programs, and the explicit findings of the Department of Education justifying such programs. Opponents argue …
Special Education Law, William H. Hurd, Stephen C. Piepgrass
Special Education Law, William H. Hurd, Stephen C. Piepgrass
University of Richmond Law Review
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Funny Money: How Federal Education Funding Hurts Poor And Minority Students, Cassandra Jones Havard
Funny Money: How Federal Education Funding Hurts Poor And Minority Students, Cassandra Jones Havard
All Faculty Scholarship
Neither race nor class alone can predict educational achievement. However, in America, disparities in funding for education may be an impediment to educational opportunity for disadvantaged youth. At the crux of the Nation's achievement gap among minority children is the question of the how states should allocate federal education funds, and how local school districts should use those monies. Educators have long recognized that the socioeconomic circumstances of many public school students present great educational challenges. Since 1965, Congress has authorized the use of federal funds by local school districts to remedy the achievement gap.
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Campus Violence: Understanding The Extraordinary Through The Ordinary, Nancy Chi Cantalupo
Campus Violence: Understanding The Extraordinary Through The Ordinary, Nancy Chi Cantalupo
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Recent mass shootings on college campuses have focused many on the responsibilities of colleges and universities to prevent and respond to such violence. However, in statistical terms, this type of campus violence can thankfully be considered relatively extraordinary. In contrast, the only type of campus violence that is unfortunately common enough to be characterized as “ordinary” is peer sexual assault and similar forms of campus gender-based violence. Accordingly, this essay explores the scope and dynamics of both “ordinary” and “extraordinary” campus violence, discusses the law and “best practices” dealing with peer sexual violence victims’ rights and the due process rights …
Examining Costs Of Diversity, Eboni S. Nelson
Examining Costs Of Diversity, Eboni S. Nelson
Faculty Publications
Although the Supreme Court struck down the voluntary race-based student-assignment plans employed in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. ] and Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education as violative of the Equal Protection Clause, many school officials will seek refuge in Justice Kennedy's concurrence and continue their pursuit of racially diverse student bodies. This Article questions the wisdom of such a pursuit and urges school officials to pursue measures other than racial diversity to provide equal educational opportunities to minority students.
The Article begins with a discussion of the social, democratic, and educational benefits commonly …