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A Cognitive And Social Psychological Analysis Of Disclosure Laws And Call For Mortgage Counseling To Prevent Predatory Lending, 16 Psychol. Pub. Pol'y & L. 85 (2010), Debra Stark, Jessica Choplin
A Cognitive And Social Psychological Analysis Of Disclosure Laws And Call For Mortgage Counseling To Prevent Predatory Lending, 16 Psychol. Pub. Pol'y & L. 85 (2010), Debra Stark, Jessica Choplin
Debra Pogrund Stark
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Veiled Discrimination, Sahar F. Aziz
Veiled Discrimination, Sahar F. Aziz
Sahar F. Aziz
Should employees have the legal right to “be themselves” at work? Most Americans would answer in the negative because work is a privilege, not an entitlement. An employer’s workplace rules that define professionalism, therefore, are his prerogative and defined by the demands of the marketplace. Underlying this conclusion is the false premise that objective and neutral factors shape modern notions of professionalism. To the contrary, professionalism is a subjective concept dependent on the decision makers’ worldview, norms, values, and definitions of propriety. Employees who belong to the employer’s social group or fall within society’s majority are advantaged as minimal effort …
The Persistence Of Low Expectations In Special Education Law Viewed Through The Lens Of Therapeutic Jurisprduence, Richard Peterson
The Persistence Of Low Expectations In Special Education Law Viewed Through The Lens Of Therapeutic Jurisprduence, Richard Peterson
Richard Peterson
For more than thirty-five years a paradigm of low expectations has infected efforts to educate children with disabilities and has been a persistent and stubborn obstacle to the successful implementation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), and its predecessor, the Education of All Handicapped Children Act (EAHCA). This dilemma raises questions addressed in this paper: What is meant by low expectations in the context of Special Education Law? What are the root causes of this phenomenon, and what makes it so resistant to change? How does it impede implementation of the IDEA? And lastly, in what ways does …
Lyon, T.D., Lamb, M.E., & Myers, J.E.B. (In Press). [Legal And Psychological, Thomas D. Lyon
Lyon, T.D., Lamb, M.E., & Myers, J.E.B. (In Press). [Legal And Psychological, Thomas D. Lyon
Thomas D. Lyon
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