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Children, Disability, And The Digital Classroom: Rethinking Access And Assistive Technology For Low-Income Children With Disabilities In The Digital Age, Ashley R. Nyce
Connecticut Law Review
As U.S. public schools increasingly incorporate digital learning tools at home, primary and secondary classrooms have come to transcend their traditionally brick-and-mortar walls. While these hybrid learning environments provide powerful spaces to build digital literacy skills, low-income children with disabilities—among the most vulnerable students in the U.S. education system—are increasingly left behind. Recent data suggest that children with disabilities, particularly low-income children with disabilities, are less likely than their peers to have the fundamental technology necessary to access classrooms’ increasingly digital spaces. This discrepancy exacerbates disparate outcomes between children with and without disabilities, as those with disabilities receive lower test …
Hostile Learning Environments, The First Amendment, And Public Higher Education, Todd E. Pettys
Hostile Learning Environments, The First Amendment, And Public Higher Education, Todd E. Pettys
Connecticut Law Review
The Supreme Court has never squarely addressed the First Amendment status of student-on-student verbal harassment at public institutions of higher education. Does the First Amendment permit public colleges and universities to discipline students on the grounds that their speech has created a hostile learning environment for others on campus? If so, what is the analysis underlying that constitutional judgment, and what are the requisite hallmarks of such an environment? Does it matter whether a student’s speech created the hostile learning environment on its own or whether it wielded that power only by virtue of its combination with the speech of …