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Racing On Two Different Tracks: Using Substantive Due Process To Challenge Tracking In Schools, Katarina Wong
Racing On Two Different Tracks: Using Substantive Due Process To Challenge Tracking In Schools, Katarina Wong
Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy Sidebar
Tracking is a widespread educational practice where secondary schools divide students into different classes or “tracks” based on their previous achievements and perceived abilities. Tracking produces different levels of classes, from low ability to high ability, based on the theory that students learn better when grouped with others at their own level. However, tracking often segregates students of color and low socioeconomic status into low-tracked classes and these students do not receive the same educational opportunities as white and/or wealthier students. Students and parents have historically challenged tracking structures in their schools using an Equal Protection Clause framework. However, this …
August 12, 2018: Decent Republicans, Especially Law Professors, Have Got To Stop Voter Suppression, Bruce Ledewitz
August 12, 2018: Decent Republicans, Especially Law Professors, Have Got To Stop Voter Suppression, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Decent Republicans, Especially Law Professors, Have Got to Stop Voter Suppression“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
July 10, 2018: Needed: A Nonpartisan Pro-Democracy Caucus Among Law Professors, Bruce Ledewitz
July 10, 2018: Needed: A Nonpartisan Pro-Democracy Caucus Among Law Professors, Bruce Ledewitz
Hallowed Secularism
Blog post, “Needed: A Nonpartisan Pro-Democracy Caucus Among Law Professors“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.
We’Ve Come A Long Way (Baby)! Or Have We? Evolving Intellectual Freedom Issues In The Us And Florida, L. Bryan Cooper, A.D. Beman-Cavallaro
We’Ve Come A Long Way (Baby)! Or Have We? Evolving Intellectual Freedom Issues In The Us And Florida, L. Bryan Cooper, A.D. Beman-Cavallaro
Works of the FIU Libraries
This paper analyzes a shifting landscape of intellectual freedom (IF) in and outside Florida for children, adolescents, teens and adults. National ideals stand in tension with local and state developments, as new threats are visible in historical, legal, and technological context. Examples include doctrinal shifts, legislative bills, electronic surveillance and recent attempts to censor books, classroom texts, and reading lists.
Privacy rights for minors in Florida are increasingly unstable. New assertions of parental rights are part of a larger conservative animus. Proponents of IF can identify a lessening of ideals and standards that began after doctrinal fruition in the 1960s …
School Desegregation 2.0: What Is Required To Finally Integrate America's Public Schools, Jim Hilbert
School Desegregation 2.0: What Is Required To Finally Integrate America's Public Schools, Jim Hilbert
Northwestern Journal of Human Rights
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