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Direct linkHazi, Helen M. – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2014
This article forecasts potential legal problems emerging from the use of new teacher evaluation systems in the states. This research was a policy analysis that combined three types of data to forecast the states and the legal challenges they might encounter: state policy data, selected case law, and problems from the literature of teacher…
Descriptors: Legal Problems, Teacher Evaluation, Policy Analysis, Educational Policy
McPherson, Ezella – Education and Urban Society, 2010
The U.S. District of Columbia's Federal Circuit Court decision in "Hobson v. Hanson" (1967) case eliminated racial discriminatory tracking practices in the nation's capitol's public schools. The court ruled that D.C. Public Schools' tracking violated African American and low income students' rights to equal opportunities to education…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Public Schools, Equal Education, Court Litigation
Peer reviewedHornby, D. Brock – Liberal Education, 1975
Two legal problems highlighted by the DeFunis litigation are: (1) the proper role of race in undergraduate admissions; and (2) the procedure of underground graduate admissions. (Author/KE)
Descriptors: Admission (School), Admission Criteria, Court Litigation, Enrollment
Habecker, Eugene B. – 1986
The applicability of Fourteenth Amendment procedural due process to private colleges and universities is discussed. After considering state action in private higher education, cases from 11 federal judicial circuits are reviewed to show how courts have applied the various theories of state action. An emerging theory of state action that is…
Descriptors: Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Due Process, Federal Government
