Descriptor
Source
| Inequality in Education | 7 |
Author
| Weckstein, Paul | 2 |
| Dimond, Paul R. | 1 |
| Dunkle, Margaret C. | 1 |
| McClung, Merle | 1 |
| Rice, Roger | 1 |
| Sandler, Bernice | 1 |
| Strickman, Leonard P. | 1 |
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Education Level
Audience
Location
Laws, Policies, & Programs
| Education Amendments 1972 | 2 |
| Title IX Education Amendments… | 2 |
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Weckstein, Paul – Inequality in Education, 1974
School policies often result in differing treatment of males and females. Sometimes the difference is clearly intended, as when homemaking is required for females and shop for males. Often, however, such intention is either lacking or unclear, as when a school refuses financial aid to its part-time students, the majority of whom are women. In…
Descriptors: Court Doctrine, Court Litigation, Equal Protection, Federal Legislation
Dunkle, Margaret C.; Sandler, Bernice – Inequality in Education, 1974
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 mandates that sex discrimination be eliminated in federally assisted education programs. Although a few issues such as competitive athletics have generated wide interest, Title IX has significant implications for a variety of less publicized issues including recruiting, admissions, financial aid,…
Descriptors: Athletics, Equal Protection, Federal Legislation, Legal Problems
Strickman, Leonard P. – Inequality in Education, 1973
Descriptors: Community Control, Equal Protection, Minority Groups, Parent Participation
Rice, Roger – Inequality in Education, 1975
Summarizes the status of bilingual/bicultural education litigation following the Lau decision in 1974. (Author)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Court Litigation, Desegregation Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education
Weckstein, Paul – Inequality in Education, 1973
Schools frequently use test scores to divide students into groups, i.e., to classify them. In attempting to challenge such procedures, lawyers can draw on a developed body of case law on testing in education, employment, and other areas. Discusses those cases. (JF)
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Court Litigation, Elementary Schools, Equal Protection
McClung, Merle – Inequality in Education, 1973
An attempt to formulate a legal framework to aid lawyers considering legal challenges to student classifications such as uneducable, mentally retarded, emotionally disturbed, hyperkinetic, vocational, etc. (JF)
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Court Litigation, Due Process, Equal Protection
Dimond, Paul R. – Inequality in Education, 1972
Discusses the constitutional implications of any grouping or tracking policy decision. (JF)
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Classification, Court Litigation, Equal Education
