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Frost, Lynda E. – 1992
The theoretical constructs underlying legislative approaches to at-risk student statutes are examined in this paper, with attention given to the ways in which educational institutions make certain factors significant to student success. Legislative approaches closely follow the epidemiology model, which attempts to identify, predict, and immunize…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Protection
Stavsky, Mark M. – Law in American Society, 1975
A simulation depicting the jury selection for a controversial trial is described. For journal availability see SO 504 278. (DE)
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Class Activities, Court Litigation, Due Process
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Barkin, Thomas G. – Journal of College and University Law, 1975
Office of Education regulations upon which "need" analysis for federal student financial aid subsidies is based are presented and analyzed and the legal issues discussed. It is concluded that legal analysis tends to support the constitutionality of the guidelines. Recommendations are made that would provide flexibility within the guidelines. (JT)
Descriptors: College Students, Due Process, Equal Education, Equal Protection
Cannon, Joan Bartczak, Ed.; Smith, Ed, Ed. – 1982
This is an annotated directory of literature, films, training aids, and consultants on personnel and labor practices related to equal employment and affirmative actions issues. It was created to provide the working affirmative action/equal employment specialist with information that may facilitate the successful implementation of affirmative…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Aging. – 1983
This document contains prepared statements and public testimony from the Congressional hearing on legal services for the elderly. Following opening statements by task force members, the testimony of Senator Heinz and Representatives Morrison and Wyden is given. Topics which are covered include the impact of the Legal Services Corporation proposed…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Economic Factors, Eligibility, Equal Protection
Beach, Joyce – 1983
The implementation of any competency testing program must take into consideration the due process clause and the Equal Protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Examples of the violation of the due process clause would be to implement a testing program without adequate notice or to cover material not taught. Instructional validity must be…
Descriptors: Career Education, Court Litigation, Due Process, Equal Protection
Reynolds, Wm. Bradford – 1987
The Assistant Attorney General of the Civil Rights Division, United States Department of Justice, comments on the state of disability policy in the United States as reflected in current laws and regulations. Interagency efforts within government are seeking to identify gaps in coverage, as well as duplications and overlap, in existing federal…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Civil Rights Legislation, Disabilities, Disability Discrimination
Belsches-Simmons, Grace – 1983
This paper reviews State constitutions and State laws providing for race equity in education. Results of a comprehensive survey of constitutions and statutes reveal a substantial State commitment to the goal of education equity. Constitutional provisions in an overwhelming number of States mirror the requirements of the Federal equal protection…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Civil Rights Legislation, Constitutional Law, Educational Discrimination
Nickeson, Steve – Education Journal of the Institute for the Development of Indian Law, 1974
Government failure to protect Indian water rights has grown so serious in the arid regions of the West that the very existence of Indians as Indians is now in peril. (Author)
Descriptors: Agency Role, American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Conflict
Butterfield, Dennie D. – 1980
Significant changes in United States culture during the past 25 years and court decisions resulting from legal suits challenging traditional educational procedures have made the future course of education very unpredictable. The social unrest of the 1960s brought about innovations such as open classrooms and nongrading systems in the wake of…
Descriptors: Administrators, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation
HARTMAN, PAUL – 1963
THE 1954 SUPREME COURT DECISION IN "BROWN VERSUS BOARD OF EDUCATION," DECLARING RACIAL SEGREGATION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS DISCRIMINATORY AND IN VIOLATION OF THE EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE OF THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT, IS A LANDMARK IN AMERICAN LEGAL AND POLITICAL HISTORY. IT IS INFERRED FROM THE 1954 DECISION THAT THE RIGHT TO BE FREE FROM…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Constitutional History, Court Litigation, Desegregation Litigation
Phay, Robert E. – 1972
This speech, a transcript from the tape of the original presentation at a session of the School Law Conference held at the University of Tennessee reviews recent and pending court decisions in three active areas of School Law; school finance, school desegregation, and student rights, with an emphasis on the issues encompassing the latter. The…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Discipline, Due Process, Educational Finance
Decker, Dwight F. – 1975
The contractual duties of the department chairman at Rhode Island Junior College (RIJC), as at most public community colleges, place him in three roles: administrator, spokesman for his department, and teacher. Because, as a teacher, he is also a member of the collective bargaining unit, a conflict of role assignments occurs whenever the chairman…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Administrators, Collective Bargaining
University of South Florida, Tampa. – 1974
Despite the fact that the institution has never had a policy of racial discrimination in hiring and admission procedures, the University of South Florida (USF) was one of the first institutions of higher education in the southeast to adopt an affirmative action plan. This revised edition of the program contains: a description of the Equal…
Descriptors: Admission (School), Affirmative Action, Civil Rights, Educational Administration
Standing Conference of European Ministers of Education, Strasbourg (France). – 1973
Sweden, like most European countries, never set out to be an immigration country. Since its Government and Parliament have subscribed to the principle of maximum mobility across national frontiers, more than 400,000 foreign citizens and 200,000 former aliens reside in Sweden today. Immigration to Sweden is not completely free, though. A policy of…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Equal Protection, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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