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The Courts, the Charter, and the Schools examines how the Constitution Act has affected educational policy during the first twenty-five years of the Charter by analyzing landmark rulings handed down from appellate courts and the Supreme Court.
This book employs a comparative approach to explore the nature of the disputes that arise between parents/children and education decision-makers over children's special educational needs and to consider the different methods adopted for the resolution of these disputes. In doing…
Discusses 2006 and 2008 referendums that banned affirmative action in some states while upholding it in others, and offers a defense of affirmative action in public and private institutions, discussing the practice as a tool for social reform.
This book examines UCLA's Legal Education Opportunity Program, one of the earliest and most expansive affirmative action programs. From its creation in 1966 to its partial demise at the hands of a divided U.S. Supreme Court in 1978, the program dramatically reshaped the legal ar…
A collection of works on racial and ethnic discrimination in American public schools. Discusses several cases relating to that topic: Méndez (1946); Brown (1954); The Civil Rights Act (1964); Milliken (1974); Jenkins (1995); Parents Involved and Meredith (2007).
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Wissenschaft meint seit jeher nicht nur theoretische Reflexion, sondern immer auch gesellschaftliche Praxis. Heute steht diese Praxis, die Welt der modernen Wissenschaften und ihrer institutionellen Formen mitten im Strom tiefgreifender Veränderungen - Exzellenzinitiativen und C…
Examines the ongoing efforts of lawyers and allied professionals to construct, police and redefine their boundaries. Focusing on the newly emerging large multinationals, it explores the relationship between professions, the economy and the state.
In view of the trend of demoting education from "human right" to "human need", this book seeks to affirm education as a "human right" and to describe the various state duties flowing from the right to education, by systematically analyzing article 13 of the International Covenan…