-
[...] the author encourages the legislature to redefine Title I and implement regulations which will ensure fiscal accountability and that Title I funds are directed to students. The author sees the later restrictions as contributing to the rise of home schooling and a sectarian divisiveness that the separation of church and state was meant to ameliorate.\n This comment discusses budget cuts to educational programs for gifted students as well as how these programs are treated. First Amendment Student Free Speech Claim.
-
For the principal. Because the principal was exercising professional discretion in the discharge of her duty, which fell within the scope of employment, the DOE must provide legal counsel for her defense. Under defamation standards, the rumor was provably false. Because the school district did not stop the rumor from spreading and did not perform any further investigation, the school district was liable.
-
Low teacher motivation and its detrimental effect on student achievement are central problems of many education systems in Africa. Using standardized data for student achievement in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Madagascar and Senegal, this paper analyzes the empirical links between various policy measures, teacher job satisfaction and primary education outcomes. It appears that there is only very limited evidence for the effectiveness of intensively debated and costly measures such as reducing class size, increasing academic qualification requirements, and increasing teachers salaries. Other, simpler measures such as an increased provision of textbooks are both more effective and less costly. It also appears that teacher job satisfaction and education quality are not necessari...
-
Employment and Dismissal - Teachers African-American substitute teacher sued school district complaining of racial discrimination. Teacher sued school district alleging racial discrimination and due process violations. School district sued department of education regarding order requiring district to provide services to nonpublic school children with disabilities. Students sued school district in class action suit under Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Parents sued board of education alleging failure to provide free appropriate public education (FAPE) required by Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
-
WASHINGTON -- Hillary Clinton, 60, Illinois native and Arkansas lawyer, became, retroactively, a lifelong Yankee fan at age 52 when, shopping for a U.S. Senate seat, she adopted New York state as home sweet home. She may think, or at least would argue, that when she was 12 her Yankees really won the 1960 World Series, by standards of "fairness," because they trounced the Pirates in runs scored, 55- 27, over seven games, so there.
Unfortunately, baseball's rules -- pesky nuisances, rules -- say it matters how runs are distributed during a World Series. The Pirates won four games, which is the point of the exercise, by a total margin of seven runs, while the Yankees were winning three by a total of 35 runs. You can look it up.
-
Most underdeveloped countries spend much more on tertiary education per student versus primary and secondary education per student, while in developed countries this ratio is much smaller. To examine this issue I present an overlapping generations model with heterogeneous agents. Heterogeneity arises from differential innate ability. Agents choose how many years of school to attend. The government also provides different amounts of funding for primary plus secondary schooling and tertiary schooling. The government allows only the top percentile of students graduating from secondary education to participate in tertiary education. I find that insufficient funding for primary and secondary school hurts every individual in the economy as well as decreasing output and increasing inequality, ...
-
THE MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION, ACADEMY FOR EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, AND SOCIETY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT HOLD AN EVENT TO LAUN...
-
Since this article was published, the Supreme Court dealt with the issue in Forest Grove School District v. TA. After discussing the Supreme Court's decision in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No.\n No Child Left Behind No Child Left Behind and the Inherent Conflict with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act: The author examines the history of gifted student education and the limited role of the federal government in shaping education policy for gifted students, arguing that NCLB 's focus on "closing the achievement gap" hinders gifted students' ability to reach their full academic potential.
-
A TRUISM INDOLOGISTS OFTEN RESORT TO is that the are of traditional India is in many respects situated vis-a-vis our own as its opposite pole. On the ...
-
Teacher who had allegedly spoken on controversial issues at school board meetings during her presidency of local educator's association filed violation of free speech, association, and equal protection actions against School District for refusing to allow the rescission of teacher's notice of retirement. The act of the receptionist was not discretionary in that it merely required her to execute the specific duty of checking the card. [...] the receptionist's nondiscretionary act is not protected by state immunity protection and she can be held liable for her negligence in releasing the student. Fees were not excessive. [...] award of fees was appropriate.