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Christine Ladwig; Dana Schwieger – Information Systems Education Journal, 2024
Hollywood screenwriters worry about Artificial Intelligence (AI) replacements taking over their jobs. Famous museums litigate to protect their art from AI infringement. A major retailer scraps a machine-learning based recruitment program that was biased against women. These are just a few examples of how AI is affecting the world of work,…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Curriculum Development, Information Systems, Information Science Education
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Bruce Maxwell – Theory and Research in Education, 2024
This article first describes and then proposes a practical solution to the professional dilemma between the duty of impartiality and the duty of human rights advocacy that many teachers experience when teaching and talking about politically sensitive issues with students. The article begins by presenting an analysis of the source and signification…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Advocacy, Civil Rights, Political Attitudes
Domanico, Ray – Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 2023
In New York State, private and religious schools are required to offer a curriculum "substantially equivalent" to what is available in local public schools. Substantial equivalency--which has been law for nearly 130 years--allows parents to direct the education of their children by enrolling them in the school of their choice, while also…
Descriptors: Judaism, Religious Schools, Legal Problems, Beliefs
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Hickman, Barbara – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2021
The use of social media may be contributing to violations of copyright law and can create legal challenges for school districts trying to balance ease of communication and First Amendment freedom of speech rights against compliance with federal regulations. In this case, a district is threatened with a lawsuit for copyright violation when one of…
Descriptors: Social Media, Copyrights, Computer Mediated Communication, Constitutional Law
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Hermann, Ronald S. – American Biology Teacher, 2013
In order to effectively teach evolution to all students, even those resistant to learning evolution, science teachers may question the extent to which religion can legally be discussed in the public high school science classroom. Evolution is taught from a variety of approaches, each of which has legal implications. Four approaches to teaching…
Descriptors: Evolution, Legal Problems, Educational Legislation, Public Schools
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Ober, Patrick; Decker, Janet R. – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2016
This case illustrates why future school leaders must be prepared to handle complex legal and political issues that commonly arise in school districts today. We discuss a long-standing and unresolved legal battle between a Hasidic Jewish community and the public school district in East Ramapo, New York. In particular, we examine the difficulties…
Descriptors: School Districts, Legal Problems, Conflict, Jews
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Paley, Blair; O'Connor, Mary J. – Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews, 2009
Exposure to alcohol in utero is considered to be the leading cause of developmental disabilities of known etiology. The most severe consequence of such exposure, fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), is characterized by a distinct constellation of characteristic facial anomalies, growth retardation, and central nervous system (CNS) dysfunction. Some…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Etiology, Anatomy
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Tan, G. K. Randolph – Accounting Education, 2011
Bloom and Webinger (2011), written by two professors from John Carroll University in the USA who are involved in teaching accounting, discusses an attempt at embedding relevant lessons from the recent global financial crisis (GFC) into an undergraduate accounting curriculum. It suggests that accounting courses infused with such a treatment would…
Descriptors: Accounting, Business Administration Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Integrated Curriculum
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McAdams, Tony – Journal of Legal Studies Education, 2009
Law classes help reveal the successes of the American legal system. Students observe that the law is honorable, workable, and effective. At the same time, law classes offer the opportunity to look at those situations where the legal system sometimes struggles to achieve its justice goals. Students certainly need to learn that lesson, but they also…
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Ethics, Legal Education (Professions), Business Administration