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At the Very Apex: What the Supreme Court's Student Speech Cases Have to Teach Us about a Constitutional Right to Education
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Warnick, Bryan R.; Thomas, Christopher D. – Teachers College Record, 2023
Background/Context: In the 1973 "Rodriguez" decision, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Constitution does not guarantee a substantive federal right to education. So far, this holding has not been adequately contextualized with many other statements the Court has made concerning the nature of education in the constitutional order. For…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Freedom of Speech, Student Rights, Constitutional Law
Turbulence in St. Louis County: School Transfers, Opportunity Hoarding, and the Legacy of "Brown"
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Grooms, Ain – Peabody Journal of Education, 2019
In the 1954 "Brown v. Board of Education" case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled segregated schools unconstitutional, and the process of school desegregation fell mostly to Black children. For over 35 years, Black families in St. Louis City have been using school transfers to cross boundaries in order to send their children to higher…
Descriptors: Suburban Schools, School Districts, Desegregation Litigation, School Desegregation
Ideological Repositioning: Race, Social Justice, and Promise
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Hodge, Samuel R. – Quest, 2014
In this paper, I engage in discourse centrally located in the ideology of race in the United States of America juxtaposed to social justice with promise for tomorrow in higher education and beyond. I assert that social justice in kinesiology requires that once hired, retaining, securing tenured status, and promoting faculty of color means having…
Descriptors: Physical Education, African American Teachers, Social Justice, Race
The Influence of the Cold War on the Racial Desegregation of American Schools
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Watras, Joseph – American Educational History Journal, 2013
With the rise of the Cold War, federal officials in the United States sought to end the racial segregation that the U.S. Supreme Court had accepted in the 1896 decision of "Plessy v. Ferguson." Although the reforms began with changes in the armed services, they moved to reduce racial segregation in schools. Many forces brought about the…
Descriptors: United States History, Conflict, Racial Segregation, School Desegregation
An End of Innocence: African-American High School Protest in the 1960s and 1970s
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Rury, John L.; Hill, Shirley – History of Education, 2013
This paper considers African-American student protests in secondary schools during the 1960s and early 1970s. Taking a national perspective, it charts a growing sense of independence and militancy among black students as they made the schools a focal point of activism. Activist students challenged established civil rights organisations on a…
Descriptors: Educational History, African American Students, African American Teachers, Principals
Evolving Interpretations of Educational Equity and Students with Disabilities
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McLaughlin, Margaret J. – Exceptional Children, 2010
The education of students with disabilities in today's schools is being shaped by 2 very powerful laws: the 2004 Individuals With Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA 2004) and the 2001 Elementary and Secondary Education Act (Title I, No Child Left Behind Act). These 2 laws are changing our conceptions about special education. Both of…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Special Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation