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Sanders, Steve – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
Gregory A. Love, then a student at Morehouse College, in Atlanta, was beaten in 2002 with a baseball bat by a fellow student in a dormitory shower after Love made what his attacker perceived as a homosexual advance. The attacker was later convicted of aggravated assault and battery. Love sued Morehouse, arguing that the institution was liable for…
Descriptors: School Safety, Court Litigation, Homosexuality, Social Bias
Penfield, Carole – Executive Educator, 1993
U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year that students who have been sexually harassed by teachers may recover money damages against school districts and administrators. Article suggests to avoid lawsuits, including establishing and announcing clear-cut policy, educating teachers to recognize sexual harassment behaviors, requiring student complaints to…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Legal Problems, Prevention
Coomer, Jane Y. – Principal, 1993
Describes Georgia principal's efforts to integrate student with AIDS into her school community. Coomer's plan succeeded because few people knew boy's identity, teachers were willing to accept child as any other, and an educational program effectively briefed staff and parents. Three years later, child is articulate, hard working, but sick, and…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Administrator Responsibility, Elementary Education, Helping Relationship
Naugle, Helen H. – 1977
To assure that students graduating from the institutions of higher education in Georgia possess basic academic literacy, an essay test was devised to provide system-wide information on the status of student competence in the areas of reading and writing and to identify those students who do not attain the expected levels of competence. The…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, English Instruction, Essay Tests
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Ambrose, Charles M. – Review of Higher Education, 1990
A study sought to clarify the meaning and use of "academic freedom" in public higher education through a survey of administrators, department heads, and college faculty in Georgia public institutions of higher education. It is felt that clarification of the term should reduce potential for conflict in faculty and institutional rights and…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Administrator Attitudes, College Faculty, Definitions
Georgia State Dept. of Education, Atlanta. Office of Planning and Development. – 1983
The criteria listed in this manual are designed to evaluate teacher education programs in Georiga colleges that voluntarily agree to meet these standards. The standards were designed so that each institution has the opportunity to reflect its philosophy in programs offered, since most of the criteria reflect broad experiences that should be…
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Higher Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Program Evaluation
Georgia State Dept. of Education, Atlanta. – 2000
Intended for evaluation of local compliance with special education federal and state legal requirements, this compliance review document includes both the compliance requirements and the criteria by which compliance is determined during the onsite compliance review of Georgia local school systems and state-operated programs. Each legal requirement…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Compliance (Legal), Confidentiality, Disabilities