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Torrie K. Edwards – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation traces the way hair is framed in judicial texts about dress code policy in the U.S. between 1969 and 2023. Using 46 court cases from district, appellate, state supreme, and federal supreme courts, the study first considers how dress code is brought to courts over these 54 years, and the kinds of legal claims made in these cases.…
Descriptors: Dress Codes, Student Rights, Gender Discrimination, Educational Legislation
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Greenleaf, Cynthia L.; Hinchman, Kathleen – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2009
This commentary invites Americans to confront what these authors view as the travesty that typically passes for literacy instruction for older youth in the United States who struggle with reading. In too many U.S. schools, these young people face an impoverished curriculum, receiving literacy instruction that is ill suited to their needs, or…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Reading Difficulties, Secondary School Curriculum, Teaching Methods
Williams, James D. – Cross Reference: A Journal of Public Policy and Multicultural Education, 1978
This article charts the relationship between politics, racial struggle, and the Black press. The decline of interest in Black news among the White media is cited as evidence of the need for Blacks to hold more decision making positions. (GC)
Descriptors: Black History, Blacks, Change Strategies, Decision Making