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Book Brown v  Board of Education

    Book Details:
  • Author : James T. Patterson
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2001-03-01
  • ISBN : 0199880840
  • Pages : 318 pages

Download or read book Brown v Board of Education written by James T. Patterson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2004 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Supreme Court's unanimous decision to end segregation in public schools. Many people were elated when Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren delivered Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka in May 1954, the ruling that struck down state-sponsored racial segregation in America's public schools. Thurgood Marshall, chief attorney for the black families that launched the litigation, exclaimed later, "I was so happy, I was numb." The novelist Ralph Ellison wrote, "another battle of the Civil War has been won. The rest is up to us and I'm very glad. What a wonderful world of possibilities are unfolded for the children!" Here, in a concise, moving narrative, Bancroft Prize-winning historian James T. Patterson takes readers through the dramatic case and its fifty-year aftermath. A wide range of characters animates the story, from the little-known African Americans who dared to challenge Jim Crow with lawsuits (at great personal cost); to Thurgood Marshall, who later became a Justice himself; to Earl Warren, who shepherded a fractured Court to a unanimous decision. Others include segregationist politicians like Governor Orval Faubus of Arkansas; Presidents Eisenhower, Johnson, and Nixon; and controversial Supreme Court justices such as William Rehnquist and Clarence Thomas. Most Americans still see Brown as a triumph--but was it? Patterson shrewdly explores the provocative questions that still swirl around the case. Could the Court--or President Eisenhower--have done more to ensure compliance with Brown? Did the decision touch off the modern civil rights movement? How useful are court-ordered busing and affirmative action against racial segregation? To what extent has racial mixing affected the academic achievement of black children? Where indeed do we go from here to realize the expectations of Marshall, Ellison, and others in 1954?

Book School Law and Common School Decisions

Download or read book School Law and Common School Decisions written by Illinois and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Schoolhouse Gate

    Book Details:
  • Author : Justin Driver
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2019-08-06
  • ISBN : 0525566961
  • Pages : 578 pages

Download or read book The Schoolhouse Gate written by Justin Driver and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice An award-winning constitutional law scholar at the University of Chicago (who clerked for Judge Merrick B. Garland, Justice Stephen Breyer, and Justice Sandra Day O’Connor) gives us an engaging and alarming book that aims to vindicate the rights of public school stu­dents, which have so often been undermined by the Supreme Court in recent decades. Judicial decisions assessing the constitutional rights of students in the nation’s public schools have consistently generated bitter controversy. From racial segregation to un­authorized immigration, from antiwar protests to compul­sory flag salutes, from economic inequality to teacher-led prayer—these are but a few of the cultural anxieties dividing American society that the Supreme Court has addressed in elementary and secondary schools. The Schoolhouse Gate gives a fresh, lucid, and provocative account of the historic legal battles waged over education and illuminates contemporary disputes that continue to fracture the nation. Justin Driver maintains that since the 1970s the Supreme Court has regularly abdicated its responsibility for protecting students’ constitutional rights and risked trans­forming public schools into Constitution-free zones. Students deriving lessons about citizenship from the Court’s decisions in recent decades would conclude that the following actions taken by educators pass constitutional muster: inflicting severe corporal punishment on students without any proce­dural protections, searching students and their possessions without probable cause in bids to uncover violations of school rules, random drug testing of students who are not suspected of wrongdoing, and suppressing student speech for the view­point it espouses. Taking their cue from such decisions, lower courts have upheld a wide array of dubious school actions, including degrading strip searches, repressive dress codes, draconian “zero tolerance” disciplinary policies, and severe restrictions on off-campus speech. Driver surveys this legal landscape with eloquence, highlights the gripping personal narratives behind landmark clashes, and warns that the repeated failure to honor students’ rights threatens our basic constitutional order. This magiste­rial book will make it impossible to view American schools—or America itself—in the same way again.

Book Common School Laws of Pennsylvania

Download or read book Common School Laws of Pennsylvania written by Pennsylvania and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Report of the State Commissioner of Common Schools  to the Governor of the State of Ohio  for the Year

Download or read book Annual Report of the State Commissioner of Common Schools to the Governor of the State of Ohio for the Year written by Ohio. Office of the State Commissioner of Common Schools and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Common School Law for Common School Teachers

Download or read book Common School Law for Common School Teachers written by Charles William Bardeen and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-03-09 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

Book Report of the Superintendent of Common Schools of Pennsylvania

Download or read book Report of the Superintendent of Common Schools of Pennsylvania written by Pennsylvania Department of Common Schools and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Barron s Guide to Law Schools

Download or read book Barron s Guide to Law Schools written by Elliott M. Epstein and published by Woodbury, N.Y. : Barron's Educational Series. This book was released on 1983 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book School Laws and Common School Decisions of the State of Illinois

Download or read book School Laws and Common School Decisions of the State of Illinois written by and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book School Laws of Pennsylvania

Download or read book School Laws of Pennsylvania written by Pennsylvania and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Report of the Normal  Model  and Common Schools in Upper Canada for the Year

Download or read book Annual Report of the Normal Model and Common Schools in Upper Canada for the Year written by Upper Canada. Chief Superintendent of Schools and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report of the Superintendent of Common Schools of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania  for the School Year Ending

Download or read book Report of the Superintendent of Common Schools of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for the School Year Ending written by Pennsylvania. Department of Common Schools and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Address Upon Education and Common Schools

Download or read book An Address Upon Education and Common Schools written by James Henry and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-03-08 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.

Book The School Laws of Michigan

Download or read book The School Laws of Michigan written by Michigan and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book School Laws of Illinois  as Amended February 16  1865  with Official and Judicial Decisions in Relation to Common Schools

Download or read book School Laws of Illinois as Amended February 16 1865 with Official and Judicial Decisions in Relation to Common Schools written by Illinois and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: