The Edjurist Accord
Educational law scholars blogging on recent developments at the intersection of law and education.
Author: Two lawyer-blawggers: Jesulon Gibbs is an assistant professor of educational leadership at South Carolina State University; Justin Bathon is an associate instructor at Indiana University in the educational policy studies department and the owner-operator of Bathon Educational Services in Bloomington, Ind.
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Recent Posts from The Edjurist Accord
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08/15/08 - The New Role
So, I am still getting comfortable with my new faculty role, thus time is short lately. So an abbreviated version of the snippets this week. But, Mark Walsh said it was a quiet week (read…
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Thoughts on the California Home Schooling Decision
Mark Walsh and Mitchell Rubinstein have already posted that the California Appellate Court has reversed itself on the homeschooling decision that has received so much attention this past year.Here is the opinion. There were 16…
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Paddling Protection Nonsense in Indiana
Once in a while a proposal comes along that really riles me up. Today is one of those days. The current Governor of Indiana is proposing (although through campaign speak) a teacher discipline clarification act…
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Friday Snippets - 8/08/08: The Eights are Wild.
An anti-bullying bill that includes protections for homosexual and transgender students and teachers is in the New York Senate. West Virginia teachers file suit claiming they were mislead into investing their retirement dollars into bad…
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Cyberbullying Regulation and Free Speech
Here is an article out today on an off-campus student conversation about Prom and a "spoiled" girl in their school. The conversation was taped and a student posted it to YouTube. The school administrators, concerned…
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Friday Snippets - 8/01/08 - Water on Mars
Congress has passed a Reauthorization of the Higher Education Act. Here is Sen. Mike Enzi on some of the details. The President is expected to sign it. A Texas judge changes his mind and orders…
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Graduation Rate Suit in Florida Dismissed
The lawsuit brought by the ACLU of Florida against the Palm Beach County School Board for unconstitutionally low graduation rates has been dismissed at the Circuit Court level. I had earlier posted on the creativity…
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Teaching Kids to Think
So, I have been cruising all over the southern Midwest the last couple days and while on my adventures I picked up an audio copy of Fareed Zakaria's book, The Post-American World. Fabulous read (or…
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Update on Autism Remarks
Charles Fox has an update on the autism rant that outraged me last week. Apparently there has been quite a lot of backlash from the remarks and calls for the radio host to be fired.…
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Friday Snippets: 07/25/08 - The Candidates and Special Education
The transition has begun to the new site. I worked on building it some this week and it is starting to take shape quite nicely. I hope to have it up an running by about…