ChildLaw and Education Institute

 

Volume 2009
The Loyola University Chicago
ChildLaw and Education Institute Forum

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The Limits of Public Education

 

1. Amy McCarthy An Endorsement of Charter School Education
2. Conor Fleming Regulating Home Schooling: Can We Protect Children From
Their Parents' Martyrdom?

 

The Right to an Education and the Equitable Distribution of Educational Resources

 

3. Kim Kocek The Aftermath of San Antonio v. Rodriguez: Arguments in Favor of a Fundamental Right to a Minimally Adequate Education in the 21st Century
4. Melissa Kelley Equal Footing Requires Action Before Their First Step
5. Margaret Egan Mind the Gap: Reforming the Illinois Education Funding Formula

 

Federal Standards and Testing

 

6. Megan Malone A Call for Action: Revamping Standardized Testing to Grant Children Their Fundamental Right to a Fair and Equitable Education

7. Bradley R.
    Gabriel

 The No Child Left Behind Act: The Making and Remediating of Education and National Unity

 

Religion and Public Education

 

8. Amanda McBride At the Right Hand of Our Fathers: Religion's Place in Today's Public School Classrooms
9. Mona Elgindy The End of an Era to Keep Religious Identity Out of Public Schools
10. Lauren Rafferty School Vouchers After President Obama
11. Dominique
      LeVert		 Embracing Religious Institutions Operating Charter Schools

 

The Rights and Responsibilities of Students

 

12. Kathleen
      Herbster		 Sticks and Stones: Student Speech in the Internet Era
13. Michael Baniak Student Internet Speech and the First Amendment in the Age of My Space and Facebook
14. Lauren Cherry What to do About Sexting: Student  Speech in the Twenty-First Century
15. Simon Hotz Campus Gun Control: Historical Bases for Second Amendment Rights and the Suggestive Force of a School's First Amendment Restrictions
16. Maura Bahu The Fourth Amendment: No Place for Strip Searches in Schools
17. Jeanine Oury Strip Searches Strip Good Schools of Their Titles
18. Tchedly Desire The School's Right to Search Students: Where do we Draw the Line?

 

Racial and Gender Equality in Educational Institutions

 

19. Amy
      Hammerman		 Diversity in Lower Education as a Compelling Governmental Interest
20. Noah Hurwitz Analyzing Kennedy's Race Proxies in the Courts and in the Classroom
21. Elizabeth
      Nelson		 Integrating Schools Post-PICS
22. Aaron
      Siebert-Llera		 Self-Identity and Private Schooling: The Detrimental Effects of Public Schools on the Formation of Muslin-American Self-Identity
23. Michael
      Kravtsov		 Tracking is Inherently Unequal
24. Lauren Engel Addressing the Severe Discrimination that Young Gay People are Facing in America's Public Schools
25. Eileen
      Flaherty		 Single Sex Education in Elementary and Secondary Public Schools
26. Jacqueline
      Schultz		 Diversity in Michigan Public Universities after Grutter, Gratz, and the MCRI
27. Jonathan
      Reischl		 Taking Thomas Seriously: Using the Stigma of Affirmative Action to Advance Wholesale Education Reform

 

Students With Educational Disabilities

 

28. Mia L. Kern The Cost of a Free Appropriate Public Education: Autism in Albuquerque
29. Caitlin
      Fitzgerald		 McKay Vouchers v. the IDEA: School Choice and the Future of Special Education
30. Megan
      Morrissey		 The Transition of Children With Disabilities from the Public School System
31. Lauren Kraus The Impact of No Child Left Behind on IDEA's Guarantee of Free Appropriate Public Education for Students with Disabilities: A Critical Review of Recent Case Law
32. Christy Sicher Children Left Behind: Conflicting Special Education Legislation and Their Affect on the Increase of Children with Disabilities in the Juvenile Justice System
33. Meg Helder A New Standard for Educating Children with Disabilities: How does Rowley Align with the Current Requirements of IDEA?

 

The Rights and Responsibilities of Teachers

 

34. Emily DeYoe Alternative Teacher Certification
35. Michele Roulbot Teacher Tenure: A Life Sentence for Kids
36. Megan Gordon How to Make Traditional Tenure Systems More Flexible and Effective While Still Providing Professors with the Protections they Deserve
37. Bree Williams New York City Rubber Rooms: The Legality of Temporary Reassignment Centers in the Context of Tenured Teachers' Due Process Rights
38. Nadia Aslam School Liability in Cases of Peer Harassment

 

The Educational Environment

 

39. Ann Fenton Growing Trends: School-Based Community Gardens as a Grassroots Response to Childhood Obesity

 

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