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Engel v. Vitale
Whether school-sponsored nondenominational prayer in public schools violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. -
4 Kent State Students Killed by Troops
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Teach Your Own: A Hopeful Path for Education
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Wallace v. Jaffree
This case involved a dispute over Alabama statutes that by stages allowed voluntary prayer lead by public school teachers. The District Court found nothing wrong with the first statute that called for a one minute period of silence for meditation in all public schools
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Multicultural Education: Transformative Knowledge and Action
Essential to continued growth in the field of multicultural education is the documentation of its historical roots and its linkages to the current school reform movement. James Banks demonstrates the ways in which the current multicultural education movement is both connected to and a continuation of earlier movements, both scholarly and activist, designed to promote empowerment, knowledge transformation, liberation, and human freedom in US society -
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the American Association on Mental Retardation (AAMR) became the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
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Safe from shutdown: Obama signs trillion-dollar budget
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a federal judge in Texas signs a temporary injunction allowing schools to opt out of the above transgender bathroom directive.
A federal judge in Texas has blocked the Obama administration's order that requires public schools to let transgender students use the bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their chosen gender identity.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/texas-judge-temporarily-blocks-obamas-transgender-directive-41569471
