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We the Students : Supreme Court Cases for and about Students / Jamin B. Raskin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Raskin, Jamin B., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Students--Legal status, laws, etc--United States--Cases.
- Students.
- Students--Civil rights--United States--Cases.
- Educational law and legislation--United States--Cases.
- Educational law and legislation.
- Genre:
- Casebooks (Law)
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (377 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- Fourth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE Publications, Inc., [2015]
- Summary:
- This unique reference has introduced countless students to the field of legal studies by studying Supreme Court issues that directly affect young people. For this fourth edition, new Supreme Court cases are incorporated on topics like strip searches at school, the use of race in school admissions, student protest or religious speech, and the constitutional implications surrounding trends like home schooling and rising gun violence in America's schools.
- Contents:
- "We the people" : our constitution and courts
- Student voices and supreme court choices : the First Amendment and speech at school
- Freedom of the student press: all the news (the school
- Sees) fit to print
- The wall of separation between church and school
- The Fourth Amendment: searching the student body
- The constitution and student discipline : "due process" and "cruel and unusual punishment" at school
- Eqaul protection against race discrimination : from Jim Crow segregation to multicultural democracy
- The other lines we draw at school : wealth, gender, citizenship, and sexual orientation
- Harassment in the hall, blood on the board : sexual harassment, bullying, and gun violence at school
- A healthy student body : disability, privacy, pregnancy, and sexuality.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781544359922
- 1544359926
- 9781483319452
- 1483319458
- 9781483319186
- 1483319180
- OCLC:
- 931594004
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