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Horn, Catherine L.; Marin, Patricia; Garces, Liliana M.; Miksch, Karen; Yun, John T. – Educational Policy, 2020
Different from more traditional policy-making avenues, the courts provide an antipolitical arena that does not require broad agreement from various constituents for policy enactment. Seeking to guide court decisions on these policy issues, individuals and organizations have filed "amicus" briefs that increasingly include social science…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Court Litigation, Social Science Research
Vanessa D. Miller – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This study examines the United States Supreme Court's use of social science research in Fourteenth Amendment race-based discrimination cases in professional and graduate school admissions. It discusses how the Court uses (or does not use) social science research in its interpretation of "equal protection" and "discrimination"…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Constitutional Law, Federal Courts, Equal Protection