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Court Innocence.
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Sherwood, O. Peter – Society, 1990
Examines the sources of legal policy challenged by critics of the Committee on the General Aptitude Test Battery report. Indicates solid legal precedent for "burden shifting" to the employer when employment practice adversely affects a protected class. Finds that critics attack what is simply a description of established social policy.…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Civil Rights Legislation, Employment Practices, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
Tenure and Employment Contracts: Evolving Standards for Principals. A Legal Memorandum.
Buckner, Kermit – 2000
Decision makers in education frequently identify tenure laws as a barrier to improving student achievement. Many principals believe statutes and case law adequately protect employees, and join others calling for modifications in tenure policies. The inadequate number of qualified applicants for principal positions is a national problem that…
Descriptors: Administrators, Contracts, Due Process, Employer Employee Relationship
Government and Campus: Federal Regulation of Religiously Affiliated Higher Education.
Gaffney, Edward McGlynn, Jr.; Moots, Philip R. – 1982
Federal regulation of church-related colleges and universities was studied. Usable responses were received from 210 of 800 church-related institutions concerning the role of religion in everyday life of the institutions and the particular problems created for them by federal regulation. A legal analysis is presented of the major problems that…
Descriptors: Church Related Colleges, Civil Rights, College Admission, Compliance (Legal)
Children in the Workforce: Setting Our Priorities. A Report.
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Hartnett, Thomas F. – 1988
This report examines the issue of child labor and makes recommendations for changes in New York's child labor laws. It reviews the relationship of child labor to education, the relationship of child labor to social development, child labor and workplace safety, and the role of young workers in the economy. It concludes that simply relaxing child…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Labor, Compliance (Legal), Employer Employee Relationship
National Clearinghouse on Transition from School Newsletter. Vol. 2. No. 3, Part 1.
Anderson, D. S.; Blakers, C. – National Clearinghouse on Transition from School Newsletter, 1983
This part of the Australian newsletter from the National Clearinghouse on the Transition from School to Work is organized into eight sections. Following a description of the clearinghouse in the first section, the newsletter contains two sections of brief descriptions of current research projects and news items. In the fourth section, three books…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adolescents, Adults, Annotated Bibliographies
The Law of Higher Education 1980.
Kaplin, William A. – 1980
Designed to be used either independently or as a companion to "The Law of Higher Education" (1978), this book serves as a reference to current legal issues, as well as to primary and secondary materials concerning higher education law. Part One, Overview of Postsecondary Education Law, examines the evolution of law relating to postsecondary…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Accrediting Agencies, Collective Bargaining, College Administration
Women as Workers.
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Barrett, Nancy S. – 1984
As increasing numbers of women make the transition from the household sector into the labor market, dramatic changes in household composition have occurred that have thrust many women into the role of provider. This new role for women has led to dramatic and rapid changes in attitudes, as well as in the institutions and laws relating to women's…
Descriptors: Day Care, Demography, Economic Change, Economic Status