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Of Student Unrest and Civil Rights: A History of the 1960 Alabama State College Sit-In Movement and the Demise of "In Loco Parentis"
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Kouri Szvad Allen – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This study discusses the student activism that led to the legal case that established due process rights for students at state-funded colleges and universities. In 1960, Alabama State College students organized a sit-in demonstration against Jim Crow segregation and subsequently challenged their expulsion from the college for taking part in the…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Behavior, Activism, Educational History
Continuous Improvement Monitoring: An Analysis of State Special Education Compliance Procedures
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Blake, Barbara Richmond – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this policy analysis was to examine the responses of selected states to the special education monitoring requirements of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 2004 (IDEA) with particular attention paid to the years after this most recent reauthorization. This study examined the legislative and litigative history of…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Special Education, Civil Rights, Statistical Analysis
Suspect until Proven Guilty a Problematization of State Dossier Systems via Two Case Studies: The United States and China
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Farrall, Kenneth N. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This dissertation problematizes the "state dossier system" (SDS): the production and accumulation of personal information on citizen subjects exceeding the reasonable bounds of risk management. SDS--comprising interconnecting subsystems of records and identification--damage individual autonomy and self-determination, impacting not only…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Social Systems, Risk Management