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Peer reviewedTurner-Egner, Jennifer – West's Education Law Reporter, 1989
Examines two related issues: the right of teachers to select instructional materials and to select instructional methods. Court decisions indicate that materials and methods must have educational value, relevance, and suitability to the age and maturity of the students. Prior administrative approval, while not necessarily required, is beneficial.…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Decision Making
Schwartz, Arthur M. – 1986
In December 1982, James Keegstra was dismissed from his position as high school social studies teacher in a small Canadian town. Two and one-half years later Keegstra was convicted on the rarely heard criminal charge of willful promotion of hatred towards an identifiable group (Jews) through his classroom teaching. Courtroom testimony made it…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Anti Semitism, Boards of Education, Court Litigation
