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Stefkovich, Jacqueline A.; O'Brien, G. Michaele – School Business Affairs, 1996
Unlike most school-security strategies, search and seizure procedures can be largely determined by studying landmark court cases. The U.S. Supreme Court set standards for conducting school searches in "New Jersey v. T.L.O." (1985) and for drug testing student athletes in "Vernonia School District v. Acton" (1995). School…
Descriptors: Costs, Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Privacy

Ehrensal, Patricia A. – Journal for a Just and Caring Education, 1996
In examining student searches from a critical theory perspective, one considers who is being searched, who does the searching and by what authority, and how searching reinforces existing power structures. This article addresses these questions and related concepts (discipline, criminal/deviant behavior, punishment, and rehabilitation) by applying…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Court Litigation, Critical Theory, Legal Problems

Williams, Charles F. – Insights on Law & Society, 2001
Focuses on two U.S. Supreme Court cases involving unreasonable searches and seizures: (1) Kyllo v. United States, No. 99-8508; and (2) Indianapolis v. Edmond, No. 99-1030. Includes information about the first case and the basis and decision of the second case. (CMK)
Descriptors: Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Drug Legislation, Government Role

Update on Law-Related Education, 1989
"Honest Mistakes and the Exclusionary Rule" (D. Morris; J. Sullivan) outlines an activity designed to capture students' interest in drug search and seizure issues. "Drug Testing: Is It Constitutional?" (C. Hankins) presents a lesson which addresses these same issues by focusing discussion and role playing upon the…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Constitutional Law, Instructional Materials, Law Related Education

Zirkel, Perry A. – Journal of Law and Education, 1995
Comments on an article in the Summer 1992 issue of this journal (EJ 454 315) in which Professor J. M. Sanchez examined 18 decisions regarding student searches and concluded that the "T.L.O." decision made it possible to practically expunge the Fourth Amendment from American public schools. Introduces article by Lawrence Rossow (EA 530…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Courts, Privacy

Rossow, Lawrence F. – Journal of Law and Education, 1995
In contrast with J. M. Sanchez's article in the Summer 1992 issue of this journal, suggests that the "T.L.O." decision marks the full-fledged beginning, not the virtual end, of Fourth Amendment privacy rights of students. (MLF)
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Courts, Privacy

Sachs, Henry T.; Barrett, Rowland P. – School Psychology Review, 1995
Recognizing possible seizure disorders, medication side-effects, behavioral and cognitive effects of seizures, and their treatments are important skills for school psychologists because they affect 500,000 United States school-aged children attending regular education. A knowledgeable school professional serves a critical role in integrating…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Epilepsy, Medical Services

Russo, Charles J.; Stefkovich, Jacqueline A. – NASSP Bulletin, 1998
Educators concerned about school safety have resorted to searching students, their lockers, and their possessions. These searches have led to litigation over whether the Fourth Amendment's prohibition of unreasonable searches and seizures applies to public schools. Although courts have upheld reasonable searches, administrators should carefully…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Principals, Program Implementation
Pittman, Andrew T.; Slough, Mark R. – West's Education Law Quarterly, 1996
Addresses the Fourth Amendment constitutional challenges facing high school student-athlete drug testing programs and applies the findings in the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the "Vernonia versus Acton" case, the first drug-testing case involving high school student athletes to be decided by the Court, by recommending 12 safeguards…
Descriptors: Athletes, Court Litigation, Drug Use Testing, Federal Courts
Zirkel, Perry A. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2002
Discusses federal district court decision dismissing suit brought by three Texas high school students claiming that their Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated when police, at request of administrators, entered school and rounded up, handcuffed, and detained them and 11 other students who "hung out" with a student arrested…
Descriptors: Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Federal Courts, High Schools
Tharp, Barry R. – Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews, 2004
Epileptic encephalopathies are progressive clinical and electroencephalographic syndromes where deterioration is thought to be caused by frequent seizures and abundant EEG epileptiform activity. Seizures occur in approximately 10-15% of children with pervasive developmental disorders (PDD) and 8-10% have epileptiform EEG abnormalities without…
Descriptors: Social Behavior, Autism, Seizures, Surgery
McCune, Tim – Updating School Board Policies, 1994
This article examines the role of technology in an attempt to curb school violence. Despite an increasing national focus on school violence and schools' growing desire for hardware to deal with the problem, the role of technology in making schools safer remains ill-defined and undecided. However, some educators caution that the use of technology…
Descriptors: Crime Prevention, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, School Policy
Aldridge, John S.; Wooley, John A. – 1990
Legal guidelines to help public school administrators make informed choices in situations that may require student searches are provided in this paper. The constitutional basis of the issue is first discussed, noting that school officials are not required to obtain a search warrant or to have probable cause. A review of Supreme Court decisions…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education

Delgado, Richard – Hastings Law Journal, 1974
Judicial handling of Fourth Amendment issues arising from warrantless searches of college students' housing has concentrated on the status of the student. The author points out the defects in the status theories which have been used to justify relaxed standards of protection for college students. (Editor)
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Due Process, Federal Legislation, Higher Education
Epilepsy Foundation of America, Landover, MD. – 1987
The brief guide offers information on epilepsy to teachers and other school personnel. Types of seizures are defined (e.g., simple and complex partial seizures, generalized tonic clonic seizures), and management practices in the classroom setting for each type of seizure are described. Signs indicating that a seizure requires immediate medical…
Descriptors: Drug Therapy, Elementary Education, Epilepsy, Mainstreaming