Linda Haushalter

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Cultural Diversity and Schooling

• By
• Linda Haushalter

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Articles

• Decisions That Have Shaped U.S. Education
• Educating African American Children Credibility
  at a Crossroads
• The Evils of Public Schools
• Can Every Child Learn?
• School Vouchers Showdown
• Meeting the Challenges of the Urban High School

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Decisions That Have Shaped U.S. Education

• Equality in Education
• Freedom of Expression
• Student Discipline and School Safety
• The Role of Religion in U.S. Education

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Equality in Education

• Desegregation-
• Brown Vs. Board of Education (1854)
• Per-pupil Expenditure-
• San Antonio Independent School District Vs.
  Rodriguez (1973)
• Students with Limited English Proficiency-
• Lau Vs. Nichols (1974)
• Special Education-
• Board of Education Vs. Rowley (1982)
• Accommodating Disabilities-
• School Board Vs. Arline (1987)

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Freedom of Expression

• Saluting the Flag
• Education Vs. Barnette (1943)
• Student Speech
• Tinker Vs. Des Moines Independent Community
  School District (1969)
• Censorship
• Hazelwood School District Vs. Kuhlmeier (1988)
• Teachers Speech
• Mt. Healthy City School District Vs. Doyle (1977)
• School Libraries
• Board of Education, Island Trees Union Free
  School District No. 26 Vs. Pico (1982)

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Student Discipline and School Safety

• Student Suspensions and Expulsions
• Goss Vs. Lopez (1975)
• Corporal Punishment
• Ingraham Vs. Wright (1977)
• Searches of Students
• New Jersey Vs. T.L.O. (1985)
• Random Drug Tests
• Vernonia School District 47J Vs. Acton (1995)
• Sexual Harassment
• Franklin Vs. Gwinnett County Public Schools
  (1992)
• Gebser Vs. Lago Vista Independent School District
  (1998) / Davis Vs. Monroe County Road of
  Education (1999)
• Disruptive Students in Special Education
• Honig Vs. Doe (1988)

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The Role of Religion in US Education

• Government Aid to Religious Schools
• Lemon Vs. Kurtzman (1971)
• Prayer at School Events
• Lee Vs. Weisman (1992)

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Educating African American Children Credibility
at a Crossroads

• The overwhelming majority of teachers in America
  are white. (Kailin 1999)
• There is a disproportionate numbers of African
  American children having difficulty in school.
  (Johnson 1996)

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• The profession of color-blindness, though
  possibly well intended, is problematic and
  presents a huge blind spot in orientation when
  educating African American children. (McIntosh
  1989)
• Why do Black youths, in particular, think about
  themselves in terms of Race? (Tatum 1997)
• African American children view collective growth
  and achievement above and beyond individual
  success.

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The Evils of Public Schools

• He who Passively Accepts evil (is) as much
  involved in it as he who helps perpetuate it.
• He who accepts evil without protesting against
  it is really cooperating with it.
• -Martin Luther King

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Can Every Child Learn?

• Yes, most (but not all).
• If children are abused, scared, sick, hungry or
  without love and security
• forget about it!

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School Vouchers Showdown

• Do they improve students educational
  performance?
• Do they hurt Public Schools?
• Do they unconstitutionally subsidize religious
  schools?

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Meeting the Challenges of the Urban High School

• Remember it takes a village to raise a child
• Engage Parents!

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If we all work together Teachers
Students Parents Government Society we will
reach the stars help children reach THEIR
potential!