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  2. Epperson v. Arkansas - Wikipedia

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    Arkansas involved the teaching of biology in a Little Rock high school. Based upon the recommendation of the school biology teachers, administrators adopted the 1965 textbook Modern Biology for the 1965–1966 school year, which contained a chapter discussing Charles Darwin and evolutionary theory, and prescribed the subject be taught to the ...

  3. McLean v. Arkansas - Wikipedia

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    McLean v. Arkansas Board of Education, 529 F. Supp. 1255 (E.D. Ark. 1982), was a 1981 legal case in the US state of Arkansas. [1]A lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas by various parents, religious groups and organizations, biologists, and others who argued that the Arkansas state law known as the Balanced Treatment for Creation-Science and ...

  4. School disturbance laws - Wikipedia

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    School disturbance laws started to become integral to school discipline in the 1990s, in response to rising fears of school violence, high-profile shootings in schools (such as the Columbine High School massacre), and passage of "zero-tolerance laws" such as the Gun-Free Schools Act of 1994, following which many more police were installed in ...

  5. High school teacher and students sue over Arkansas' ban on ...

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    A high school teacher and two students sued Arkansas on Monday over the state's ban on critical race theory and “indoctrination” in public schools, asking a federal judge to strike down the ...

  6. More schools are incorporating equity into their disciplinary ...

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    “When we saw the disproportion of suspensions between our students, we knew that that had to be addressed. We want to do right by these kids,” one superintendent said.

  7. Short on teachers? Why Arkansas is betting on its 'grow your ...

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  8. School corporal punishment in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The two scholars assert that in any other context, "the act of an adult hitting another person with a board [two feet long] (or really, of any size) would be considered assault with a weapon and would be punishable under criminal law". [15] However, some teachers and administrators [79] defend the use of corporal punishment in the classroom as ...

  9. Zero-tolerance policies in schools - Wikipedia

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    In 2014, a study of school discipline figures was conducted. It was found that suspensions and expulsions as a result of zero-tolerance policies have not reduced school disruptions. The study's author stated that "zero-tolerance approaches to school discipline are not the best way to create a safe climate for learning". [30]