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  2. Lemon v. Kurtzman - Wikipedia

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    Lemon v. Kurtzman, 403 U.S. 602 (1971), was a case argued before the Supreme Court of the United States. [1] The court ruled in an 8–0 decision that Pennsylvania's Nonpublic Elementary and Secondary Education Act (represented through David Kurtzman) from 1968 was unconstitutional and in an 8–1 decision that Rhode Island's 1969 Salary Supplement Act was unconstitutional, violating the ...

  3. List of Community characters - Wikipedia

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    Troy Barnes (played by Donald Glover), (seasons 1–5) born December 4, 1989, is a former high school football star and Greendale Community College student. [8] Born and raised in Greendale, Colorado, and raised a Jehovah's Witness , Troy spent two years in fifth grade , but believed it was normal after his mother told him that everyone is "ten ...

  4. School corporal punishment in the United States - Wikipedia

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    For example, in Texas, teachers are permitted to paddle children and to use "any other physical force" to control children in the name of discipline; [15] in Alabama, the rules are more explicit: teachers are permitted to use a "wooden paddle approximately 24 inches (610 mm) in length, 3 inches (76 mm) wide and 0.5 inches (13 mm) thick." [16]

  5. Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District

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    The Tinker test, also known as the "substantial disruption" test, is still used by courts today to determine whether a school's interest to prevent disruption infringes upon students' First Amendment rights. The Court famously opined, "It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech ...

  6. Standards-based education reform in the United States

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    [11] These standards are put in place, as stated below, to help students, teachers, parents, etc. to know what is expected of a certain child at a certain age to know by the end of a unit, term, school year, etc. [12] Standards are normally published and freely available to parents and taxpayers as well as professional educators and textbook ...

  7. Zone of proximal development - Wikipedia

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    It is the range where the learner is able to perform, but only with support from a teacher or a peer with more knowledge or expertise. This person is known as the "more knowledgable other." [ 1 ] The concept was introduced, but not fully developed, by psychologist Lev Vygotsky (1896–1934) during the last three years of his life. [ 2 ]

  8. Race to the Top - Wikipedia

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    Race to the Top (R2T, RTTT or RTT) [1] was a $4.35 billion United States Department of Education competitive grant created to spur and reward innovation and reforms in state and local district K–12 education.

  9. Board of Education of the Hendrick Hudson Central School ...

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    They provided test results showing that Amy understood only about 60 percent of discussion in the classroom, while an interpreter would put her closer to 100%. They further provided results from two academic achievement tests Amy took in first grade, one administered in English and the other in American Sign Language .