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The Courts: Order in the Classroom
There has been in recent years a surprisingly broad but little noticed shift in judicial thinking about public schoolsโan affirmation of schoolsโ right to define the intellectual and moral...
Abandoning Children to Their Rights
In 1989 the United Nations General Assembly adopted, without a vote, a new Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Within a year, 130 nations had accepted the...