chapter 10

Due Process

following established legal procedures

Nonfeasance

when an individual fails to perform a legal duty

Buckley Amendment

A federal law, also called the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, that describes who may have access to a student's educational records

Lawrence Kohlberg

Famous for his theory of moral development in children

Copyright Law

Makes it illegal to copy and distribute protected works without the permission of the author or the author's representative.

Character Education Programs

Programs which teach students about different positive character traits and how to apply them to their lives.

Goss v. Lopez (1975)

Students are entitled to certain due process rights.

Engel v. Vitale

The 1962 Supreme Court decision holding that state officials violated the First Amendment when they wrote a prayer to be recited by New York's schoolchildren.

Pickering v. Board of Education

The Supreme Court ruled that a public school teacher has a First Amendment right to write a letter to the editor criticizing the school board without fear of retaliation.

Tinker v. Des Moines

The case that ruled that students do not lose Constitutional rights when they entered the building but they can be limited if they cause a disruption

academic freedom

The freedom of teachers to teach about an issue or to use a source in teaching without fear of penalty, reprisal, or harassment.

Misfeasance

The performance of a lawful act in an illegal or improper manner

Title IX of Education Act of 1972

Title IX is a comprehensive federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basic on .race, age, or sex.

Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier

U.S. Supreme Court case that determined that the First Amendment does not protect all types of student speech in school

Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier

a kids do a newspaper for schools club. type of the teachers need to check by it.

zero-tolerance policy

a policy that makes no exceptions for anybody for any reason

malfeasance

an act that can't be done lawfully regardless how is performance

Fourteenth Amendment

made "all persons born or naturalized in the United States" citizens of the country

child abuse

physical, emotional, or sexual mistreatment of a child.

values clarification

process by which people come to understand their own values and value system

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

prohibits employment agencies, employers, and unions from discriminating against applicants and employees on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex.

Franklin v. Gwinnett county pubic school

that students who are subjected to sexual harassment in public schools may sue for monetary damages under Title IX of the Federal Education Amendments of 1972.

sexual harassment

the abuse of one's position of authority to force unwanted sexual demands on someone

Corporal Punishment in Schools

the teacher used a rule or other stuff to the students to not doing bad thing.