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It is illegal for these to question an applicant’s age.
What are prospective employers?
100
This U.S. Supreme Court decision protected teachers’ freedom of speech to publicly express themselves as long as the statements are not malicious or intentionally inaccurate and do not disclose confidential material or hamper teaching performance.
What is Pickering v. Board of Education?
100
A child who is expelled for bringing nail clippers to school is probably feeling the consequence of this.
What is a zero-tolerance policy?
100
A single moral code is taught and promoted directly and indirectly through the curriculum in this.
What is a traditional inculcation?
200
You apply for a teaching job in a school district and are directed to send in a photograph along with your application. You recognize that this violates your rights under this.
What is Title VII of the Civil Rights Act (1964)?
200
Without a license or permission, educational institutions may not keep copyrighted videotapes for more than this long.
What is 45 days?
200
This is legal in a little less than half of the states.
What is corporal punishment?
200
Having students identify their most important activities or goals is an exercise in this.
What is values clarification?
300
When a teacher’s private life is called into question by the courts, a this is often a governing principle that determines whether or not the teacher may be dismissed.
What is a “substantial disruption” of the educational process?
300
School teachers who participate in these are liable to legal sanctions in some states, but in practice, are rarely prosecuted.
What are strikes?
300
A student is quite upset with the use of special interest funds in the Congressional elections in her local district. As a protest, she attaches several corporate logos to her clothes, advertising everything from oil companies to automobiles. To the teachers and students who ask her, she explains that this is her way of protesting the influence of big business in national politics. Her right to undertake this activity was established in this Supreme Court case.
What is Tinker v. Des Moines?
300
The core attributes of moral individuals should be reinforced in the school curriculum and culture is used as an argument to support these programs.
What are character education programs?
400
The principle protecting a teacher’s right to teach without coercion, censorship, or other restrictive interference is this.
What is “academic freedom”?
400
This amendment ensures the rights of parents and guardians to access educational records.
What is the Buckley Amendment?
400
This would NOT protect the printing of an article that expresses student fears about AIDS.
What is student freedom of press?
500
Legal liability has been least firmly associated with this.
What is educational malpractice?
500
You are teaching in a school that has recently established a computer repair program. You notice that all the students in the program are male. You find out that the school has done nothing to attract females into this computer repair training, and in fact, the teacher in charge is hostile to teaching females, explaining that “they will get married, have kids, and never use what I teach them.” This federal legislation is being violated.
What is Title IX of the Education Amendments?
500
A teacher who suspects a child is the victim of child abuse has these responibilities.
What are ethical and legal responsibilities to report the suspected abuse?