With Decision in Kahler, SCOTUS Upholds Narrowed Insanity Defense
Last Monday, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Kahler v. Kansas and upheld Kansas’s significant narrowing of the insanity […]
Amicus
What’s Happening in the NRA’s Backyard?
When gun control measures stalled at the national level, advocates took a page out of the conservative playbook: they focused
This Week in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties: February 17, 2020
This week, the White House released its legal justification for the Soleimani strike, pressured the DOJ to lower its own sentencing recommendation for Roger Stone, lost a court battle over a Medicaid work requirement, and deployed tactical Border Patrol agents to sanctuary jurisdictions across the country. A new lawsuit challenges roadblocks to insurance coverage for abortion, while criminal justice reform measures in California and New York are implemented and North Dakota tribes achieve a voting rights victory. And, a New York Times reporter asks, “is this the end of privacy as we know it?”
Amicus, Education & Youth, Labor and Employment
Unpaid Internships Continued
The obvious fact that unpaid internships create opportunities for exploitation raises the equally obvious question of how exploitation should be defined.
Amicus, Education & Youth
Measuring Creativity in the Public Schools
Though there may be much to be said for the axiom that creativity can’t be quantified, at least three states have been working to develop something akin to an objective measure of imagination.
Amicus, Education & Youth, Freedom of Expression
Taking Cheap Shots at Occupy Harvard
On Monday, November 28, a group of 20 to 30 Occupy Harvard protesters attempted to disrupt a Goldman Sachs recruiting session being hosted by Harvard’s Office of Career Services. Three days later, the Crimson ran an editorial reprimanding the protesters’ behavior.
Amicus, Education & Youth, Poverty and Economic Justice
New York Nonprofit Builds Calm in the Classroom
Turnaround for Children, a New York-based nonprofit, has been partnering directly with high-poverty schools and districts to transform the physical and emotional environments in which children spend the school day.
Amicus, Education & Youth
Is Necessity the Mother of Advertisements?
In an attempt to offset fiscal woes, Pennsylvania’s Pennsbury School District recently contracted to allow extensive advertising in its schools. The ads—the district plans to install over 200—will be located on the walls, floors, lockers, and cafeteria tables of Pennsbury’s 16 primary, middle, and high schools.
Amicus, Education & Youth, Poverty and Economic Justice
High School-College Hybrids on the Way in Chicago
A significant part of the challenge of preventing “at-risk” high school students from dropping out involves providing these students with
Amicus, Education & Youth
Learning Time: Up the Dosage?
Recent years have seen a growing emphasis on the notion that America’s children should be spending more time in school. The idea that more schooling will enhance learning outcomes bears an awkward resemblance to the notion that additional money will amplify happiness; both points of view seem to reflect an unwillingness to work creatively with the material already at hand.