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Court rules that teachers' First Amendment Rights stop at the school door
Nov 02 2010
English teacher Shelley Evans-Marshall gave her ninth-grade class an assignment featuring the American Library Association's list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books - and lost her job because of it.
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio last week dismissed her lawsuit, ruling that a school district's right to control its curriculum outweighs a teacher's First Amendment right to choose her materials and her teaching methods.
A bold, mesmerizing novel about the woman known as "Typhoid Mary," the first known healthy carrier of typhoid fever in the burgeoning metropolis of early twentieth century New York.
Z, the novel about the life of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald is at points charming and; like another reviewer, I kept thinking of the movie, "Midnight...
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Although heavy on the scientific details, which slowed down the story for me (OK, I admit, I was one of those liberal arts majors who skipped out on...
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Loved this book. Magical, quirky, enchanting I could go on. All books do not have to be literary fiction, sometimes it is just so comforting to read...
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British Parliament asks Amazon to clarify why it pays $9 million in income tax on $23 billion of UK sales.(May 20 2013) Amazon will be called back to give further evidence to members of the British Parliament "to clarify how its activities in the U.K. justify its low corporate...
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