Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wolfson stated that the proposal would only apply to secondary schools, but Stephen B. Burbank, legal council to the University of Pennsylvania, said the guidelines also mention colleges as possible candidates for IRS action...
Turner's statement could be "inhibiting or embarrassing" for professors engaged in international research, Milton Katz '27, director of International Legal Studies, said yesterday...
Those who argue that the Playboy ad and the subsequent pictorial would not contribute specifically to the exploitation of women have little understanding of the realities of sexism in America. The system of sexist exploitation in America is, to be sure, less clear-cut than the regimented legal and economic structure of apartheid in South Africa--the oppression, however, is no less real. As the United States government finds it increasingly difficult to politically maintain sexist legal standards, the legal barriers to women achieving full economic and social equality with men are gradually falling. In turn, sexist attitudes...
This month a Massachusetts judge upheld the right of parents "to preserve home education" under that state's laws. But many parents of stay-at-homes find themselves enmeshed in legal controversies with local truant officers. Laws on school attendance vary widely from state to state; some permit children to enroll in school as late as age eight (Arizona) and to leave as early as age 14 (Massachusetts). In addition, some parents are asked to prove they are qualified?in some cases, professionally certifiable as teachers?before a local judge or school board...
Some parents seek to avoid legal tangles by registering their children in correspondence schools. Among the largest are the Home Study Institute of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (1,100 elementary school children, 2,000 high school level) and Baltimore's Calvert School (4,500 elementary). Calvert's home instruction is said to have started when its headmaster made up lesson packets for children kept away from school by a whooping cough epidemic...