Much ado about a C?

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 318-319

  Zirkel, Perry A ^a  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 37549041307     PISSN: 00317217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003172170708900420     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. The trial court's decision is unpublished and not available from the standard electronic databases in law. I obtained a copy from Jason Odeshoo (see n. 10). I obtained supplementary information in a September 2007 telephone interview with the school district's legal counsel, Robert Rosati, who also provided me with the district's appellate brief. The parents' attorney, Kevin Little, did not respond to my repeated inquiries.
2. Regents of Univ. of Michigan v. Ewing, 474 U.S. 214 (1985);
3. and Bd. of Curators, Univ. of Missouri v. Horowitz, 435 U.S. 78 (1978). Both of these decisions are within the context of medical school, not just higher education.
4. Hurd v. Hansen, 230 Fed. Appx. 692 (9th Cir. 2007).
5. For previous examples, see the series of four articles ending with Perry A. Zirkel, "The Minor Suit Awards IV," Phi Delta Kappan, June 2002, pp. 798-99;
6. see also idem, "A Case of Hyperlexis?," Phi Delta Kappan, May 2000, pp. 714-15.
7. See, for example, Las Virgenes Educ. Ass'n v. Las Virgenes Unified Sch. Dist., 102 Cal. Rptr.2d 901 (Ct. App. 2001);
8. and Eureka Teachers Ass'n v. Bd. of Educ., 244 Cal. Rptr. 240 (Ct. App. 1988);
9. cf. Dunn v. Fairfield Cmty. High Sch. Dist, 158 F.3d 962 (7th Cir. 1998) (rejection of student's substantive due process challenge).
10. For the higher education context, see, for example, Silvestri v. Texas So. Univ., 957 F. Supp. 944 (S.D. Tex. 1997);
11. Perry A. Zirkel, "Grade Expectations and Academic Freedom," Phi Delta Kappan, April 1990, pp. 643-45;
12. and idem, "Grade Expectations," Educational Record, Fall 1981, pp. 71-73.
13. Gunnar Myrdal, An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (1944; reprint, New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1996).
14. Bd. of Curators, Univ. of Missouri v. Horowitz, 435 U.S. at 89.
15. For a running account of recent relevant state statutes, including Arizona's and Georgia's protections for teachers, see the topic of "grading practices" at www.ecs.org/ecsmain.asp?page=/html/statesTerritories/ state_policy_developments.htm.
16. See, for example, Perry A. Zirkel, "Grade Inflation: High Schools' Skeleton in the Closet," Education Week, 28 March 2007, pp. 39, 30.
17. See, for example, Jason Odeshoo, "Hurd v. Hansen: A Constitutional Remedy for a Bad Grade?," at feed://edlawpolicy.typepad.com/ education_law_policy/rss.xml.