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Monkey Town

Ronald Kidd

When her father hatches a plan to bring publicity to their small Tennessee town by arresting a local high school teacher for teaching about evolution, the resulting 1925 Scopes trial prompts fifteen-y

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Let Me Play

Karen Blumenthal

Examines Title IX, the 1972 legislation which mandated that schools receiving federal funds could not discriminate on the basis of gender.

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Guns and Violence

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Drunk Driving

Authors give their opinions on drunk-driving laws in articles ranging from scientific reports to editorials to personal accounts.

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Legalizing Marijuana

Paul Ruschmann

Provides varying perspectives on issues related to marijuana, discussing the dangers of the drug, the enforcement of marijuana laws, and whether or not marijuana should be legalized, and looking at th

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The Facts About Marijuana

Ted Gottfried

Explains how marijuana affects the body, describes laws regarding it, and discusses medical marijuana and drug testing in schools.

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Vernonia School District V. Acton

Deborah A. Persico

Describes the 1995 Supreme Court case which held that public school officials could do mandatory drug testing if they showed that a drug problem existed among the students, even though individual stud

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Loving V. Virginia

Karen Alonso

Explores the Supreme Court case that challenged and eventually overturned Virginia's law forbidding interracial marriages.

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Lemon V. Kurtzman

Leah Farish

Examines the case that established the answers about the use of public funds in connection with religion.

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Lau V. Nichols

Stephanie Sammartino McPherson

The Lau case began the requirement that schools find and imlement the best approach for teaching non-English-speaking students.

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