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Equality/Equal Protection
Equal Justice
Curricula & teaching activities below are targeted for Upper Elementary - Secondary
Audiences. Each is also available from the American Bar Association Publications Dept.,
P.O. Box 10892, Chicago, IL 60610-0892, Tel. 800-285-2221
- "Diversity and the Law" by Gayle Mertz (1995)
Cost: $10.00 plus shipping/handling; PC#497-0077
Younger students learn about the concepts of minority and majority as they apply to
people and legal doctrine and older students learn about "separate but equal"
and court decisions and legislation that define the constitutionality of classifying
students for enrollment in public schools. Includes background materials, lesson plans,
worksheets, transparency masters, puzzles, and more.
- "Equal Protection Under Law: Access to Public Education" by Margaret Fisher
(1995)
Cost: $10.00 plus shipping/handling; PC#497-0076
Younger students learn to identify the experience of discrimination, distinguish
between permitted and illegal discrimination, and argue for and against providing a free
public education to children of illegal aliens. Older students analyze a case study on the
rights of children of undocumented aliens and identify the equal protection clause of the
Fourteenth Amendment. Includes background materials, lesson plans, worksheets,
transparency masters, puzzles, and more.
- "Equality" Constitutional Update
Cost: $3.00 plus shipping/handling; PC#497-0017
This collection of best material drawn from past issues of "Update on Law-Related
Education" magazine contains background articles tracing the legal history of
equality from its Constitutional origins through subsequent case law and includes
stand-alone lessons addressing compelling interest, sex discrimination, and affirmative
action
>>Organizations
>>Affirmative Action
>>Disabilities
>>Equal Justice
>>Gender Equity
>>Immigration
>>Sexual Harassment
>>Tolerance
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