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XIV, Grutter v. Bollinger. Fisher v. University of Texas, 570 U.S. 297 (2013), also known as Fisher I (to distinguish it from the 2016 case), [1] is a United States Supreme Court case concerning the affirmative action admissions policy of the University of Texas at Austin. The Supreme Court voided the lower appellate court's ruling in favor of ...
University of North Carolina (2023) Fisher v. University of Texas, 579 U.S. 365 (2016), also known as Fisher II (to distinguish it from the 2013 case), [1][2][3][4] is a United States Supreme Court case which held that the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit correctly found that the University of Texas at Austin 's undergraduate admissions ...
Distance education, also known as distance learning, is the education of students who may not always be physically present at school, [ 1 ][ 2 ] or where the learner and the teacher are separated in both time and distance. [ 3 ] Traditionally, this usually involved correspondence courses wherein the student corresponded with the school via mail.
Hopwood v. Texas, 78 F.3d 932 (5th Cir. 1996), [ 1 ] was the first successful legal challenge to a university's affirmative action policy in student admissions since Regents of the University of California v. Bakke. [ 2 ] In Hopwood, four white plaintiffs who had been rejected from University of Texas at Austin 's School of Law challenged the ...
e. Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, 400 F. Supp. 2d 707 (M.D. Pa. 2005) [1] was the first direct challenge brought in the United States federal courts testing a public school district policy that required the teaching of intelligent design (ID), ultimately found by the court to not be science. [2][3] In October 2004, the Dover Area ...
Online learning involves courses offered by primary institutions that are 100% virtual. Online learning, or virtual classes offered over the internet, is contrasted with traditional courses taken in a brick-and-mortar school building. It is a development in distance education that expanded in the 1990s with the spread of the commercial Internet ...
But several women in the forefront of the fight for reproductive freedom say the high-profile, and tragic, case of Kate Cox and her inability to obtain a legal abortion in Texas, despite her ...
A massive open online course (MOOC / muːk /) or an open online course is an online course aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the Web. [1] In addition to traditional course materials, such as filmed lectures, readings, and problem sets, many MOOCs provide interactive courses with user forums or social media discussions to ...