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In April 2012 the Board of Regents decided to formally consider a proposal that would eliminate Regents Examination in Global History and Geography as a graduation requirement for some students beginning September 2013. [29] [30] Global History and Geography is the most frequently failed examination. Under the proposal, students would be able ...
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, 438 U.S. 265 (1978), was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that involved a dispute over whether preferential treatment for minorities could reduce educational opportunities for whites without violating the Constitution.
Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421 (1962), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that it is unconstitutional for state officials to compose an official school prayer and encourage its recitation in public schools, due to violation of the First Amendment. [1]
Evans is a Regents Professor Emeritus in the history department at the University of Minnesota. [6] She has also worked as the editor of Feminist Studies and a consulting editor of the Journal of American History. [7] She received her B.A. in 1966 and her M.A. in 1968, both from Duke University. [8]
Thirty-nine states have boards of regents to govern their public university systems. [3] The Regents of the University of California govern the University of California system, with one exception: the original endowment that allowed for the creation of UC's Hastings College of the Law stipulated that it could not be governed by the regents ...
Regents Examinations: Regents North Carolina: North Carolina Department of Public Instruction: End of Course Tests (Grades 9-12) EOCs Ohio: Ohio State Board of Education: Ohio Graduation Test: OGT [6] Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Department of Education : Keystone Exam: South Carolina: South Carolina Department of Education: High School ...
Hamilton v. Regents of the University of California, 293 U.S. 245 (1934), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court upheld the "right of California to force its university students to take classes in military training" and reiterated that "[i]nstruction in military science is not instruction in the practice or tenets of a religion."
A People's History of the United States; Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and the Political History of the United States; Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States; The History of the United States of America 1801–1817; Oxford History of the United States; The Penguin History of the United States of America ...