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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chronology -- 1. Discrimination and Civil Rights: An Overview -- 2. Public Schools cannot be Segregated Based on Race -- 3. Brown v. Board of Education Did not End Discrimination in Education -- 4. A Man Recounts the Impact of Brown v. Board of Education on his Childhood and Education -- 5. Schools Must Provide Equal Educational Opportunities to Students of All Nationalities -- 6. Bilingual Education Programs Fail to Adequately Educate Students in America -- 7. Universities cannot Employ Racial Quota Systems to Ensure Diversity -- 8. Universities can Utilize Affirmative Action Admissions Policies to Promote Diversity -- 9. A Man Who Experienced Racial Discrimination Explains Why He Supports Affirmative Action -- 10. Definitions of Adulthood should be the Same for Both Men and Women -- 11. Women should be Allowed in Combat Roles in the US Military -- 12. States cannot Enact Laws Denying Civil Rights Protection to Homosexuals -- 13. States should Ban the Use of Gay Conversion Therapy on Minors -- 14. Private Organizations do not Always Have to Comply with Antidiscrimination Laws -- 15. Organizations should not be Able to Discriminate on the Basis of Sexual Orientation -- 16. A Gay Man Describes How Life for Homosexual Teens Has Changed Since his Youth -- Organizations to Contact -- For Further Reading -- Index -- Back Cover

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chronology -- 1. Reforming Juvenile Justice -- 2. Juvenile Offenders Must be Granted Due Process Rights Under the Fourteenth Amendment -- 3. Juvenile Criminal Proceedings should Restore Focus on Minors' Due Process Rights by Returning to Standards Set in In re Gault -- 4. Neither the Sixth nor Fourteenth Amendment Guarantees a Juvenile Offender the Right to a Trial by Jury -- 5. The Withholding of Jury Trials from Juvenile Offenders is Outdated in a More Punitive Juvenile Justice System -- 6. Juveniles should be Tried As Adults When They Have Committed Violent Crimes -- 7. Juveniles should not be Tried or Sentenced As Adults -- 8. The Mother of a Son Incarcerated in an Adult Prison Tells Why the System Fails Young People -- 9. Rates of Juvenile Incarceration should be Reduced -- 10. A Woman Who Spent Time in a Youth Detention Facility Recounts the Poor Treatment She Received There -- 11. Juveniles should not be Exempted from the Death Penalty As a Group, but Judged on an Individual Basis -- 12. Sentencing a Juvenile Offender to the Death Penalty Violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments -- 13. Minors should be Sentenced to Life in Prison Without Parole Under Certain Circumstances -- 14. It is Unconstitutional to Sentence Minors to Life in Prison Without Parole for Crimes Less than Homicide -- 15. A Prisoner Explains How He Has Grown to Understand the Significance of His Crime -- 16. A Mother of a Murder Victim Argues That Minors should not be Sentenced to Life Without Parole -- 17. The Sister of a Murder Victim Urges Legislators not to Abolish the Life Without Parole Sentence for Juvenile Murderers -- Organizations to Contact -- For Further Reading -- Index -- Back Cover

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chronology -- 1. A State Cannot Require Parental Consent for a Minor's Abortion -- 2. States should have the Right to Require Parental Consent Before a Minor's Abortion -- 3. Parental Consent can be Required Before a Minor's Abortion can be Performed -- 4. No Choice for Teens -- 5. Parental Consent Laws Protect the Health of Minors -- 6. Parents Fault Parental Consent Laws for Their Daughter's Death After an Unsafe Abortion -- 7. Minors have the Right to Access Contraceptives -- 8. Limiting Teens' Access to Contraception Unless They Obtain Parental Consent Puts Them at Risk -- 9. A Teen Decides to Seek Contraception Without Talking to Her Parents -- 10. Laws Targeting Men as the Perpetrators of Statutory Rape are Just -- 11. Laws Targeting Men as the Perpetrators of Statutory Rape are Unconstitutional -- 12. A Child Thirteen or Younger Cannot be Charged with Statutory Rape for Sex with Peers in Most Cases -- 13. Age of Consent Laws are Inconsistent and Rely on Outdated Stereotypes of Masculinity and Femininity -- 14. Sexting is Immoral and Criminal -- 15. What's the Matter with Teen Sexting? -- Organizations to Contact -- For Further Reading -- Index -- Back Cover

Cover -- Introduction -- 1. Children of Illegal Immigrants Deserve Better Educational Options -- 2. Children of Illegal Immigrants Deserve In-State College Tuition Rates -- 3. Offering In-State Tuition Rates to Illegal Immigrants Violates the Law -- 4. Lawmakers Should Pass the DREAM Act -- 5. Lawmakers Should Reject the DREAM Act -- 6. Educating Illegal Immigrant Children Yields Net Gain for the Country -- 7. Children of Illegal Immigrants Cost Taxpayers Billions Each Year -- 8. Children of Undocumented Immigrants Are Not US Citizens -- 9. Children of Undocumented Immigrants Should Be Deported -- 10. The Government Must End the Child Tax Credit for Illegal Immigrants -- 11. Children of Illegal Immigrants Struggle When Parents Are Deported -- Organizations to Contact -- Bibliography -- Index

Discusses the global financial crisis of 2008-2009, including Wall Street's role in the crisis, if Wall Street requires government regulation or legal reform, and if financial reform legislation would be effective in the future

Presents a spectrum of viewpoints on topics significant to modern Africa, covering economics, foreign aid, AIDS, and relations with the United States

Intro -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chronology -- 1. The Disability Rights Movement: An Overview -- 2. Mentally Disabled Individuals Must Receive Minimum Levels of Care Within Institutions -- 3. Mandating Minimum Levels of Care Could Impede Care in Institutions -- 4. States Cannot Hold Individuals in an Institution if They Do Not Present a Threat to Themselves or -- 5. The Court's Ruling on Institutionalization of the Mentally Disabled Lacks Strength -- 6. A Man Wrongly Held in an Institution Recounts His Life and His Struggle to Be Released -- 7. Individuals with Mental Disabilities Have the Right to Live in a Community Instead of an Institut -- 8. Students Have the Right to Receive a Free Public Education Regardless of Disability or Cost -- 9. The Reauthorized IDEA Should Mandate an Equal, Integrated Education for All Children -- 10. The Mother of a Student with Learning Disabilities Calls for More Integrated Learning Environmen -- 11. Students with Disabilities Cannot Be Moved from Their Educational Placement Without Proper Evalu -- 12. Schools Must Appropriately Discipline Students with Disabilities Within the Mandated Guidelines -- 13. A Federally Funded Education Program Can Deny Admittance to a Disabled Individual Based on an In -- 14. The Americans with Disabilities Act Will Advance Civil Rights for Disabled Americans -- 15. A Young Adult Examines the Impact of Personal Assistance Services on Her Life -- 16. A Man Disabled as a Child Reflects on the Importance of the Americans with Disabilities Act on H -- Organizations to Contact -- For Further Reading -- Index