Shouldn’t have said that. Judicial language has a reputation of being a bit, well, stiff. When your words represent the court and the profession, there is an expectation for judges to speak in a way that is measured, neutral, and non-accusatory. While that is the expectation, it isn’t always met. A Baton Rouge judge is…
Seven decades ago, U.S. civil rights history was made with the Brown v. Board of Education decision.Dr. Ivory A. Toldson When the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled in May 1954 that separate educational facilities between Black students and white students was “inherently unequal,” dismissing the concept of “separate but equal” in public education, the nation began…
Metacognition plays a critical role in the education process. The concept itself amounts to ‘thinking about thinking.’ When students learn through metacognitive activities before, during and after class, their grades or scores often improve. The reason? Self-awareness, reflection and critical thinking lead to more engagement in the classroom. As such, metacognition is one of the…
EMERGENCY DOCKET By Amy Howe on May 15, 2024 at 6:14 pm The justices ruled on Louisiana’s voting map on Wednesday. (Guyyoung1966 via Wikimedia Commons) The Supreme Court on Wednesday cleared the way for Louisiana to use a new congressional map, containing two majority-Black districts, in the 2024 elections. In a brief unsigned order the…
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! Which Biglaw firm announced today they’re opening a Delaware office — only their third in the United Stated (the firm has offices in New York and Washington, D.C., as well as one in London)? Hint: The office’s practice will focus on Digital Assets…
Dr. Stacy W. SmallwoodStacy W. Smallwood has been named executive director of Wake Forest University School of Divinity’s Faith COMPASS Center. He serves as associate professor of community health and founding director of the Office of Health Equity and Community Engagement in the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health at Georgia Southern University. Smallwood holds…
Things are looking up for TikTok. After Congress and the President signed off on a requirement for ByteDance to divest itself of TikTok, the company promised to go to court alleging that the law violated the First Amendment. There have already been cracks in the government’s argument against TikTok (thanks, Mitt Romney), but the government…
Dr. Mark Becker plans to leave his role as president of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU) at the end of the year. “I am in good health, and at the same time recent life events have led me to the conclusion that I need to devote more time to my health and…
For the first time ever the American Bar Association — specifically the Data Policy and Collection Committee — is tracking who is getting law school scholarships. The results, at least if you care about diversity, are not fantastic. The most notable data point relates to the full-ride scholarships. White law students are getting a whopping…
Dr. Donovan Livingston, award-winning educator, spoken word poet, and public speaker, has spent his career in education bridging the gap between his artistic sensibility and commitment to college access, and social justice. “A lot of my work is grounded in how Hip Hop informs student experiences in college,” Livingston said. Before attending the University of…