Active Listening Skills Reflection Paper

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Discrimination and Equal Protection Paper Merriam-Webster defines discrimination as the practice of unfairly treating a person or group of people differently from other people or groups of people. There are many laws that have shaped the education of children today. A person or group can be discriminated against, in access of quality of education based on their age, race, color, national origin, disability or sex. Because of this the laws surrounding discrimination have been arguably the most important. There are a number of federal laws that ban education discrimination such as Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, and Title II of the American with Disabilities Act of 1990. This author will be listing various court cases related to discrimination in education and how those court cases have shaped and changed education in today’s schools around the country. Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas 1954 was a landmark United Sates Supreme Court Case. The Supreme Court Case dealt with race discrimination and the courts declared that establishing separate public schools for black and white children was unconstitutional. Brown v. Board of Education (1954), now acknowledged as one of the greatest Supreme Court decisions of the 20th century, unanimously held that the racial segregation of children in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Although the decision did not succeed in fully desegregating public education in the United States, it put the Constitution on the side of racial equality and galvanized the nascent civil rights movement into a full revolution ("Brown v. BOE," 2007, para. 1). The implications of Brown v. BOE are evident anywhere you look in education. After the Supreme Court ruled that the segregation of children in pubic school according to race
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