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29 Apr 2022, 11:05 am
Here are some highlights: The Fairfax Stone National Library Week – These Are a Few of Our Favorite Things Spring Remote Project: Legal Gazettes New Report on the Legal Framework for Nuclear Technology and Information in the United Kingdom and Australia Patented Device Aimed to Make it Easier to Obtain Criminal Confessions – Pic of the Week Congress.gov April 2022 New, Tip, and Top Spring Remote Project: Transcribing the Century of Lawmaking Site New Acquisition: 1794 Sea Letter… [read post]
28 Apr 2022, 9:01 pm
Case in point: earlier this week the Supreme Court denied an application for emergency relief (part of the so-called “shadow” docket) in a case involving changes in the admissions policy at the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (“Thomas Jefferson” or “TJ”) in Alexandria, Virginia, a public STEM-focused school that has a selective admissions process and that has traditionally served high-performing students.… [read post]
27 Apr 2022, 5:20 pm
The rest of the pictures rotate in slide shows on video screens…” Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First St. [read post]
27 Apr 2022, 7:30 am
The school board in the fall of 2020 enacted a “holistic” policy for the admissions process at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJ), which was enacted to help with the lack of diversity the school is known for. [read post]
26 Apr 2022, 4:00 am
I have been writing (here and here and here) on the controversy over the decision of the Fairfax School Board to change the admissions requirements for Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology to achieve diversity goals. [read post]
25 Apr 2022, 3:50 pm
Until October 2020, Thomas Jefferson used an admissions process that included grades, standardized tests, teacher recommendations, and essays. [read post]
21 Apr 2022, 7:30 am
For the Balkinization symposium on Daniel Carpenter, Democracy by Petition: Popular Politics in Transformation, 1790–1870 (Harvard University Press, 2021).Daniel Carpenter[1] Is there anything like the petition of lore left in our republic? [read post]
20 Apr 2022, 7:30 am
For the Balkinization symposium on Daniel Carpenter, Democracy by Petition: Popular Politics in Transformation, 1790–1870 (Harvard University Press, 2021). [read post]
Showdown at TJ: How a Virginia High School Became The Latest Battleground Over Racial Discrimination
15 Apr 2022, 6:00 am
Below is my column in the Hill on the litigation over the new admissions policy at the elite Thomas Jefferson High School in Fairfax, Virginia. [read post]
14 Apr 2022, 7:30 am
The changing meaning of Jefferson's legacy in Modern America":Annette Gordon-Reed will take Thomas Jefferson as a point of departure for a thought-provoking consideration of how Americans understand their own history. [read post]
13 Apr 2022, 12:43 pm
ShareThere is no man in this country to whom the colored race is more indebted. [read post]
13 Apr 2022, 6:23 am
Khan QC stated that the ICC would open a third investigation against Russia for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the Russian invasion into Ukraine, which began on February 24, 2022; Whereas Ukraine has also filed a claim in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) instituting proceedings against the Russian Federation related to genocide under the Genocide Convention; and … The Senate— … (2) encourages member states to petition the ICC or other… [read post]
13 Apr 2022, 4:59 am
Jefferson, Thomas. [read post]
9 Apr 2022, 5:00 am
New York State Comptroller Thomas P. [read post]
9 Apr 2022, 5:00 am
New York State Comptroller Thomas P. [read post]
8 Apr 2022, 12:30 pm
After the Fairfax County School Board in Virginia eliminated standardized tests from the admissions criteria for the prestigious Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology, Asian-American enrollment dropped from an average of 71% to 54% for the class of 2025. [read post]
1 Apr 2022, 3:41 pm
The Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. [read post]
1 Apr 2022, 10:12 am
He hired Peter Jefferson and George Washington to survey his lands at various times and as a result, formed a friendship with Washington that lasted throughout Fairfax’s life. [read post]
1 Apr 2022, 7:12 am
“Court says Thomas Jefferson admissions can remain as case proceeds”: In today’s edition of The Washington Post, Hannah Natanson has this article reporting on an order, accompanied by a concurrence and a dissent, that a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. [read post]
31 Mar 2022, 2:48 pm
The same was true of Thomas Jefferson and Whittier during roughly the same period. [read post]
