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Common Core State Standards and Assessments: Background and Issues (open access)

Common Core State Standards and Assessments: Background and Issues

This report provides background information on current law regarding common core and discusses development of the Common Core State Standards and state adoption of the standards. The report provides an analysis of the RTT State Grant competition and how the structure of the grant application process may have incentivized state adoption of the Common Core State Standards.
Date: September 2, 2014
Creator: Skinner, Rebecca R. & Feder, Jody
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Doctrine of Constitutional Avoidance: A Legal Overview (open access)

The Doctrine of Constitutional Avoidance: A Legal Overview

This report discusses select issues regarding judicial review, and offers some contemporary views on the Ashwander Doctrine, under which the Supreme Court avoids ruling decisively in cases that it deems able to be resolved outside of the court, non-constitutionally (Constitutional Avoidance).
Date: September 2, 2014
Creator: Nolan, Andrew
System: The UNT Digital Library
Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im Bank) Reauthorization (open access)

Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im Bank) Reauthorization

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Date: September 2, 2014
Creator: Akhtar, Shayerah Ilias
System: The UNT Digital Library