A student cannot pursue his claim that Columbia University’s determination that he failed an examination was “arbitrary and capricious,” a New York appeals court ruled, finding that “strong policy considerations militate against” court intervention in controversies over educational institutions’ evaluations of students’ performance.
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A group of students and education reform advocates sued the University of California system Tuesday, claiming its use of SAT and ACT test scores in admissions discriminates against low-income and minority applicants.
Read moreAmerican students may not be reading any better, but they’re moving up in rankings of educational achievement worldwide because many of their peers in other countries are performing worse.
Read moreA former New York inmate claims in a federal class action that two diagnostic companies issued drug tests that produced false positives, forcing her to be kept in the same cell for 11 straight days.
Read moreAn investigation that found human error caused the leak of California State Bar exam topics this past July also revealed the agency was ill-equipped to handle the fallout.
Read moreA former nursing student sued for readmission to Long Island University-Post, claiming it kicked her out after unfairly accusing her of cheating on a test, though she merely clicked a link on the school website, to which her professor had, apparently inadvertently, attached the next day’s test, in Nassau County Court.
Read moreA federal class action claims Pearson Clinical Assessments exposed confidential information from 1 million students in 13,000 schools nationwide in a data hack.
Read moreThe California Supreme Court has hired retired Justice Arthur Scotland and his law firm Nielsen Merksamer to probe the State Bar of California’s leak of exam essay topics.
Read moreFormer “Desperate Housewives” star Felicity Huffman fought back tears as she pleaded guilty Monday for taking part in the nationwide college admissions bribery scandal that has also ensnared wealthy parents, business executives and coaches.
Read moreA federal class action claims the California Massage Therapy Council and governor discriminate against non-English Chinese speakers by offering the massage therapist test only in English and Spanish.
Read moreThe actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin made brief court appearances Wednesday three weeks after they were charged along with dozens of other wealthy parents in a nationwide college admissions scandal.
Read moreThe first batch of defendants in the admissions bribery scandal was arraigned today in Boston, with a dozen college sports coaches and school administrators pleading not guilty to federal racketeering charges.
Read moreA class of female sexual assault victims argued before a Sixth Circuit panel Tuesday to revive claims that the city of Memphis did not process their evidence kits when the crimes were first reported.
Read moreAds protesting experimental testing on kittens by the Agriculture Department will soon appear on buses and trains in Maryland thanks to a settlement between a taxpayer watchdog group and the state, which initially rejected the group’s ad campaign this fall.
Read moreThe International Criminal Court is examining a complaint filed against France over its past program of nuclear tests in the South Pacific, Courthouse News has confirmed.
Read moreA Tokyo medical university faced a new allegation after a newspaper report Thursday that the school has allegedly discriminated against female applicants on grounds they tend to quit as doctors after starting families, causing staffing shortages.
Read moreAn EU magistrate chided the Netherlands on Wednesday for testing divorced immigrants on civic integration before giving them autonomous residence permits.
Read moreWeeks before her due date, Cassandra Forrester received word that she was positive for the Zika virus. The Maryland woman wants damages now from a public health lab that misinformed her months earlier she was negative.
Read moreJust weeks after winning the dismissal of more than 11,000 drug convictions, the ACLU called on the highest court in Massachusetts for additional dismissals and sanctions against the state Attorney General’s Office.
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