Educational Law category: 174 books
by Benjamin M. Superfine
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
Educational equality has long been a vital concept in US law and policy. Since Brown v. Board of Education, the concept of educational equality has remained markedly durable and animated major school reform efforts, including desegregation, school finance reform, the education of students with disabilities...
Realizing Educational Rights
Advancing School Reform through Courts and Communities
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
In Realizing Educational Rights, Anne Newman examines two educational rights questions that arise at the intersection of political theory, educational policy, and law: What is the place of a right to education in a participatory democracy, and how can we realize this right in the United States? Tracking...
by University of Chicago Law Review
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
This first issue of 2012 features articles and essays from internationally recognized legal and education scholars, including an extensive Symposium on understanding education and its issues of policy and law in the United States. Topics include economic structures in education, teaching patriotism,...
California School Law
Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
Now in its third edition, California School Law is the only comprehensive source discussing how federal and state law affects the day-to-day operation of the state's traditional public, charter, and private schools. While the book is comprehensive, the authors have written it for a broad audience....
Five Miles Away, A World Apart
One City, Two Schools, and the Story of Educational Opportunity in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2010
How is it that, half a century after Brown v. Board of Education, educational opportunities remain so unequal for black and white students, not to mention poor and wealthy ones? In his important new book, Five Miles Away, A World Apart, James E. Ryan answers this question by tracing the fortunes of...
The Courts, the Charter, and the Schools
The Impact of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms on Educational Policy and Practice, 1982-2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2010
The adoption of the Canadian Constitution Act in 1982, with its embedded Charter of Rights and Freedoms, ushered in an era of unprecedented judicial influence on Canada's public policy. The Courts, the Charter, and the Schools examines how the Constitution Act has affected educational policy during...
by Benjamin Michael Superfine
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2008
Since the desegregation of public schools in the 1950s, the concept of standards-based reform has become a central topic within educational policy. Every American state is now required to enact standards-based reform policies while shifting responsibility away from the government and holding schools...
by Beverley H Johns
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
When you're teaching students who have special needs, what are your legal responsibilities? How can you provide appropriate, legally compliant special education services—and avoid pitfalls that could lead to due process hearings and court dates? Turn to this interactive quick guide for concise,...
Academic Freedom at American Universities
Constitutional Rights, Professional Norms, and Contractual Duties
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
This book details the legal and historical development of institutional and professorial academic freedoms to better understand the relationship between these concepts. While some judges and scholars have focused on the divergence of these protections, this book articulates an aligned theory that...
Americans by Heart
Undocumented Latino Students and the Promise of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Americans by Heart examines the plight of undocumented Latino students as they navigate the educational and legal tightrope presented by their immigration status. Many of these students are accepted to attend some of our best colleges and universities but cannot afford the tuition to do so because...
by Kent Greenawalt
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Controversial Supreme Court decisions have barred organized school prayer, but neither the Court nor public policy exclude religion from schools altogether. In this book, one of America's leading constitutional scholars asks what role religion ought to play in public schools. Kent Greenawalt explores...
Resolving Disputes about Educational Provision
A Comparative Perspective on Special Educational Needs
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
With contributions by recognised experts in the field of education law, this book is a comparative study of the resolution of special education disputes, including via mediation. It analyses the varying approaches in England, Scotland, the US and the Netherlands and addresses major questions of dispute...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
The Handbook of Comparative Higher Education Law addresses legal issues from institutions of higher learning in seventeen countries on all six inhabited continents in a reader friendly manner. All chapters follow the same outline on institutional issues, faculty rights, student rights, and emerging...
Framing Equal Opportunity
Law and the Politics of School Finance Reform
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
In the struggle to ensure that schools receive their fair share of financial and educational resources, reformers translate policy goals into legal claims in a number of different ways. This enlightening new work uncovers the options reformers have in framing legal challenges and how the choices they...