Educational Law category: 174 books
The Law of Higher Education, 5th Edition
Student Version
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
Based on the fifth edition of Kaplin and Lee’s indispensable guide to the law that bears on the conduct of higher education, The Law of Higher Education, Fifth Edition: Student Version provides an up-to-date textbook, reference, and guide for coursework in higher education law and programs preparing...
Understanding the Power and Politics of Public Education
Implementing Policies to Achieve Equal Opportunity for All
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Understanding the Power and Politics of Public Education researches the history and trends of educating the populace in the United States. Demographic changes and socio-economic diversity have altered the needs for traditional approaches. Policy makers are implored to become familiar with proven educational...
Moving Every Child Ahead
From NCLB Hype to Meaningful Educational Opportunity
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Acting as a counterbalance to the current unworkable law, this book proposes a more realistic way to achieve NCLB’s inspiring vision by ensuring the right to “meaningful educational opportunity” for all students. This timely volume tackles specific provisions in NCLB head-on, such as the popular,...
A Learning-Centered Framework for Education Reform
What Does It Mean for National Policy?
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In her new book, Betty Demarest describes a bold agenda for education reform—one that is firmly grounded in a synthesis of educational research about learning, teaching, and the contexts of education. The author’s “learning-centered” framework includes: (1) a broad and balanced...
The Educator's Guide to Texas School Law
Ninth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Much has changed in the area of school law since the first edition of The Educator’s Guide was published in 1986. This new ninth edition offers an authoritative source on all major dimensions of Texas school law through the 2017 legislative sessions. Intended for educators, school board members,...
Need to Kill
Identifying Addictive Serial Killing
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2017
With an extensive increase in the rate of crime all over the world and especially in America, the need to address the underlying causes responsible for this alarming rise has never been more urgent. Since murder stands at the apex of the crime hierarchy, this book focuses on one of the vilest crimes...
Federalism and Education
Ongoing Challenges and Policy Strategies in Ten Countries
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Federalism has played a central role in charting educational progress in many countries. With an evolving balance between centralization and decentralization, federalism is designed to promote accountability standards without tempering regional and local preferences. Federalism facilitates negotiations...
Why Race and Culture Matter in Schools
Closing the Achievement Gap in America's Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
While race and culture remain important variables in how young people experience schools, they are often misunderstood by educators and school personnel. Building on three studies that investigated schools successful in closing the achievement gap, Tyrone Howard shows how adopting greater awareness...
by William A. Kaplin, Barbara A. Lee
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
Make sure you have a copy on your bookshelf.
The Law of Higher Education, Fifth Edition, is the most up-to-date and comprehensive reference, research source, and practical legal guide for college and university administrators, campus attorneys, legal counsel, and institutional researchers,...
LDB: Lei de diretrizes e bases da educação nacional
Atualizada até março de 2017
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: August 3, 2017
A LDB regulamenta o sistema educacional do País, do nível básico ao superior, tanto no âmbito público quanto no privado. Ela reafirma o direito à educação, garantido pela Constituição, e define as responsabilidades da União, dos Estados, do Distrito Federal e dos Municípios. Este volume...
The Integration of the UCLA School of Law, 1966—1978
Architects of Affirmative Action
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
In 1966, a group of UCLA law school professors sparked the era of affirmative action by creating one of the earliest and most expansive race-conscious admissions programs in higher education. The Legal Education Opportunity Program (LEOP) served to integrate the legal profession by admitting large...
Common Core Meets Education Reform
What It All Means for Politics, Policy, and the Future of Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How can the Common Core complement and not conflict with school improvement efforts already at work across the United States? How can it be seamlessly integrated into accountability systems, teacher preparation and development, charter schools, and educational technology? This timely volume brings...
Education Governance for the Twenty-First Century
Overcoming the Structural Barriers to School Reform
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
America's fragmented, decentralized, politicized, and bureaucratic system of education governance is a major impediment to school reform. In this important new book, a number of leading education scholars, analysts, and practitioners show that understanding the impact of specific policy changes in...
Changing the Course of Failure
How Schools and Parents Can Help Low-Achieving Students
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
The basic purpose of this book is to help policy makers at all levels of government understand that (1) widespread adolescent underachievement is not susceptible to solution by educational interventions no matter how much money is allocated to public education; and (2) there are unidentified educational...