Educational Law Legislation category: 136 books
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...
Making Education Work for the Poor
The Potential of Children's Savings Accounts
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Making Education Work for the Poor identifies wealth inequality as the gravest threat to the endangered American Dream. Though studies have clearly illustrated that education is the primary path to upward mobility, today, educational outcomes are more directly determined by wealth than innate ability...
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...
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...
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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...
Over Here
How the G.I. Bill Transformed the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2014
Extraordinary stories of ordinary men and women whose lives were changed forever by landmark legislation—and how they went on to change the country.
Inspiring war stories are familiar. But what about after-the-war stories? From a Pulitzer Prize–winning author, Over Here is the Greatest Generation’s...
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...