Educational Law Legislation category: 136 books
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...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
In The Handbook of Canadian Higher Education Law, experts examine key legal issues in postsecondary education. Establishing the current governance arrangements for Canadian postsecondary education within a historical context, the editors provide a detailed look at the legislative framework of postsecondary...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Educational Freedom
Remembering Andrew Coulson - Debating His Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Although his life was cut tragically short in 2016, Andrew Coulson had a remarkable impact on education policy. As director of the Cato Institute's Center for Educational Freedom from 2005 to 2015, Coulson was committed to excellence in education and consistently advocated for free-market reforms that...
by Professor Andrew Boon
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
This book aims to produce lawyers who can debate, criticise and change professional ethics as well as understand their underlying rationale. Written by the author of the leading work on the subject, The Ethics and Conduct of Lawyers in England and Wales, this book is aimed at the undergraduate or...
The Decline in Educational Standards
From a Public Good to a Quasi-Monopoly
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
The Decline in Educational Standards: From a Public Good to a Quasi-Monopoly is about the “commodification” of education and the factors that have changed education from a public good into a “commodity” over the last 50 years. When we look at today’s education, we see that academic standards...
Stop Politically Driven Education
Subverting the System to Build a New School Model
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2019
On these pages is a call to action for teachers who have been shackled by the self-serving motives of agenda driven politicians. Here we present a new innovative process designed to prepare children to be productive members of their community. Students are empowered to take charge of their educational...