Educational Law Legislation category: 136 books
The Transformation of Title IX
Regulating Gender Equality in Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
One civil rights-era law has reshaped American society—and contributed to the country's ongoing culture wars
Few laws have had such far-reaching impact as Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. Intended to give girls and women greater access to sports programs and other courses of...
Reign of Error
The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
From one of the foremost authorities on education in the United States, former U.S. assistant secretary of education, “whistle-blower extraordinaire” (The Wall Street Journal), author of the best-selling The Death and Life of the Great American School System (“Important and riveting”—Library...
Political Education
Setting the Course for State and Federal Policy, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this volume, political insider Christopher Cross updates his critically acclaimed bestseller with new chapters and important new insights into future education policy. Cross draws on his own experience in Washington, along with research and interviews, to present a highly readable history of federal...
Why Are Student Athletes Funding Your Future?
No More Excuses: Pay Me!
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Scholarship shortfalls persist, leaving NCAA scholarship student-athletes to pay hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars for additional educational expenses not covered by their current athletic scholarships. Meanwhile, NCAA campuses continue to generate money from the sale of apparel and other...
by Jennifer L. Hochschild, Nathan Scovronick
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2004
The American Dream and the Public Schools examines issues that have excited and divided Americans for years, including desegregation, school funding, testing, vouchers, bilingual education, and ability grouping. While these are all separate problems, much of the contention over them comes down to...
Educación, colonización y rebeldía
La herencia del pacto Calderón-Gordillo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2013
La educación en México está en crisis. Los estudiantes no aprenden lo que se supone deben saber para desempeñarse en sociedad, la ética de los maestros no corresponde a su magisterio, el gobierno de la educación básica está colonizado por fieles del Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la...
Education Unchained
What it takes to Restore Schools and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Are we going about education the wrong way? The somewhat shocking demonstration of this book is that "we" simply cannot reform "our" schools "together". We don't actually even know what schools or education really are. Education can only be improved the same way we improve...
by David C. Gibbs III, Barbara Weller
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
This resource is intended to help individuals understand their rights to exercise their faith in the public school arena. It is also designed to help families, students, teachers, school officials, and community leaders sort through the current legal maze of religious expression in America’s public...
Chicano Students and the Courts
The Mexican American Legal Struggle for Educational Equality
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
In 1925 Adolfo ‘Babe’ Romo, a Mexican American rancher in Tempe, Arizona, filed suit against his school district on behalf of his four young children, who were forced to attend a markedly low-quality segregated school, and won. But Romo v. Laird was just the beginning. Some sources rank Mexican...
The Graveyard of School Reform
Why the Resistance to Change and New Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
The Graveyard of School Reform: Why the Resistance to Change and New Ideas explores the critical role resistance plays in defeating valued programs for students, parents, and staff. It is time for education reformers to face the hard truths about the skilled and destructive forces of resisters and...
An Educator's GPS
Fending Off the Free Market of Schooling for America's Students
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2019
The time has come to focus on teaching and learning that all American students deserve. Quality instruction that engages all students with thinking skills that create successful intelligence for the future of all students is offered throughout traditional public education in the US. But, an adult-centered...
The Normal Accident Theory of Education
Why Reform and Regulation Won’t Make Schools Better
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Much of the current debate about education too often resembles the blind men describing an elephant--apprehending only a particular part of the situation or the process, many analysts tell an evocative but incomplete story. The so-called ‘reform’ discussion proceeds with a lack of depth about...
Trendsetting Charter Schools
Raising the Bar for Civic Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
This book presents six different charter schools that explicitly embrace a compelling civic mission and that foster an excellent academic environment. This volume makes the case that the rediscovery of the civic mission of schooling is not at odds with the broader education reform movement. These...
When the Cops Come Knockin': An Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law
2nd Edition Premium Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
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Historically, the more educated and wealthy have the most access to knowledge about the law and the
legal process. Many everyday citizens just don’t have that access. More and more people from all backgrounds, income levels and culture are finding themselves in unanticipated...