Educational Law Legislation category: 136 books
Three Strikes and You’re Out!
The Chronicle of America’s Toughest Anti-Crime Law
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2012
This is the story of the toughest sentencing law in America as chronicled by those who were intimately involved in the fight to see it enacted, and who believe in it passionately.
It is the story of one family’s heartbreak, of behind-the-scenes...
by Catherine J. Ross
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
American public schools censor controversial student speech that the Constitution protects. Catherine Ross brings clarity to court rulings that define speech rights of young citizens and proposes ways to protect free expression, arguing that the failure of schools to respect civil liberties betrays their educational mission and threatens democracy.
Critical Feminism and Critical Education
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Teacher Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Challenging the current state of public education and teacher preparation, this book argues for a re-imagination of teacher education through a critical feminist and critical education perspective. Offering a rich discussion of the promise and pedagogy of self-reflexivity and testimonio, which emerges...
by Kirby Clements Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
This essential guide provides comprehensive, simple instructions to avoid breaking the law and how to conduct yourself if you find that you are being accused of violating the law. Written by a seasoned former prosecutor and now defense attorney who regularly appears as a TV legal analyst, the book...
Law and American Education
An Instructor's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2002
Educators working with Palestini's textbook Law and American Education: a Case Brief Approach will find this comprehensive pedagogical tool useful. It contains the full briefs for the cases excerpted in the text, as well as diacritical and pedagogical suggestions. In addition to chapter-by-chapter...
Can Schools Survive?
Questions to Ask, Actions to Take
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Can Schools Survive? raises essential questions about the current status of schools and about the future of schools. The book explores vital questions to answer and considers actions to take so schools can begin to thrive. This book will raise the issue of the purpose of a school and the related issue...
The Principal's Quick-Reference Guide to School Law
Reducing Liability, Litigation, and Other Potential Legal Tangles
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
The go-to legal resource for principals, fully updated!
How often does a potential legal issue arise at your school? Now in an expanded third edition, this trusted resource provides clear and helpful guidance from a team of respected school-law experts. Substantive new information shows principals...
Improving Education in a World of Politics
Recommendations and Strategies for Effective Political Participation
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
This book centers on the fact that public eduction is involved in the politics of the world just as other systems and organizations are involved in competing for the values and resources of the many communities. Keeping education out of politics or politics out of education is fallacious. As long...
Political Will and Improving Public Schools
Seven Reflections for Americans to Consider
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
The essays in this book deal with situations or issues in public education which we need to address. While some of these situations seem clear and almost obvious, making the necessary changes and admitting the truth to ourselves is not necessarily going to happen easily.
The suggestions for...
Scholarly Misconduct
Law, Regulation, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Professional misconduct within the academic community is highly publicised. Retractions of falsified research have reached record levels and allegations of fraud and misconduct by scholars generate high-profile investigations and sometimes professional disgrace. Such cases frequently reach the courts,...
The School-to-Prison Pipeline
Structuring Legal Reform
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
The “school-to-prison pipeline” is an emerging trend that pushes large numbers of at-risk youth—particularly children of color—out of classrooms and into the juvenile justice system. The policies and practices that contribute to this trend can be seen as a pipeline with many entry points,...
The Legal Rights and Responsibilities of Teachers
Issues of Employment and Instruction
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Everything teachers need to know about education law
Do you know what you can and can’t say and do in your school? Most teacher education programs offer little, if any, instruction on education law. When teachers need advice regarding employment or instructional issues, they may find the...
Cyber Law
Maximizing Safety and Minimizing Risk in Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2009
An essential overview of legal issues related to technology, this resource provides case summaries and proactive strategies on privacy, security, copyright, appropriate online behavior, and more.
by Matthew Famiglietti
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2013
The Individualized Education Program (IEP), Mediation, Due Process, Fees and Expenses, and Other Remedies are covered in lay terms, making it easy for parents to understand what is happening, but there is sufficient detail and case law to make this an excellent resource for practicing attorneys.
This...