For graduate-level courses in School Law, and Education Law. Also suitable as a quick-reference book for school administrators.This book provides educators with information that will enable them to recognize and address potential legal problems, empower them to make informed judgments and decisions, and alert them when legal counsel should be sought. It thoroughly covers the legal principles governing American schools, and discusses the origin and development of laws pertaining to schools. Updat...
In February 1954, President Eisenhower invited Chief Justice Warren to dinner at the White House. Among the guests were well-known opponents of school desegregation. During that evening, Eisenhower commented to Warren that 'law and force cannot change a man's heart.' Three months later, however, the Supreme Court handed down its unanimous decision in Brown, and the contributors to this book, like people across the country, were profoundly changed by it, even though many saw almost nothing change...
Education Law provides a comprehensive survey of the legal problems and issues that confront school administrators and policymakers.
School Law: Cases and Concepts is written for educators and others with little background in school law. It focuses on an understanding of legal rationale and principles that inform practice.. Clearly and interestingly written, this book examines the laws educators need to know to operate in a legally defensible and educationally sound manner. In addition to providing historical perspective, this new edition examines policies and litigation pertaining to church and state issues, legal rights a...
Community Education and Crime Prevention
Scholars in various disciplines are recommending comprehensive measures to solve multiple societal as well as individual problems. The philosophy of ""community education"" has been overlooked but is a workable, comprehensive approach to addressing crime. As used in this book, community education is a philosophy, process, and program comprised of three overriding and interrelated elements: community empowerment, community problem-solving, and the effort to involve all community members in the pu...
In Realizing Educational Rights, Anne Newman examines two educational rights questions that arise at the intersection of political theory, educational policy, and law: What is the place of a right to education in a participatory democracy, and how can we realize this right in the United States? Tracking these questions across both philosophical and pragmatic terrain, she addresses urgent moral and political questions, offering a rare, double-pronged look at educational justice in a democratic so...
This unique reference has introduced countless students to the field of legal studies by studying Supreme Court issues that directly affect young people. For this third edition, CQ Press worked directly with educators to retain the best features of the previous editions while updating and further refining the material, including a significantly expanded treatment of Equal Protection and discrimination. The book s freshly updated design facilitates student comprehension with new features such as...
Text is appropriate for any Texas Education course.This text profiles the standards, procedures and statutes governing one of the most highly regarded state education systems in the United States. This edition has been totally revised and streamlined, resulting in a text that still provides broad coverage but does so in a succinct fashion. The coverage is up-to-date, pertinent, and topical.
The Naacp's Legal Strategy Against Segregated Education, 1925-1950
by Mark V Tushnet
The NAACP's fight against segregated education - the first public interest litigation campaign - culminated in the 1954 Brown decision. While touching on the general social, political, and economic climate in which the NAACP acted, Mark V. Tushnet emphasizes the internal workings of the organization as revealed in its own documents. He argues that the dedication and the political and legal skills of staff members such as Walter White, Charles Hamilton Houston, and Thurgood Marshall were responsi...
Towards an Ecological Intellectual Property (Routledge Research in Intellectual Property)
by David J Jefferson
This book focuses on analysing how legal systems set the terms for interactions between human beings and plants. The story that the book recounts is one of experimental lawmaking in Ecuador, a country where over the past decade, governmental officials and civil society advocates have attempted to reconfigure how human individuals and institutions relate to nature, by following an "eco-centric" approach to lawmaking. In doing so, Ecuadorian legislators, administrators, and judges have taken ser...
The Equality Act for Educational Professionals (nasen spotlight)
by Geraldine Hills
"A definite must for SENCOS." -- Urmston Junior School "A good insight into process of tribunal and what the Equality Act means." -- Team Leader, St Paul's CE Primary School 'A much needed resource in supporting schools, centres, day nurseries and community childcare provision to understand the complexity of the issues surrounding SEN... A valuable tool.’ -- Gerri Ross – Head of Old Moat Sure Start Children’s Centre, UK "Straightforward and easily accessible...I would recommend this book to u...
Better Policies, Better Schools
by Bruce S. Cooper, Lance D Fusarelli, and E . Vance Randall
This book brings together the latest research on the policy-making process and theories of policy studies, and applies them to key policy areas. Policies are examined using 4 frameworks or "policy lenses"-normative, structural, constituent and technical-are used to enable students to view policy in a range of complexity. The authors have incorporated real world examples and vignettes and divided the text into 3 distinct parts-Theory, Process, Application to make information accessible and useful...
This book analyses the case-law of the European Court of Justice on free movement in the energy sector. Sirja-Leena Penttinen provides a comprehensive review of the interpretation and application of the free movement provisions in the energy sector by the European Court of Justice (ECJ), which allow for cross-border energy trade (free movement of goods) and energy investments (free movement of capital). Through detailed analysis of ECJ case-law, Penttinen tracks the development of the legislat...
The focus of The Legal World of the School Principal is to emphasize the legal responsibilities of the school principal. This book will help principals be knowledgeable of the court cases and federal and state laws that affect their daily work. Research studies have revealed that a large majority of school principals spends over twenty percent of their time on matters that involve legal contentions. In addition, principals report they were not well prepared to meet the legal challenges facing t...
Teachers on Trial is a study of 260 case decisions in New York State which tenured teachers were charged with incompetence or conduct unbecoming a professional. The author analyzes what, in the deciders' opinion, constituted conduct unbecoming and incompetence and critiques the standards used in making determinations.
This text closes a gap in the study of special education law - it affords students in the university classroom setting valuable practice applying legal principles using real-life case studies. In the study of educational law, students often study the details of the law within the confines of the classroom and are left to apply the principles on their own as situations arise in their professional lives. This much-needed text allows students the luxury of discussing authentic issues with other s...
The plight of John T. Scopes dominated headlines for weeks, but behind the scenes of the famous ""Monkey Trial"" were other dramas hidden from public view. Now a serendipitous discovery has opened a new window on the ""Trial of the Century,"" enabling modern readers to comprehend more completely the tensions that gripped a Tennessee community - and the nation - in 1925.Historian Marcel LaFollette discovered at the Smithsonian a cache of more than sixty never-before-published photographs taken at...