Education Law, Policy, And Practice: Cases And Materials

To give your students a full understanding of education law, you need to address the political and practical issues alongside the legal doctrine. This thoughtful new coursebook accomplishes that goal through careful integration of practice and policy.When you examine this new offering, be sure to notice its:solid coverage of the key cases and statutes, plus thoughtful notes and questions where the authors challenge students to scrutinize the political and philosophical assumptions underlying education lawconsistent integration of political, financial, and practical issues involved in education lawteachable mix of key cases, materials, and effective author-written textsuccessful macro organization that places topics into an integrated framework and brings cohesion to the subjectpracticums in each section to give students experience applying the law in realistic situationsprimary focus on federal law, with appropriate coverage of significant state interpretationshelpful Teacher's Manual that provides a clear synopsis for every case in the book, answers to questions at the end of cases, strategies for discussing and resolving the practicums, additional teaching techniques, and alternative syllabiThe book examines all the major issues of education law:boundaries of public and private education and church and state relationsschool governance and the tensions between federal power and local controlthe rights and responsibilities of students, including equal protection, affirmative action, and special educationthe educational environment and its liabilitiesthe rights and responsibilities of teachersSherelyn R. Kaufman is the author of 'Education Law, Policy, And Practice: Cases And Materials', published 2004 under ISBN 9780735540385 and ISBN 0735540381.