Education Policy and the Law: Cases and Commentary provides a comprehensive case and problem-based approach to studying the cases, statutes, and developments that shape education law and policy. The Second Edition brings up-to-date the major themes of education law - the First, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution with a particular focus on the Equal Protection and Due Process guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment. It highlights reforms in education law that forcefully shape education policy today - school choice, homeschooling, special needs education, educational malpractice, school safety law, school police, and restorative justice school discipline reform. The Second Edition has three distinguishing characteristics: Cases and Statutes. The book is organized to provide an overview of the major cases from both federal courts and state courts as well as instructive federal and state legislation. Commentary and Narratives. The Second Edition contains a compelling compendium of notes, comments, and stories about how the legal system and policymakers are responding to legal duties and policy constraints. Hypothetical Policy Problems. Drawing on the success of the problem-based sections used in the First Edition textbook, the Second Edition contains problems designed to help learners apply legal principles to policy fact patterns.

Education Law, Policy, and Practice, now in a Second Edition, challenges students to think more deeply and broadly by taking an integrated approach and looking at the political, financial, educational and practical issues at play in school law. Offering a clear framework for understanding education law, this groundbreaking casebook features : an integrated approach that combines law, policy, and practice —by consistently examining the political, financial, educational and practical issues involved in education law a teachable mix of Supreme Court cases, materials, and text a coherent and transparent framework for conceptualizing Education Law in-depth treatment of the major issues : the boundaries of public and private education church and state relations school governance, school choice And The tensions between federal power and local control the rights and responsibilities of students equal protection and racial and gender diversity school finance and equity liabilities within the educational environment the rights and responsibilities of teachers special education Practicums in each section encourage students to apply the law to realistic situations helpful Teacher’s Manual that offers summaries of all of the cases and answers to all of the questions at the end of the cases, As well as strategies for discussing the Practicums, additional teaching techniques, and alternative syllabi Updated throughout, The Second Edition includes : recent Supreme Court decisions regarding racial diversity and integration of public schools, The First Amendment rights of students And The role of church and state in the classroom a dedicated chapter addressing the law and policy of early childhood education critical changes to school legislation, including No Child Left Behind and special education more coverage of School Choice programs and Charter Schools comparative and international law perspectives on education law and policy accessible data and charts that quantify the impact of each area of education law and policy new cases and strategies that impact labor relations in schools new Practicum exercises updated Teacher’s Manual now offers a template for teaching Education Law that enables you to organize, clarify, and summarize all of the material in the text.

There is a myth that lingers around legal education in many democracies. That myth would have us believe that law students are admitted and then succeed based on raw merit, and that law schools are neutral settings in which professors (also selected and promoted based on merit) use their expertise to train those students to become lawyers. Based on original, empirical research, this book investigates this myth from myriad perspectives, diverse settings, and in different nations, revealing that hierarchies of power and cultural norms shape and maintain inequities in legal education. Embedded within law school cultures are assumptions that also stymie efforts at reform. The book examines hidden pedagogical messages, showing how presumptions about theory’s relation to practice are refracted through the obfuscating lens of curricula. The contributors also tackle questions of class and market as they affect law training. Finally, this collection examines how structural barriers replicate injustice even within institutions representing themselves as democratic and open, revealing common dynamics across cultural and institutional forms. The chapters speak to similar issues and to one another about the influence of context, images of law and lawyers, the political economy of legal education, and the agency of students and faculty.

This clear, readable introductory text for undergraduate and graduate Education Law courses or modules offers a practical guide to everyday problems such as student expression, discipline, religion, curriculum, social media, privacy, charter schools, discrimination, special education, and more. Features include distinctions among school, district, state, and federal law; the Facts and Find research method; the Cascade approach to the American legal system; lobbying advice; and the new federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), the replacement to No Child Left Behind. Written by the ex-Counsel to the New York City Board of Education and a graduate of Columbia University Law School, American Public Education Law Primer is more than an academic text, presenting the real world of Education Law to benefit professionals, parents, and the general public.