Educators working with Palestini's textbook Law and American Education: a Case Brief Approach will find this comprehensive pedagogical tool useful. This guide for instructors contains the full briefs for the cases excerpted in that volume, as well as diacritical and pedagogical suggestions. In addition to chapter-by-chapter methodology, the manual also contains a sample syllabus, sample examinations, and a supplement on the controversial issue of sexual harassment. This is an excellent companion for educators with no background in school law.
This readable introduction to American public education law is designed to assist practicing educators, college and graduate students, parents, and the public in acting on everyday legal issues such as student expression, church/state ...
This book analyzes the connections between a culture of economic punishment of schools and the imposition of punitive controls as a vicious cycle that creates fear and develops passive and dependent citizens.
The Courts and American Education Law
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In another decision , Donohue v Copiague Union Free School District , 391 N.E.2d 1352 ( N.Y. 1979 ) , New York Court of Appeals also disallowed a cause of action that sought monetary damages for educational malpractice against a school ...
The title tells it all; American legal education is shamefully bad. Casebooks are endemic, especially in the first year, teaching by terror. Abridged cases are presented, shorn of context, with...
Practical, clear, and easy to read and understand, this guide looks at both the historical background and the contemporary legal issues that affect every aspect of schools today.
"As essential resource for anyone interested in the most up to date and accurate information regarding special education legislation, this book relies on in depth discussion of court cases to help readers to understand statutes and their ...
Critical Legal Studies and the Campaign for American Law Schools tells the story of the critical legal studies movement.
Defends an intellectually based and humanistically motivated concept of liberal and professional education.