Full Description
This comprehensive casebook presents thorough coverage of a complex and dynamic subject--educational law and policy in the elementary and secondary school setting. With an emphasis on the interplay between law and policy, legal decisions, and educational practice, the book's interdisciplinary approach provides a wide range of perspectives on the most pressing issues in the field. Cases, legislation, and articles, all of which are accompanied by notes and discussion questions, clarify the issues and bring them to life. The book draws upon a range of social science sources as well as conventional legal materials, offering analyses that provide insights into the political and policy contexts of legal issues, and helping readers make sense of legal decisions. The abundant notes and references also make the book a useful reference work for lawyers or school administrators working in the field.
Contents
Part I1. The Pierce Compromise and Its Implications for Education Governance.2. Compulsory Schooling, Public Policy, and the Constitution.3. State Regulation of Nonpublic Schools.4. Home Schooling.5. Discrimination and Private Education.6. State Aid to Private Schools.Part II: SOCIALIZATION AND STUDENT AND TEACHER RIGHTS.7. Introduction.8. Religious, Political, and Moral Socialization.9. Opening the School to Alternative Ideas.PUBLIC SCHOOLS.10. Introduction.11. Governmental Regularity and School Rules.12. Gathering the Evidence to Prove the Infraction.13. Procedural Due Process.Part IV: EQUAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY AND RACE.14. Introduction.15. The Judicial Response to School Segregation: The Brown Decision.16. The Progress of School Desegregation: 1954-1968.17. Desegregation: Evolution of a Constitutional Standard.18. Desegregation: An Emerging National Standard.19. End of an Era? 20. School Desegregation: The Role of the Political Branches.21. Second Generation" Problems.22. Introduction.23. The Search for a Constitutional Standard.24. The Legislative Framework: Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.25. Conclusion.RACE AND GENDER.26. Introduction.27. Ethnicity and National Origin.28. Disability: From "Incapable of Benefiting" from an Education to the Right to an "Appropriate" Education.29. Poverty and Homelessness.30. Conclusion.Part VII: EQUAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY AND SCHOOL FINANCE.31. Introduction.32. Interdistrict Inequalities.33. Intradistrict Inequalities.34. The Right to a "Free" Public Education.35. Race and School Finance.Part VIII: EDUCATIONAL GOVERNANCE AND THE LAW.36. Introduction.37. Federal, State, and Local Authority over Educational Decision Making.38. The Balance of Power: Elected Officials, Career Professionals, and Courts.39. Schools and Markets.Appendix: United States Constitution.Index of Authors.Subject Index."
