Legal Issues in Education: Rights and Responsibilities in U.S. Public Schools Today (Higher Education Coursebook) - Softcover

Welner, Kevin; Kim, Robert; Biegel, Stuart

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1683281640 ISBN 13: 9781683281641

Publisher: West Academic Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

This book blends valuable excerpts from original court opinions with policy and legal analysis to help build a deep understanding of the law and its meaning for education students. The book was reviewed and endorsed by several prominent educational scholars. The core of the book is focused on what education students most care about and need to know about the law, with supporting material and additional content created specifically for those students.

Legal Issues in Education is a clearly written, uniquely organized, and practical text on education law for aspiring school leaders, researchers, and others invested in the future of public education in the United States. The book provides thoughtful syntheses of up-to-date case law framed around key issues facing today's educators, leaders and policymakers from practical guidance pertaining to school safety to broader policy concerns regarding access and equal educational opportunity. - Bruce D. Baker, Ed.D. Professor of Educational Theory, Policy and Administration Graduate School of Education Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Welner, Kim, and Biegel distill in these pages an encyclopedic and comprehensive knowledge of equity issues in education, making their book a must-read for anyone i(more...)

Edition details

• Publisher: West Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1683281640
• ISBN 13: 9781683281641
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 478