Educational Law category: 174 books
Educational Freedom
Remembering Andrew Coulson - Debating His Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Although his life was cut tragically short in 2016, Andrew Coulson had a remarkable impact on education policy. As director of the Cato Institute's Center for Educational Freedom from 2005 to 2015, Coulson was committed to excellence in education and consistently advocated for free-market reforms that...
The Decline in Educational Standards
From a Public Good to a Quasi-Monopoly
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
The Decline in Educational Standards: From a Public Good to a Quasi-Monopoly is about the “commodification” of education and the factors that have changed education from a public good into a “commodity” over the last 50 years. When we look at today’s education, we see that academic standards...
Stop Politically Driven Education
Subverting the System to Build a New School Model
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2019
On these pages is a call to action for teachers who have been shackled by the self-serving motives of agenda driven politicians. Here we present a new innovative process designed to prepare children to be productive members of their community. Students are empowered to take charge of their educational...
by John Dunn
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2015
Reading and Understanding Canadian Law or Legislation is the first in the "For Regular People" series which introduces you to reading and understanding Canadian legislation in order to get you started on your path toward your educational, employment, advocacy, or self-help related goals.
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The Transformation of Title IX
Regulating Gender Equality in Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
One civil rights-era law has reshaped American society—and contributed to the country's ongoing culture wars
Few laws have had such far-reaching impact as Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. Intended to give girls and women greater access to sports programs and other courses of...
Reign of Error
The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
From one of the foremost authorities on education in the United States, former U.S. assistant secretary of education, “whistle-blower extraordinaire” (The Wall Street Journal), author of the best-selling The Death and Life of the Great American School System (“Important and riveting”—Library...
Political Education
Setting the Course for State and Federal Policy, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this volume, political insider Christopher Cross updates his critically acclaimed bestseller with new chapters and important new insights into future education policy. Cross draws on his own experience in Washington, along with research and interviews, to present a highly readable history of federal...
Why Are Student Athletes Funding Your Future?
No More Excuses: Pay Me!
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Scholarship shortfalls persist, leaving NCAA scholarship student-athletes to pay hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars for additional educational expenses not covered by their current athletic scholarships. Meanwhile, NCAA campuses continue to generate money from the sale of apparel and other...
by Jennifer L. Hochschild, Nathan Scovronick
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2004
The American Dream and the Public Schools examines issues that have excited and divided Americans for years, including desegregation, school funding, testing, vouchers, bilingual education, and ability grouping. While these are all separate problems, much of the contention over them comes down to...
Educación, colonización y rebeldía
La herencia del pacto Calderón-Gordillo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 1, 2013
La educación en México está en crisis. Los estudiantes no aprenden lo que se supone deben saber para desempeñarse en sociedad, la ética de los maestros no corresponde a su magisterio, el gobierno de la educación básica está colonizado por fieles del Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la...
by Sandra Stein
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This powerful book shows the many unintended ways in which social and educational policy can shape, if not constrain, the work of educating students. Focusing on the creation and history of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) from its inception in 1965 to the present, Stein...
Education Unchained
What it takes to Restore Schools and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Are we going about education the wrong way? The somewhat shocking demonstration of this book is that "we" simply cannot reform "our" schools "together". We don't actually even know what schools or education really are. Education can only be improved the same way we improve...
by David C. Gibbs III, Barbara Weller
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
This resource is intended to help individuals understand their rights to exercise their faith in the public school arena. It is also designed to help families, students, teachers, school officials, and community leaders sort through the current legal maze of religious expression in America’s public...
Chicano Students and the Courts
The Mexican American Legal Struggle for Educational Equality
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
In 1925 Adolfo ‘Babe’ Romo, a Mexican American rancher in Tempe, Arizona, filed suit against his school district on behalf of his four young children, who were forced to attend a markedly low-quality segregated school, and won. But Romo v. Laird was just the beginning. Some sources rank Mexican...