Educational Law category: 174 books
The Graveyard of School Reform
Why the Resistance to Change and New Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
The Graveyard of School Reform: Why the Resistance to Change and New Ideas explores the critical role resistance plays in defeating valued programs for students, parents, and staff. It is time for education reformers to face the hard truths about the skilled and destructive forces of resisters and...
An Educator's GPS
Fending Off the Free Market of Schooling for America's Students
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2019
The time has come to focus on teaching and learning that all American students deserve. Quality instruction that engages all students with thinking skills that create successful intelligence for the future of all students is offered throughout traditional public education in the US. But, an adult-centered...
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by Douglas Silas
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
"The guide that the Government should have written, but didn’t!"
Now updated for 2016/17, this is the comprehensive guide to the Special Educational Needs & Disability Code of Practice 2014 and new SEN framework, which came into force in September 2014.
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The Normal Accident Theory of Education
Why Reform and Regulation Won’t Make Schools Better
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Much of the current debate about education too often resembles the blind men describing an elephant--apprehending only a particular part of the situation or the process, many analysts tell an evocative but incomplete story. The so-called ‘reform’ discussion proceeds with a lack of depth about...
Trendsetting Charter Schools
Raising the Bar for Civic Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
This book presents six different charter schools that explicitly embrace a compelling civic mission and that foster an excellent academic environment. This volume makes the case that the rediscovery of the civic mission of schooling is not at odds with the broader education reform movement. These...
When the Cops Come Knockin': An Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law
2nd Edition Premium Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
ACCESS GRANTED!
Historically, the more educated and wealthy have the most access to knowledge about the law and the
legal process. Many everyday citizens just don’t have that access. More and more people from all backgrounds, income levels and culture are finding themselves in unanticipated...
The Devil in Dover
An Insider's Story of Dogma v. Darwin in Small-Town America
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
“A brilliant account” of the controversial 2005 legal battle between evolution and creationism in public education “by a first-rate journalist” (Howard Zinn).
In 2004, the School Board of Dover, Pennsylvania, decided to require its ninth-grade biology students to learn intelligent design—a...
Unprofitable Schooling
Examining the Causes of, and Fixes for, America's Broken Ivory Tower
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
Most economies advance by simultaneously decreasing costs and increasing quality. Unfortunately, when it comes to higher education, this has been turned on its head. Costs keep rising while quality declines. How has this happened? What can be done?
This exceptional volume looks at the issues...
by Giulio Ferroni
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 17, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 17, 2015
Di quale scuola abbiamo bisogno? Di una scuola che risponda alle richieste del presente o che invece prepari a resistere alle difficoltà del futuro? Giulio Ferroni affronta l’attuale riforma della scuola con sguardo critico, mette in discussione gli astratti modelli pedagogici e la pretesa di subordinare...
Tested
One American School Struggles to Make the Grade
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2007
The pressure is on at schools across America. In recent years, reforms such as No Child Left Behind have created a new vision of education that emphasizes provable results, uniformity, and greater attention for floundering students. Schools are expected to behave more like businesses and judged almost...
Stateless Law
Evolving Boundaries of a Discipline
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
This volume offers a critical analysis and illustration of the challenges and promises of ’stateless’ law thought, pedagogy and approaches to governance - that is, understanding and conceptualizing law in a post-national condition. From common, civil and international law perspectives, the collection...
Ending Zero Tolerance
The Crisis of Absolute School Discipline
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Ending Zero Tolerance answers the calls of grassroots communities pressing for integration and increased education funding with a complete rethinking of school discipline.
In the era of zero tolerance, we are flooded with stories about schools issuing draconian punishments for relatively innocent...
Legal Education
Simulation in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
The importance of simulation in education, specifically in legal subjects, is here discussed and explored within this innovative collection. Demonstrating how simulation can be constructed and developed for learning, teaching and assessment, the text argues that simulation is a pedagogically valuable...
Property Ownership and Private Higher Education in China
On What Grounds?
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2011
Recent decades have witnessed the proliferation in China of huge numbers of private universities and colleges in response to a wide-ranging spectrum of socio-economic and political demands under the country's flourishing market economy and its wholesale pursuit of decentralization. This book explores...