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Current issues in educational policy and the law /
"Educational policy controversies in the United States invariably implicate legal issues. Policy debates about testing and school choice, for example, cannot be disentangled from legal rights and mandates. The same is true for issues such as funding, campus safety, speech and religion rights, a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Charlotte, N.C. :
Information Age Publishing, Inc.,
2008.
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| Colección: | Educational policy and law.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Introduction; PART I:NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND; CH1. Tipping the Balance: Examining the Federal-State Relationship Through No Child Left Behind and the Future of Public Education Governance; CH2. Reconsidering a Fundamental Right to Education in Light of No Child Left Behind; PART II:SCHOOL FINANCE AND ADEQUACY; CH3. Funding Public Schools: Striving for Substantive Adequacy; CH4. Breaking the Nexus: Four State's Experiences With Reforming School Finance to Increase Student Achievement for Students From All Backgrounds; PART III:SCHOOL CHOICE.
- CH5. Parental Decision Making and Educational OpportunityCH6. Child in the Middle: Self-Determination and the Parent-State Battle for Educational Control; CH7. Charter School Liability; PART IV:REFRAMING EQUAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY TODAY; CH8. Getting Back to Where We Started From: The Failure of Proxy-Based Policies and a Possible Return to Plessy; CH9. Ending the DREAM of Plyler v. Doe: Examining Democratic Participation and Educational Opportunity Through the Language of Plyler; PART V:STUDENT AND TEACHER RIGHTS IN SCHOOLS.
- CH10. Zero Tolerance Polices: A Precarious Balance Between School Safety and Educational Opportunity for AllCH11. Seeking a State of Balance in Teachers' Freedom of Speech: Analyzing the Teacher Speech Tightrope and the Erratic Legal Winds; CH12. Straddling the Wall: What's Gained and Lost in the Supreme Court's Willingness to Allow More Fraternization Between Church and State?; Appendix: Definitions and Explanations of Key Terms; About the Contributors.