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Educational Law & Legislation eBooks

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  • A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door

    The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School

    A trenchant analysis of how public education is being destroyed in overt and deceptive ways—and how to fight backIn the “vigorous, well-informed” (Kirkus Reviews) A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door, the co-hosts of the popular education podcast Have You Heard expose the potent network of conservative elected officials, advocacy groups, funders, and think tanks that are pushing a radical vision to do ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Str8 Outta Maximum Security: Tales From The Inside

    Str8 Outta Maximum Security: Tales From The Inside

    by Mac Tatum ...
    Series series Str8 Outta Maximum Security: Tales From The Inside
    Mac provides a raw, realistic and comprehensive look inside the nations maximum-security prison system. If you have ever wondered what really goes on on the inside, this is the book for you. ... Read more

    $5.00 USD

  • Facing Reality

    Two Truths about Race in America

    The charges of white privilege and systemic racism that are tearing the country apart fIoat free of reality. Two known facts, long since documented beyond reasonable doubt, need to be brought into the open and incorporated into the way we think about public policy: American whites, blacks, Hispanics, and Asians have different violent crime rates and different means and distributions of cognitive ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Over Here

    How the G.I. Bill Transformed the American Dream

    by Edward Humes ...
    Extraordinary stories of ordinary men and women whose lives were changed forever by landmark legislation—and how they went on to change the country.Inspiring war stories are familiar. But what about after-the-war stories? From a Pulitzer Prize–winning author, Over Here is the Greatest Generation’s after-the-war story—vivid portraits of how the original G.I. Bill empowered an entire generation and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Making Sense of Religion in America's Public Schools

    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 schools.In 1947, the United States Supreme Court took a sharp left turn in its interpretation of the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Dream and Public Schools

    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 the same thing--an apparent conflict between policies designed to promote each student's ability to ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Your Legal Rights

    by Ann M. Smith ...
    This publication is the second in the Law related Education series produced by the Texas Lawyers Auxiliary. The first publication, NOW YOU ARE 18 (currently an app in the App Store), teaches 18-year olds their legal rights and responsibilities upon reaching adulthood. It is widely used in Texas high schools, in government, business law, and other classes.Your Legal Rights was developed out of the ... Read more

    Free

  • Bill Ratliff

    A Profile of Courage and Leadership in American Politics

    Lt. Governor Bill Ratliff is an engineer, a widely respected senator, and according to Caroline Kennedy he is “an inspiration to all who serve in government, and to all Americans.” Senator Ratliff, nicknamed “Obi Wan Kenobi” by his colleagues, was a revered and much loved leader in Texas for more than a decade. He singularly wrote the Texas Robin-Hood school finance law, a major Ethics reform law, ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Educator's Guide to Texas School Law

    Ninth Edition

    Much has changed in the area of school law since the first edition of The Educator’s Guide was published in 1986. This new ninth edition offers an authoritative source on all major dimensions of Texas school law through the 2017 legislative sessions. Intended for educators, school board members, interested attorneys, and taxpayers, the ninth edition explains what the law is and what the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Five Miles Away, A World Apart

    One City, Two Schools, and the Story of Educational Opportunity in Modern America

    by James E. Ryan ...
    How is it that, half a century after Brown v. Board of Education, educational opportunities remain so unequal for black and white students, not to mention poor and wealthy ones? In his important new book, Five Miles Away, A World Apart, James E. Ryan answers this question by tracing the fortunes of two schools in Richmond, Virginia--one in the city and the other in the suburbs. Ryan shows how ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • The Devil in Dover

    An Insider's Story of Dogma v. Darwin in Small-Town America

    by Lauri Lebo ...
    “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 pseudoscientific theory positing evidence of an intelligent creator. In a case that recalled the infamous 1925 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Creating a Learning Society

    A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress

    Series series Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture Series
    “A superb new understanding of the dynamic economy as a learning society, one that goes well beyond the usual treatment of education, training, and R&D.”—Robert Kuttner, author of The Stakes: 2020 and the Survival of American DemocracySince its publication Creating a Learning Society has served as an effective tool for those who advocate government policies to advance science and technology. It ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Versions of Academic Freedom

    From Professionalism to Revolution

    by Stanley Fish ...
    Series series The Rice University Campbell Lectures
    The author and New York Times columnist sheds light on the intersection of academia and politics with this look at the debate surrounding academic freedom.Depending on who’s talking, academic freedom is an essential bulwark of democracy, an absurd fig leaf disguising liberal agendas, or, most often, some in-between muddle that both exaggerates its own importance and misunderstands its actual value ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shattering Inequities

    Real-World Wisdom for School and District Leaders

    For education leaders who believe that all students deserve the premium education that only some currently experience, Shattering Inequities: Real-World Wisdom for School and District Leaders shows how your leadership can provide equitable outcomes for our most vulnerable students. Chapters include examples of actual equity leaders and leadership lessons as easily retrievable equity hooks—memory ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • College Preparation Checklist

    The foundational publication for any students (elementary, junior/high school, adult) who are considering college. This small booklet explains how to prepare academically and financially for college through "to do" lists aimed at students and parents. Simply worded information about federal aid, FAFSA4caster, what to do at FAFSA filing time, and looking for scholarships also is included. Readers ... Read more

    Free

  • Yale & The Ivy League Cartel: How a College Lost its Soul and Became a Hedge Fund

    The book reviews the development of “Old Yale” from its origin in 1701 to its death in the latter half of the 20th century, describes the Ivy League Cartel that prevents price competition among members and makes possible persistent price increases, and explains how the cartel has been preserved by skillful lawyering and political support of the academic establishment. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Your Classroom Guide to Special Education Law

    When you're teaching students who have special needs, what are your legal responsibilities? How can you provide appropriate, legally compliant special education services—and avoid pitfalls that could lead to due process hearings and court dates? Turn to this interactive quick guide for concise, accessible answers. The antidote to thick, cumbersome legal volumes, this book gives educators and ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Three Strikes and You’re Out!

    The Chronicle of America’s Toughest Anti-Crime Law

         This is the story of the toughest sentencing law in America as chronicled by those who were intimately involved in the fight to see it enacted, and who believe in it passionately.      It is the story of one family’s heartbreak, of behind-the-scenes political maneuvering by consistently soft-on-crime, liberal politicians in an effort to eviscerate the law, and it’s the story of the ultimate ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Badges and Incidents

    A Transdisciplinary History of the Right to Education in America

    Series series Cambridge Studies on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
    In Badges and Incidents, Michael J. Kaufman undertakes an interdisciplinary investigation of American education law and pedagogy. By weaving together the invaluable insights of law, education, history, political science, economics, psychology, and neuroscience, this book illuminates the ways in which the design of the American educational system does not reflect how human beings live and learn. It ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Does God Belong in Public Schools?

    Controversial Supreme Court decisions have barred organized school prayer, but neither the Court nor public policy exclude religion from schools altogether. In this book, one of America's leading constitutional scholars asks what role religion ought to play in public schools. Kent Greenawalt explores many of the most divisive issues in educational debate, including teaching about the origins of ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Tomorrow's Lawyers

    An Introduction to your Future

    In its first and second editions, Tomorrow's Lawyers became an international bestseller, widely read and cited by practitioners and students. The third edition focuses on the law and lawyers in the 2020s. For Richard Susskind, the future of legal service is neither Grisham nor Rumpole. Instead, he predicts a world of online courts, AI-based global legal businesses, disruptive legal technologies, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Educação básica

    Series series Coletânea de legislação
    Também conhecida como LDB (Lei de Diretrizes e Bases), a Lei nº 9.394/1996 regulamenta o sistema educacional do País, do nível básico ao superior, tanto no âmbito público quanto no privado. Ela reafirma o direito à educação, garantido pela Constituição, e define as responsabilidades da União, dos Estados, do Distrito Federal e dos Municípios. No volume figuram também os dispositivos ... Read more

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  • The Campus Rape Frenzy

    The Attack on Due Process at America's Universities

    In recent years, politicians led by President Obama and prominent senators and governors have teamed with extremists on campus to portray our nation’s institutions of higher learning as awash in a violent crime wave—and to suggest (preposterously) that university leaders, professors, and students are indifferent to female sexual assault victims in their midst. Neither of these claims has any ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Search for Common Ground

    Conversations About the Toughest Questions in K12 Education

    At a time of bitter national polarization, there is a critical need for leaders who can help us better communicate with one another. In A Search for Common Ground, Rick Hess and Pedro Noguera, who have often fallen on opposing sides of the ideological aisle over the past couple of decades, candidly talk through their differences on some of the toughest issues in K–12 education today—from school ... Read more

    $28.99 USD