Welner / Chi Current Issues in Educational Policy and the Law

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-60752-726-8
Verlag: Information Age Publishing
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 289 Seiten

Reihe: Educational Policy and 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, as well as the teaching of immigrant students. Written for a general audience, this new twelvechapter book explores these compelling educational policy issues through that legal lens, building an understanding of both law and policy. The book's editors are Kevin Welner, associate professor of educational policy at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Wendy Chi, a doctoral candidate at Boulder. Both Welner and Chi are lawyers as well as educational scholars.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Welner, Kevin G.

Chi, Wendy C.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Cover;1
2;Contents;5
3;Introduction;7
4;PART I:NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND;11
4.1;1. Tipping the Balance: Examining the Federal-State RelationshipThrough No Child Left Behind and the Future ofPublic Education Governance;13
4.2;2. Reconsidering a Fundamental Right to Education in Light ofNo Child Left Behind;35
4.3;PART II:SCHOOL FINANCE AND ADEQUACY;53
4.4;3. Funding Public Schools: Striving for Substantive Adequacy;55
4.5;4. Breaking the Nexus: Four State’s Experiences With ReformingSchool Finance to Increase Student Achievement for StudentsFrom All Backgrounds;77
5;PART III:SCHOOL CHOICE;107
5.1;5. Parental Decision Making and Educational Opportunity;109
5.2;6. Child in the Middle: Self-Determination and the Parent-StateBattle for Educational Control;131
5.3;7. Charter School Liability;145
6;PART IV:REFRAMING EQUAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY TODAY;161
6.1;8. Getting Back to Where We Started From: The Failure ofProxy-Based Policies and a Possible Return to Plessy;163
6.2;9. Ending the DREAM of Plyler v. Doe: Examining DemocraticParticipation and Educational Opportunity Through theLanguage of Plyler;183
7;PART V:STUDENT AND TEACHER RIGHTS IN SCHOOLS;199
7.1;10. Zero Tolerance Polices: A Precarious Balance Between SchoolSafety and Educational Opportunity for All;201
7.2;11. Seeking a State of Balance in Teachers’ Freedom of Speech:Analyzing the Teacher Speech Tightrope and the Erratic LegalWinds;229
7.3;12. Straddling the Wall: What’s Gained and Lost in the SupremeCourt’s Willingness to Allow More Fraternization BetweenChurch and State?;251
8;Appendix: Definitions and Explanations of Key Terms;279
9;About the Contributors;283