Law

Wasting Minds: Why Our Education System Is Failing and What We Can Do about It

The founding editor of Education Week and Teacher Magazine explains how the flawed assumptions that have shaped the debate on school reform for decades have hampered progress and proposes alternative assumptions as the basis for a whole new system of...

The School Law Handbook: What Every Leader Needs to Know

A parent objects to a curriculum that includes a unit on Greek gods, arguing that it violates the separation of church and state. As a teacher or administrator, how should you respond? This type of issue is one most educators will have to confront...

The Internet and the Law: What Educators Need to Know

With its easily obtainable wealth of information, the Internet has proven to be both a boon and a challenge for today’s public schools. Teachers can download lesson plans and participate in online professional development courses; students can access...

The First Amendment in Schools: A Guide from the First Amendment Center

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects the most basic and cherished rights of society—religion, speech, press, petition, and assembly. Anyone who wants to know more about those freedoms in the context of schools will find The First...

Bullying and Harassment: A Legal Guide for Educators

Incidents of bullying, harassment, and threats in schools are growing, but the line between students’ rights to expression and the school’s rights to protect children and faculty is increasingly blurred. To create effective disciplinary and management...

We Must Say No to the Status Quo: Educators as Allies in the Battle for Social Justice by Veronica McDermott

It takes more than good intentions to make meaningful changeThe “spirit slashing” of injustice: that’s what Veronica McDermott calls the psychic toll that marginalized students face every day. Students can be marginalized because of...

Copyright Clarity: How Fair Use Supports Digital Learning by Renee Hobbs

This jargon-free guide clarifies principles for applying copyright law to 21st-century education, discusses what is permissible in the classroom, and explores the fair use of digital materials.