School Law for the Teachers: Concepts and Applications

Written in concise and accessible language School Law for Teachers: Concepts and Applications is written for both preservice and inservice teachers. It is meant to provide them with a broad legal background and to help them understand their rights and responsibilities as well as the rights of their students. It covers the issues that are of greatest concern to classroom teachers today, namely employment and tenure, teachers' rights, teachers' legal responsibilities, students' rights, education of students with disabilities, student discipline and due process, discrimination and harassment, religion and more.

Features include:

Links to state education statutes
For every major topic in each chapter, the student and instructor are able to access through the Companion Website state education statutes specific to that topic, allowing professors and students to see how broad legal principles and court decisions have been adopted and adapted in the education code of most states.

In The News
Presents the alternative legal positions on an issue related to chapter content that is currently in controversy and whose outcome is likely to have an important impact on teachers or students.

Landmark Cases decided by the Supreme Court
A brief summary of the facts and the U.S. Supreme Court decision of landmark cases related to chapter content are strategically presented in text boxes.

A summary list of Guiding Legal Principles
Presented at the end of each chapter, and can be used for study and review as well as a guide to classroom discussion.

You Be the Judge
Presents actual or real-life cases reflecting the legal issues discussed in the chapter and illustrating the complexity of cases involving a balance of the conflicting interests of teachers, students, parents, the school administration, and the public.

Authors: Julie Underwood and L. Dean Webb
Published: September 2005
ISBN: 0-13-119242-6
256 Pages