num_pages: 344
description: This clearly written text, which is adapted from its parent volume, Education Law, 3e, provides a concise introduction to topics in education law that are most relevant to classroom teachers. The greater the likelihood of litigation or legal error in an area of professional practice, the more extensive the discussion. Topics concerning teacher relationships with their students student rights, discipline, negligence, discrimination, and special education. Topics concerning teacher relationships with their employers teacher rights, hiring and firing, contracts, unions, collective bargaining, and tenure. Key features include the * Presentation --To aid comprehension, technical legal terms are carefully explained when first introduced and discussions of complex topics move logically from overview to elaboration of important details to summary of key topics and principles. * Flexibility --Because it is concise and affordable, A Teacher's Guide to Education Law can be used in a variety of courses or professional seminars. * New Material --Topics that have been added or significantly expanded in the Third Edition the No Child Left Behind Act, student rights especially in the areas of free speech and search and seizure, employment discrimination, racial and sexual harassment of students and school employees, affirmative action and voluntary school integration, issues relating to use of the Internet, and the law relating to special student populations.
language: English
title: A Teacher's Guide to Education Law
titlecomplete: A Teacher's Guide to Education Law
ratings_count: 10
publisher: Routledge