COURSE READINGS:

 

Textbook

Stader. David L.  Law and ethics in educational leadership, 2nd. Ed.  New York: Pearson. ISBN-10:01327733455.

 

Course Resources

 

Font, S. and Gershoff, E.  (2017, Aug). Contextual Factors Associated with the Use of Corporal Punishment in U.S. Public Schools.  Children and Youth Service Review, 79.  

Friedmann, J. (2019, Dec).  A Girl's Right to Bare Arms: An Equal Protection Analysis of Public-School Dress Codes.  Boston College Law Review, 60:8. 

Holden, B.  (2018) Tinker Meets the Cyberbully: A Federal Circuit Conflict Round-Up and Proposed New Standard for Off-Campus Speech. Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal, 28:2.  

Hong, J., Espelage, D., and Lee, J. (2018).  School Climate and Bullying Prevention Programs.  The Wiley Handbook on Violence in Education: Forms, Factors, and Preventions, First Edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.  

James-Burdumy, S. et al.  (2010, July).  The Effectiveness of Mandatory Random Student Drug Testing: Executive Summary.  NCEE 2010-4026: U.S. Department of Education.  

Nowak, B. and Glenn, W. (2017, fall).  Searches of Students’ Cell Phones: Case Analysis and Best Practices.  Education Leadership Review of Doctoral Research, 5.  

O’Connor, K. and Schmidt, G. (2015, March).  “Facebook Fired”: Legal Standards for Social Media–Based Terminations of K-12 Public School Teachers.  Journal of Workplace Rights.  

Pigott, C., Stearns, A., and Khey, D.  (2017, July).  School Resource Officers and the School to Prison Pipeline: Discovering Trends of Expulsions in Public Schools.  Southern Criminal Justice Association.  

Wolf, K. (2018, April). Assessing Students' Civil Rights Claims Against School Resource Officers.  Pace Law Review, 38:2.  

 

Alexander, K., (2018). The law of schools, students and teachers in a nutshell. St. Paul: West.

 

Arbetman, L. A. (2016). Street law: A course in practical law. New York: West Educational Publishing.

 

Blackwell, A., (2004). The essential dictionary of law. City: Barnes & Noble.

 

Dougherty, John W. (2004). Torts and liability: An educators short guide. Bloomington, IN: Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation.

 

Essex, Nathan (2014). A teacher’s pocket guide to school law. Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon.

 

Essex, Nathan (2016). School law and public schools. Boston, MA: Pearson.

 

Kelly, Evelyn B. (2006). Legal basics: A handbook for educators. Bloomington, IN: Phi   Delta Kappa International.

 

Fisher, Louis; Kelly, Cynthia; and Schimmel, D. (2014). Teachers and the law. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.

 

La Morte, Michael W. (2011). School law: Cases and concepts. Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon.

 

Olivas, M., & Greff, R. (2007). Education law stories. Westbury: Foundation Press.

 

Schimmel, D., Fischer, L., & Stellman, L. (2008). School law. Boston: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon.

 

Underwood, J. (2018). The state of teacher tenure. Phi Delta Kappan, 99 (7), 76-77.

 

Underwood, J. (2018). School uniforms, dress codes, and free expression: What’s the balance? Phi Delta Kappan, 99 (6), 74-75.

 

Underwood, J. (2018). Under the law: Defining the least restrictive environment. Phi Delta Kappan, 100 (3), 66-67.

 

Yell, Mitchell (2012). Special education and the law. New York: Pearson.

 

Websites

 

The Legal Information Institute (LII) is a research and electronic publishing activity of the Cornell Law School. http://www.law.cornell.edu/ 

 

The National School Boards Association website includes a section on school law. This is a great place to review recent court cases. The Legal Clips section is a must see. Membership is required to access some areas. https://www.nsba.org

 

The First Amendment Center has a variety of resources for teachers including lesson plans. https://www.freedomforuminstitute.org/first-amendment-center/ 

 

Landmarkcases.org is a site that was developed to provide teachers with a full range of resources and activities to support the teaching of landmark Supreme Court cases.http://www.landmarkcases.org

 

The Oyez Project is a multimedia archive devoted to the Supreme Court of the United States and its work. This is great place to look up case summaries. http://www.oyez.org/

 

This is a good site for information about special education law, education law, and advocacy for children with disabilities. http://www.wrightslaw.com/

 

This is the home site for the Bill of rights Institute. http://www.billofrightsinstitute.org/

 

This site has a link to all states with many links to state government sites. http://govengine.com

 

The Supreme Court’s website.  www.supremecourtus.gov

 

 

Fedlaw links to federal laws and regulations – 61 categories of laws.  If you wish to look up full text of copyright law, FERPA, or IDEA, here is the place to go.http://www.thecre.com/fedlaw/default.htm

 

Student Press Law Center is a good first amendment website. http://www.splc.org/

 

 

This is the best home page on copyright and fair use law on the net. It has links to primary materials, current legislation, internet resources, and overview of the law. http://fairuse.stanford.edu/

 

Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) Federal government website. http://www.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/ferpa/index.html

 

Council for Exceptional Children website. http://www.cec.sped.org/

 

Education Law Association’s home page with access to the Reporter and EdLaw Notes http://www.educationlaw.org

 

This is an education law blog that includes recent school law cases. http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/school_law/ 

 

Law for Teachers Webinars by the South Carolina Bar Association. A good website to explore a topic in depth.

https://www.scbar.org/public/students-educators/law-teachers-webinar-registration/lft-content-page/

 

A short You Tube video on how the Supreme Court works. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sualy8OiKk

 

A short You Tube video on the Supreme Court building. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unyswl36q8w