Advanced Law and Education

Catalog description

This seminar examines selected major legal issues in education and focuses upon the interaction between legal decisions and educational practices. Topics include state regulation of public and private education such as limits of governmental socialization and curriculum determination; academic freedom; school control of student conduct, status, and expression; classification of students -- testing, grouping, and grading; racial imbalance; equal educational opportunity in financing schools, bilingual education, and special education; distribution of power within the public educational system; control of teacher conduct including tenure, dismissal, and collective bargaining.