InfoGuides: Educational Leadership: Education Leadership &amp; the Law

Key Databases & Journals

Education Database This link opens in a new window
Gives users access to over 900 educational publications, including more than 600 of the titles in full text from 1988 to present. Coverage spans the literature on primary, secondary and higher education as well as special education, home schooling, and adult education.
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Education Research Complete This link opens in a new window
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Covers all aspects of education including multilingual education, health education, testing, curriculum instruction, administration, policy, funding, and all levels of education from early childhood to higher education. Provides indexing for over 1,800 journals, as well as full-text for over 900 journals, 81 books, and numerous education-related conference papers. Tutorial for the Education Research Complete database.
Social Sciences Citation Index This link opens in a new window
Indexes more than 3,000 journals across 55 social science disciplines, as well as selected items from 3,500 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals. Covers from 1900 to the present. Part of Web of Science.
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ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Access (searching and browsing) journals and eBooks published by Elsevier and its partners. Covers most disciplines, including science, medicine, economics and the social sciences.
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Educational Administration Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Abstracts of literature concerning educational administration, including educational leadership, educational management, and educational research.
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More Education Databases

Additional may be found on the Education subject on the Library's website

HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
Image-based legal research database includes such collections as: Legal Classics, Law Journal Library, U.S. Supreme Court Library, U.S. Federal Legislative History Library, Treaties and Agreements Library and more. Bridges the gap in legal history by providing comprehensive coverage from inception of law and law-related periodicals.
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Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Provides access to a wide range of news (includes New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times), business (company news, industry forecasts), government (legislative news, tax information), legal (news, case law) and reference information. Formerly LexisNexis Academic. Tutorial for the Nexis Uni database.
Oxford Academic - Law Collection This link opens in a new window
Contains 1,200 peer-reviewed monographs, with new works added three times each year.

Brigham Young University Education & Law Journal
highlights legal and policy issues currently affecting elementary, secondary, and higher education
from 1992 to present
Education Law Journal
Focuses on issues arising from the interaction of law and education at the elementary, secondary and post-secondary levels
from 2005 to present
International Journal for Education Law and Policy
Provides a critical review of contemporary developments in educational law.
from 2005 to present
Journal of Law and Education
Devoted exclusively to school law, with emphasis on critical current & emerging issues, serving both the legal & educational professions.
from 01/01/2005 to the present
Yearbook of Education Law
Contains analyses of the previous year's federal and state court decisions that affect private and public elementary and secondary schools and higher education.
from 1997 to present

E-Books & Books

Achieving Evidence-Informed Policy and Practice in Education
This book brings together seven chapters that encompass a range of research projects and ideas in relation to evidence-informed policy and practice (EIPP) in education. These projects and ideas all share a single overarching purpose: providing insight into how EIPP in education can be achieved.
Proquest e-Book
The Anthropology of Education Policy: Ethnographic Inquiries into Policy As Sociocultural Process
Demonstrating how education policy operates as a social, cultural, and deeply ideological process "on the ground," each chapter clearly delineates the implications of these understandings for educational access, opportunity, and equity.
Proquest e-Book
Educational Policy Goes to School: Case Studies on the Limitations and Possibilities of Educational Innovation
Educational policies explicitly implemented in order to reduce educational gaps and promote access and success for disenfranchised youth can backfire--and often have the unintended result of widening those gaps. In this interdisciplinary collection of case studies, contributors examine cases of policy backfire, when policies don't work, have unintended consequences, and when policies help.
Proquest e-Book
Gender Fairness in Today's School
This book traces back how male This book traces back how male students are currently disadvantaged in school by instruction in an overwhelmingly female environment devoid of male role models, who can inspire the love of learning in male students. Further, teachers are unduly influenced by biases related to compliant behaviors which result in conflating assessments of student academic achievement with compliance.
Proquest e-Book
Leading Educational Systems and Schools in Times of Disruption and Exponential Change
This book provides an analysis of the impact of disruptive environments on education. It closely examines and synthesizes international literature on how educational systems in a number of countries are successfully transforming educational delivery processes to better prepare students for an increasingly disrupted world.
EBSCO e-Book
Measuring Race: Why Disaggregating Data Matters for Addressing Educational Inequality
This volume brings together the expertise of scholars from a range of disciplines to explore the current state of racial heterogeneity, data practice, and educational inequality. They offer recommendations to guide future research, practice, and policy with the goal of better understanding and meeting the needs of our diverse student population in the years to come.
EBSCO e-Book
Moral Panics and School Educational Policy
Teachers, students, indeed all members of school communities, along with educational administrators and politicians can learn from this study of the impact of moral panics on school educational policy.
Proquest e-Book
The Palgrave Handbook of Education Law for Schools
ISBN: 9783319777504
he chapters will empower principals and teachers in the management of these concerns. This wide-ranging handbook, including case studies from around the world, will be of interest and value to both scholars of education law and practitioners.
Springer e-Book
Shaping Education Policy: Power & Process
Shaping Education Policy is a comprehensive overview of education politics and policy, which provides conceptual guideposts for future policy development and strategies for change. Leading scholars explore the interacting social processes and the dynamics of power politics as they intersect with democratic ideals and shape school performance.
Proquest e-Book

Ebook Central This link opens in a new window
Access multi-disciplinary scholarly content from hundreds of publishers. Discover, evaluate, and access titles; and utilize tools for note-taking, highlighting, and instant citing. Read online and check individual entries for offline reading options including DRM-free chapter downloads and full book downloads. Note: Merges EBL Ebook Library and ebrary Academic Complete. Mason login required.
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EBSCO e-Book Collection
Ebsco eBook Collection includes 4,500 electronic books, or eBooks related to education. Subjects covered include: educational technology, educational change, psychology of learning, teaching and learning, multicultural education, educational philosophy, curriculum planning, and more.

SAGE Research Methods and Cases Online This link opens in a new window
Includes over 1,600 e-books on various aspects of education research methods (quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods sciences. Also includes a searchable collection of over 200 case studies of real education social research, commissioned and designed to help users understand abstract methodological concepts in practice.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
Provides online access to 63 education-related e-books published by Elsevier and its partners.

Springer eBook Collections
Provides access to more than 1,000 titles for education including: learning & instruction, linguistics, child & school psychology, linguistics, and higher education. The e-books are searchable down to the chapter level..

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Educational Law

Educational law and legislation--Virginia

Students--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States

Special education--Law and legislation--United States

School attendance--United States

Does Compliance Matter in Special Education?
This timely and thought-provoking book unpacks the civil rights history of IDEA, examines the impact of its procedural focus on educational practice, and questions why racial inequities in special education persist despite good intentions by policymakers, educators, and school personnel.
Fenwick Library
LC3981 .V68 2018
From Education to Incarceration: Dismantling the School-to-Prison-Pipeline
The book reveals various tenets contributing to unnecessary expulsions, leaving youth vulnerable to the streets and, ultimately, behind bars. From Education to Incarceration is a must-read for parents, teachers, law enforcement, judges, lawyers, administrators, and activists concerned with and involved in the juvenile justice and school system.
LB3012.2 .F76 2014
Fenwick stacks
Justice in Search of Leaders: A Handbook for Equity-Driven School Leadership
A guide for educators who are committed to equity-driven teaching, leading, and policy-making, and would like to operationalize socially just school practices for all children.
LB2805 .H6244 2018
Fenwick stacks
Leading in Change: Implications of School Diversification for School Leadership Preparation in England and the United States
Drawing together leading thinkers, researchers, and practitioners in the field of school leadership and management this text takes an international perspective to consider what we know about school diversification, and school leadership preparation. Theoretically and conceptually informed, the contributors' draw on recent empirical research studies and practitioner experience into school leadership preparation to examine how neoliberal and neoconservative policies are working in unison to privatize and corporatize public schools.
LB2806 .L323 2019
Fenwick stacks
Paradoxes of Reform: Change-Minded Superintendents, Language, Leadership, and Dualism of Progress
By embracing what this book calls boundary-spanning leadership and resisting the bureaucratization of the mind, these superintendents prevent their systems from becoming schooling machines with a non-democratic or counter-educative agenda.
LB2831.72 .T54 2018
Fenwick stacks
The Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind
Driver provides a fresh account of the historic legal battles, and argues that since the 1970s the Supreme Court has transformed public schools into Constitution-free zones. He highlights the personal narratives behind landmark clashes, and shows how the decisions have threatened our basic constitutional order.
KF4150 .D75 2018
Fenwick stacks

Online Education Law Resources

Affordable Colleges for Students with Disabilities
Contains information on higher education resources specifically for students with disability
Cornell Supreme Court Decisions
LII publishes electronic versions of core materials in numerous areas of the law, primarily on the Web. They range from the Constitution to the U.S. Code, from Supreme Court decisions to the Code of Federal Regulations as well as the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Bankruptcy Procedure, and Criminal Procedure.
Education Law: An Overview (Cornell Law School)
This site published the law online for free, creates materials that help people understand law, and explores new technologies that make it easier for people to find the law.
Education Law Commons
The Education Law Commons provides open access academic research from top universities on the subject of Education Law.
National Center for Learning Disabilities
Provides leadership, public awareness and grants to support research and innovative practices in learning disabilities
National Council on Disability
NCD is an independent federal agency charged with advising the President, Congress, and other federal agencies regarding policies, programs, practices, and procedures that affect people with disabilities.