Education Law

3 credits · Peabody College - Professional

This course explores how law shapes, facilitates, and constrains preK-12 and higher education in the United States. In this course, we examine sources of governmental authority; discuss conflicts between educational institutions and liberty and property interests of students, educators, and families; and ask whether it is permissible for educational institutions to treat identifiable groups of education stakeholders differently. The course urges uses and engages critical and intersectional lenses in evaluating the impact of education law on students and educators of color, women and girls, LGBTQ individuals, and people with disabilities, using socioeconomic inequality as a guiding theme. [3]