Table of Contents

• CHAPTER 1: The Importance of Ethical and Legal Decision Making
• CHAPTER 2: Legal Bodies Governing Education
• CHAPTER 3: Education, Religion, and Community Values
• CHAPTER 4: Student Privacy and First Amendment Rights
• CHAPTER 5: Due Process and Safe Schools
• CHAPTER 6: Student Search
• CHAPTER 7: Equal Protection
• CHAPTER 8: Children with Disabilities
• CHAPTER 9: Tort Liability
• CHAPTER 10: Teacher Employment, Supervision, and Collective Bargaining 
• CHAPTER 11: Teacher Constitutional Law
• CHAPTER 12: Computers and the Internet
• CHAPTER 13: Law, Ethics, and Educational Leadership: Making the Connection
• APPENDIX A: Amendments to the Constitution of the United States of America
• GLOSSARY
• INDEX  

About the Author

Professor David L. Stader currently serves as Department Chair of Educational Leadership and Counseling at Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Before coming into higher education, David spent nineteen years as a high school principal in Missouri. His primary research interest considers how changes in law and society influence the decision-making of campus leaders. He is the author of two recent textbooks entitled Law and Ethics in Educational Leadership published by Allyn & Bacon in 2007 and A Leaders Guide for Safe Schools, published by Christopher-Gordon Publishers in 2011. In addition, David has published numerous articles specifically related to his primary research interest. Professor Stader holds an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership from St. Louis University, St. Louis, Mo.