Assignment Purpose: The purpose of this research paper is to bring together the various requirements, evidence, and facts about topics that teachers and administrators must know about school law, using books, journal articles, and other research based materials. As a graduate student, it is critical that you continue to stay abreast to current research in the area of school law in order to guide others and best serve your students.
Assignment Objectives: Students will demonstrate effective, graduate level writing skills and their understanding of a specific topic within school law.
Assignment Details: After selecting a school law topic of choice, students will collect research based educational materials to analyze and construct a 10-page paper to address the specific areas in the rubric below. Our course materials and textbook will be great resources and starting points for constructing this paper. Depending on the topic, you may choose to give a comprehensive overview of an area with general guidelines for practice, or you may examine selected issues after an overview. Perhaps you want to break down a topic into a component part, if you find that is too broad for purposes of this assignment. Where appropriate, you may focus on state laws or local school division policies.
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This assignment will explore your understanding of economic principles we have been studying as they apply to the field of Education. Education
encompasses approximately 6% of the GDP of the United States, or over $1T in spending. Consequently, there are many aspects of this broad area which
attract considerable public debate, and, in many instances, public expenditure.
Perform some research as to recent thought concerning the pros and the cons of taking some sort of public action within the topic you have selected. Your
research should include at least (2) references in favor of the action, and (2) in opposition, along with some sort of pertinent data, and a perspective of
anticipated future activity. This can be at the national, state, or local level.
Your paper should include a statement as to why this topic is economically significant, basic data (findings); a summary of the research, and a clear
demonstration in writing of an understanding of the relevant economic factors affecting the topic. Remember to use economic terminology appropriately,
and significantly limit any references from the textbook – a purpose of the assignment is to expand our knowledge beyond the text. Any graphs you may
arrive at may be included, although constructing such is not in any way required. All in all, your paper should end up at between 3 and 5 pages in length.