Find Information on Education and the Law?

ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
On the E-Resource list OR from the Social Sciences Library webpage> Crime, Law & Justice>Lexis-Nexis Academic.

LEXIS-NEXIS Academic --the fastest route to finding a court case report about,
for example, special needs children's rights, Student's rights and Freedom of Speech,
Sexual Harassment or faculty tenure.

Go to Legal Research >Area of Law by Topic, > Education Law and enter keywords.
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/form/academic/s_guidednews.html

Finding an Education Bill in Lexis-Nexis Academic
Example: The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001

~For actual text of the NCLB Act, search Congressional> Laws>Public Law 107-110 or keyword.

~For commentary about NCLB Act of 2001, search Legal News or News feature.

~For resolutions and amendments of the Act, search Congressional link>Bills.

FINDLAW: Law, Legal News and Commentary at http://www.findlaw.com.
A somewhat more user-friendly website, also available from the Social Sciences Library website.

Under Legal Professionals link, search Cases & Codes for full text of law. (Title 20-Education).
Below, US State Laws links us to Pennsylvania, its Code online and selected statutes.

Also on Legal Professionals page, search Legal Subjects> Education Law for agencies,
lawyers, databases etc.

On Legal Professionals page, search possible topics such as "student rights", "foreign student monitoring", "freedom of speech."

PRINT RESOURCES
Weekly Reporters summarize new legislation in layman terminology for the
general public and other non-legal eagles.

General Education Law

Education Law
A seven-volume set law report specific to Education, updated annually.
KF4119 .R36 3rd floor Paterno

Education Law Reporter/West's Education Law Reporter
A weekly law report that outlines changes in Education Law in layman terms.
KF4118.W4 (1982-date) Business Lib 3rd floor Paterno

Education Law Digest
Index to all cases in West's education law reporter
KF4118 .W42 Business Lib 3rd floor Paterno

Special Education and the Law
Education for the Handicapped Law Report
KF4210.A6E38 Reference Soc. Sci. Legal Alcove, 2nd Paterno

Individuals with Disabilities Education Law Report
KF4210 .A6 E388 Reference Soc. Sci. Legal Alcove, 2nd Paterno

Chronological coverage in LEXIS-NEXIS varies. For example, the Legal Research feature contains all federal laws from 1988, only 15% of law reviews before 1990 and Supreme Court decisions from 1789 to the present. The following print resources, updated annually, will fill in the gaps or provide historical perspective with references
to text of the law, specific court cases and their corresponding law reporters and other references.

For additional coverage, search the following print resources for references to legal
cases and the law… … (a slow, tedious process, a last resort)

American Jurisprudence (KF154.A5) search by Topic
Corpus Juris Secundum (KF154 .C62) search by Topic

Highlights of Penn State Law Collection--- a tidy summary of our legal print collection
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/socialsciences/law/highlaw.htm

US Code: Title 20 -Education KF62.A1
The actual text of Federal Law. Select "Title " volume by topic and browse Table
of Contents for text of the law and references to particular cases and their reviews or search online from Academic Universe to Congressional Universe>
Laws > US Code. Also online at http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/. Corresponding court reporters are located in the KF call number on the 3rd floor of Paterno.

Pennsylvania Statutes: Title 24-Education KFP30.P8
The actual text of Pennsylvania law in print or online from Academic Universe
to State Capital Universe. Print edition is updated annually.

PA Code Title 22-Education KFP31.P45
The regulations and rules by which Pennsylvania state agencies must abide in implementing the text of the Pennsylvania statutes. For example, process and procedure, notification requirements, time limits for appeals etc. Our print edition is updated monthly. Online at: http://www.pacode.com/
(eg. Teacher tenure, Ch. 35)

To assist further in a court case search, you might contact Rebecca Bichel, Social Sciences Librarian, 208 Paterno Library, Email: rmb26@psu.edu.
NOTE: Librarians CANNOT offer legal advice but will assist patrons in researching the law.

Reference Resources in EBSL
Higher Education Law in America KF4210 .Y45 1998
The Law and Special Education KF4225. H54 2001
Legal Basics: A Handbook for Educators KF4110.3.U15 2001
US Supreme Court Education Cases KF4195.K45 1998
Teen Legal Rights: A Guide for the 90's KF479 .H46 1994

Serial Publication: Journal of Law and Education, from 1972--date,
LB2523.J42, 5th floor Paterno, Education & Behavioral Sciences Library

Contemporary World Issues Series (located in Social Sciences Library)
Reference handbooks provide a comprehensive overview of selected current topics
of interest, many of which are related to education:
Religion in the Schools Censorship in America
School Violence Children's Rights
Violent Children Gangs
Childhood Sex Abuse Sex, Youth and Sex Education
Student Rights Alternative Schools (NewKens campus)

Contemporary Education Issues Series (located in Education & Beh. Sci. Library)
----African American Education-- LC2741.J33 2001
----Bilingual Education--LC3731.F45 2002
----Special Education --LC3981.S33 2001
----The Assessment Debate--LB3051.J36 2001
----Teacher Training--LB2165.P87 2001
----Migrant Education: A Reference Handbook--LC5151.G68 2001
----Charter Schools--LB2806.36.W45 2000
----Educational Leadership --- LB2805.W517 2002

Government Documents in Print-U.S. Department of Education
As a federal depository library, the University Libraries maintains a complete collection of the U.S. Department of Education's publications in print and microform in the ED call number of the Social Sciences collection on the second floor of Paterno Library.

Education Statistics

EDUCATION Flashback!
From the Statistics and Data page, under Demographics, search Historical Census
Data from Harvard: Education. Search historical education data from 1790
through 1960 at http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census/

1840~~ search basic education information in Economy feature
1850~~ search Schools, Education and Literacy
1860~~ no Education statistics enumerated
1870~~search Education and Literacy
1880~~no Education statistics enumerated
1890~~search Schools feature

Statistical Universe
Search the Power Tables feature for Education Statistics, Expenditures reports, census data from federal government agencies etc. This database contains Census Bureau data which is often more accessible here than at the Census Bureau website which receives heavy traffic.

US Census Bureau: Topic of Education in the American Fact Finder feature
http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/BasicFactsServlet

Datasets for Education (ICPSR)
The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is a membership-based, non-profit social science data archive at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. A link for Education data is available at:
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/access/subject.html#V

Print codebooks for interpretation of data are located in the Social Sciences collection.