EDU 507 : Law, Policy and Ethical Decision-Making

EDU 507 introduces a critical and pragmatic examination of leadership through key legal and policy contexts that govern daily and long-range ethical decision-making by educational leaders. The course examines the law and policies that govern educational organizations in relation to the cultural, social, economic and political standards embodied in state and federal codes, case law, and the policies that educational leaders encounter in their day-to-day work. Addressing the following seminal questions, the course takes a two pronged approach of law and the policies it produces framed by the ethical educational leader: Whose right to an education? What does it mean to be educated within policies and laws? How should we think about school, success, and opportunity in a democratic society? What is the pragmatic stance for the ethical school leader with educational policy? Law and policy development is undergirded by the relationship between a leader’s values and decision making.

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Subject

Graduate School Courses

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3