New Education Law Blogs

Since we last spoke, the blogosphere has nearly doubled in terms of sites devoted to educational law, and there are some really good new blogs!!! My favorite new education law related blog is At the Schoolhouse Gate. It is run by Scott McLeod, who is an educational leadership professor at the University of Minnesota. It posts on all topics related to educational law, but does a particularly good job of analyzing educational technology issues in terms of the law.

Also, another general educational law blog, "Educational Law & Policy" is being run out of Chicago by a lawyer and Ph.D. student named Jason Odeshoo. It seems to just be getting started, but it has a nice analysis of all the different concurrences and dissents in the Morse v. Frederick case here. Let's hope for good things from this blog.

Finally, one last one to mention. A friend of mine, Jim Gerl, has started the "Special Education Law Blog." It is pretty focused on special education due process issues, but given that Jim is one of the most respected national experts in this area, the information in it should be very helpful. Jim is a little concerned about this new blogging experience, so go over and support his blog.

Other blogs that I keep on my Technorati favorites list related to educational law include: Board Buzz (from the NSBA); the other "Special Education Law Blog" written by Charles Fox an attorney in Illinois, which has been a consistently good blog for going on two years now; and finally at The FAPE Page, Sanford Hausler has been going strong providing good information on special education law for three years. As soon as I get this new webbuilding softward to cooperate with the sidebar, I will post a blogroll of all these links.

Okay...I hear the calls for encore, encore -- so just one more new one. I really like the Higher Ed Law Prof Blog, which is run by James Castagnera (Rider University) and Patrick Cihon (Syracuse University). They have some interesting recent thoughts on higher ed security issues in the wake of the VT shooting.

Okay, that's what I am watching in the educational law blogosphere. What are you watching. Let us know if we missed one of your favorites.

Comments

[Jim Castagnera]

Thanks for the kind words about our higher-ed-law blog. Here's something else you may enjoy:

http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/40596.html