The Edjurist - Information on School and Educational Law

Fordham has announced the winners of their Fordham Scholars program that is oriented toward educational law this year. Each of the winners will receive a $25,000 grant to investigate their topic and publish their results in peer-reviewed journals.

Nora Gordon, an economist at UCSD, plans to look at how litigation has affected homeschooling legislation.

Daniel Nadler, a Ph.D. student at Harvard in Government, plans to study influences on educational judicial ideologies.

And Jason Snyder, a teacher, Ph.D. candidate at Teacher's College, and former Hogan and Hartson lawyer (very impressive Jason, can't wait to get you into a ed. leadership faculty position soon), plans to survey school administrator's views on school authority in light of the additional discretion handed to them by the courts regarding school discipline issues.

All of them sound like great studies and I can't wait to see them in the journals. I want to congratulate the winners and commend the Fordham Foundation for awarding these grants looking into how the courts affect K-12 education. I hope you make that the theme every year!