Legal Update Project Bibliography

Cambron-McCabe, N. H., McCarthy, M. M., & Eckes, S. E. (2014). Legal Rights of Teachers and
Students (Third ed., pp. 41-118).
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.
In this nonfiction text the authors address issues that are important for current teachers and
administrators to
understand. This book is intended to help educators feel more comfortable
with potential concerns they may have.
The authors all currently work at universities
across the United States and were hoping to provide a text that covers the important issues while
keeping it simple enough for educators who are not law experts to understand.
We found this text to be very useful in helping us understand the first amendment rights of
students. Chapters 3-5 proved to be especially useful as they address the church/state relationship,
instructional issues, and student
expression/appearance.

Julka, M. J., Lewis, S., & Verstegen, R. F. (2004, May). Student Dress Codes [Electronic
version]. Principal Leadership, 57-62.
The article about the Castorina v. Madison County School Board (2001) came from a national
magazine which
provides information that is important to current school administrators. This
magazine is said to provide principals with the strategies and knowledge needed in a changing world
of education. This magazine chose to print and article
about student dress codes which
brought up the Castorina case where two students were fighting for their right to
wear a shirt
which displayed a confederate flag.
This magazine article proved to be useful as it gave information about the Castorina case. In
this case it was decided
that the students could wear shirts with the confederate flag if there
was no foreseeable disruption to the
educational process. It was decided that this right fell under
the students protected freedom of speech.

The Five Freedoms. (2015, March 5). In First Amendment Center. Retrieved March 5, 2015, from
http://www.firstamendmentschools.org/freedoms/freedomsindex.aspx
This website provides links to frequently asked questions and court cases that relate to first
amendment rights in schools. The site is run by a group named the First Amendment Center. Their
website states that they are a national
initiative designed to transform how schools model and
teach the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.
This proved to be helpful in providing background information about court cases that involved
the freedom of speech, press, religion, and right to assemble. The frequently asked questions portion
of this site also helped answer some
important questions about first amendment rights in schools.

United States Supreme Court. (1969, February 24). Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community
School District. Retrieved
from http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/comm/free_speech/tinker.html
This website provided a full text of the United States Supreme Court opinion in the case of
Tinker v. Des Moines
Independent School District. This is the foremost ruling on first amendment
rights in schools.
For the purpose of this project the Tinker case provided us with the important ruling that
students are allowed to
express themselves as long as it does not become a disruption to the
educational process. This case has been used in
many other rulings since and we a necessary
part of our project.

Your 1st Amendment Rights. (2012). In Judicial Learning Center. Retrieved from
http://judiciallearningcenter.org/your-1stamendment-rights/
This source is a website run by the Judicial Learning Center. The mission of the Judicial Learning
Center is selfdescribed as to promote public understanding of the function and value of
the judicial branch of government,
especially at the federal level. The JLC claims to be the only
education center that specifically informs about the
federal court system.
This website was helpful as it provided information about the first amendment and specifically
how it can be applied in education. This site was used to learn more about the first amendment right
of freedom of speech and how students can use it.