This book is a collection of 19 addresses made at the 1978 annual convention of the National Organization on Legal Problems of Education (NOLPE). Some of the topics covered include: suits against school officials, Title IX, competency testing, teaching moral and spiritual values in public schools, the Bakke decision, unintended impacts of Supreme Court discipline decisions, reverse discrimination in black colleges, reduction in force, Public Law 94-142 and the nonhandicapped student, church-state relations in employment, religion in the public schools, private colleges, school board attorneys, educational malpractice, collective bargaining, and teacher evaluation. (Author/LD)