This handbook assists teachers, administrators, and other members of the educational community in avoiding inappropriate religious activities in the public schools as well as unnecessary interference with legitimate private religious expression by clarifying existing law. Participants in the Task Force on Religion and the Constitution represented a number of different religions and perspectives on the First Amendment's Establishment Clause, which prohibits government endorsement of religion, and the Free Exercise Clause, which requires government to make reasonable accommodation for individual religious expression. The handbook explains the basic principles of the First Amendment and clarifies their relevance to the issues of school prayer, religion in the curriculum, equal access to school facilities, holiday celebrations, the distribution of materials to students by outside organizations, and the religious freedom of teachers. For each issue, the handbook provides a list of questions and answers related to concrete situations such as whether a kindergarten student may show a videotape of herself singing a religious song during show-and-tell. The appendix presents a bibliography on religious freedom, a list of organizations concerned with religious freedoms in the schools, the membership list of the Task Force on Religion and the Constitution, and the National Council for the Social Studies Position Statement "Study about Religions in the Social Studies Curriculum." (JD)