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Direct linkKim, Robert – Phi Delta Kappan, 2022
Past U.S. Supreme Court rulings have held that schools and school employees must be careful to engage in religious activities while at school that could appear to endorse a particular religion above others or coerce students to engage in religious activities. However, the June 2022 Kennedy v. Bremerton School District opinion suggests that the…
Descriptors: State Church Separation, Religion, School Prayer, Court Litigation
Roberts, Robert – NASSP Bulletin, 2022
The United States Supreme Court in Kennedy v. Bremerton Sch. Dist. held that a local school district violated the First Amendment freedom of religious expression rights when it directed an assistant football coach to stop praying on the fifty-yard line of a high school football field after each game. In finding for the high-school football coach,…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Constitutional Law, Religion, State Church Separation
Bindewald, Benjamin J. – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2015
This article provides an overview of the socio-political, cultural, and historical characteristics of the relationship between conservative Christians and the American system of public education; describes the influence of fundamentalist views on contemporary conservative Christians; and recounts the historical relationship between the Religious…
Descriptors: Christianity, Religious Factors, Public Schools, Public Education
Bennett, Tom; Foldesy, George – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2008
The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the U. S. Constitution sets forth the separation of church and state required in public schools. That clause has been interpreted in a lengthy history of U. S. Supreme Court decisions. Nevertheless, accommodating one person's right of religious expression while not infringing on another person's…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, State Church Separation
Peer reviewedSchamel, Wynell Burroughs; Mueller, Jean West – Social Education, 1989
Reviews a series of First Amendment court cases related to school prayer and Bible reading, including the 1963 decision (Abington v. Schempp) against a Pennsylvania law requiring Bible reading and prayer recitation. Provides suggestions for teaching this case using a portion of Justice Tom C. Clark's opinion of the Supreme Court. Reproducible…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Law Related Education
