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Direct linkEpley, B. Glen – NASSP Bulletin, 2007
Public school leaders often find themselves caught between groups with passionately held--but widely varying--views regarding the appropriate role for religion in public schools. Tensions are heightened by the growth of well-funded special interest groups inclined to litigate anywhere a test case arises. By reviewing the most recent judicial…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Constitutional Law, Public Schools, State Church Separation
McCarthy, Martha – 1987
This document is one of a series of papers by leading scholars presented at the State University of New York's annual program of educational policy seminars. The paper reviews recent judicial attempts to interpret the U.S. Constitution's first amendment's establishment clause in areas that have had a significant impact on educational policy…
Descriptors: Constitutional Law, Educational Policy, Higher Education, Religion
Peer reviewedPoulter, Sebastian – Journal of Law and Education, 1990
England's recent Education Reform Act of 1988 makes a number of important changes in the law relating to religious education. Describes the principal changes in the law and examines some of the practical difficulties expected to arise in their implementation. Critiques the policies that underlie the new legal provisions. (118 references) (MLF)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, Foreign Countries, Religious Education
Peer reviewedBurtchaell, James T. – Journal of College and University Law, 1999
Sketches the political context from which "Ex Corde Ecclesiae," the Papal constitution on higher education, emerged. Its most controversial provisions and the reaction in American Catholic academia are examined, norms currently under discussion are outlined, and a resolution of the issues dividing academics and the Catholic hierarchy is…
Descriptors: Catholic Educators, Church Related Colleges, College Administration, College Role
Hansen, J. Mark – Tennessee Law Review, 1979
Rather than allowing the unconstitutional Bible study program to remain in the schools in a modified form, the Court should have opted for a released-time arrangement. Available from Tennessee Law Review Association, Inc., 1505 W. Cumberland Ave., Knoxville, TN 37916. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Biblical Literature, Civil Liberties, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation
Devins, Neal E. – 1989
Controversy surrounding private education involves questions of compulsory education's role in inculcating values, how much alike public and private schools should be, and the duty of educational institutions to conform to constitutional norms. This book examines government regulation and resistance, legislative and judicial approaches, and issues…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Educational Discrimination, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
