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Taft, Gary L. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This research examined the knowledge of the first amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America possessed by teachers in two secondary high schools in East Tennessee. Additionally, an attempt to evaluate the relationship between church attendance in protestant evangelical churches and the teacher's ability to address church/state…
Descriptors: Constitutional Law, Secondary School Teachers, State Church Separation, Religion
Haynes, Charles C. – American School Board Journal, 2000
From 19th-century Protestant hegemony to today's religion-free zones, we have found no proper, constitutional role for religion and religious expression in public education. Both models are unjust and, in some cases, unconstitutional. A third model, composed of consensual guidelines, must be translated into local district policies and practices.…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines, Protestants
Wright, Elliott A. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1999
Nineteenth-century common schools offered no course about religion or its role in American society. Moral education up through the mid-20th century embodied a kind of generalized Christianity. If universalized versions of the Golden Rule and the Ten Commandments prevail, educators should reconsider the merits of common-school philosophy. Contains…
Descriptors: Christianity, Cultural Pluralism, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education