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Superfine, Benjamin M. – Teachers College Record, 2022
Background: Over the past decade, courts increasingly have considered cases that involve clashes between public, secular private, and religious institutions in education. Such clashes appear to have intensified as recently as the 2019-2020 Supreme Court term, and the confirmation of Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett to the Court in 2020 suggests…
Descriptors: Public Education, Private Education, Religious Education, Educational Policy
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Mitchell, Cynthia – Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 2016
The First Amendment Schools project holds rich lessons in how to change school cultures into "laboratories of democracy"--as well as in how to increase the odds of success for any school reform effort. School reform programs of any sort need to make sure to build in sustainability, to provide ways to spread their lessons beyond the…
Descriptors: Freedom of Speech, Constitutional Law, Religion, Democracy
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Heins, Marjorie – Academe, 1998
A 1998 court decision ruled that a recent Virginia law requiring official approval for state employees to put materials with "sexually explicit content" on the Internet was unconstitutional. However, the extent to which the First Amendment will protect academic freedom in cyberspace in this case and for other issues is not clear. (MSE)
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, College Faculty, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation