School Prayer And Discrimination

Author : Frank S. Ravitch
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781555534776
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book School Prayer and Discrimination written by Frank S. Ravitch and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1999 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Frank Ravitch has written a fine book, one that offers a fair and thorough treatment of a difficult and vexing political and constitutional issue." Law and Politics Book Review

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Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious Expression in Public Schools written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David M. Ackerman
Publisher : Nova Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781590331439
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prayer and Religion in the Public Schools written by David M. Ackerman and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since children spend a great deal of their productive hours each day in the school setting, the propagation or non-propagation of religious ideas is a legitimate issue. Many parents, especially those located outside the coastal elite states, believe that religious acts belong in schools as a crucial part of child-rearing. This book examines the core questions of what is and what is not permitted regarding prayer and religion in the public schools as of the latest rulings and presents a selective bibliography of the book and journal literature for further analysis and reading.

Author : Leslie Beth Ribovich
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479817295
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Without a Prayer written by Leslie Beth Ribovich and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reframes religion’s role in twentieth-century American public education The processes of secularization and desegregation were among the two most radical transformations of the American public school system in all its history. Many regard the 1962 and 1963 US Supreme Court rulings against school prayer and Bible-reading as the end of religion in public schools. Likewise, the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case is seen as the dawn of school racial equality. Yet, these two major twentieth-century American educational movements are often perceived as having no bearing on one another. Without a Prayer redefines secularization and desegregation as intrinsically linked. Using New York City as a window into a national story, the volume argues that these rulings failed to successfully remove religion from public schools, because it was worked into the foundation of the public education structure, especially how public schools treated race and moral formation. Moreover, even public schools that were not legally segregated nonetheless remained racially segregated in part because public schools rooted moral lessons in an invented tradition—Judeo-Christianity—and in whiteness. The book illuminates how both secularization and desegregation took the form of inculcating students into white Christian norms as part of their project of shaping them into citizens. Schools and religious and civic constituents worked together to promote programs such as juvenile delinquency prevention, moral and spiritual values curricula, and racial integration advocacy. At the same time, religiously and racially diverse community members drew on, resisted, and reimagined public school morality. Drawing on research from a number of archival repositories, newspaper and legal databases, and visual and material culture, Without a Prayer shows how religion and racial discrimination were woven into the very fabric of public schools, continuing to inform public education’s everyday practices even after the Supreme Court rulings.

Author : Amelia Rhodes
Publisher : Worthy Inspired
ISBN 13 : 1683970063
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pray A to Z written by Amelia Rhodes and published by Worthy Inspired. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pray A-Z: A Practical Guide to Praying for Your Community will help you topically organize your prayer requests and lay the burdens of your community at the feet of our Heavenly Father. Whether you are praying for a friend's adoption journey, a neighbor's bankruptcy, or a family member's cancer, this book will give you Bible verses, prayer prompts, and prayer starts to guide you through praying for even the most difficult issues that affect the people you know and love. Perfect for either individual or group prayer, Pray A-Z will help you experience the peace that comes from communicating with God.

Author : Frank S. Ravitch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107158877
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom's Edge written by Frank S. Ravitch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains religious and sexual freedom law in an accessible way and argues for a compromise that maximizes freedom on both sides.

Author : Frank S. Ravitch
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814775853
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Masters of Illusion written by Frank S. Ravitch and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2007-04 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many legal theorists and judges agree on one major premise in the field of law and religion: that religion clause jurisprudence is in a state of disarray and has been for some time. In Masters of Illusion, Frank S. Ravitch provocatively contends that both hard originalism (a strict focus on the intent of the Framers) and neutrality are illusory in religion clause jurisprudence, the former because it cannot live up to its promise for either side in the debate and the latter because it is simply impossible in the religion clause context. Yet these two principles have been used in almost every Supreme Court decision addressing religion clause questions. Ravitch unpacks the various principles of religion clause interpretation, drawing on contemporary debates such as school prayer and displaying the Ten Commandments on courthouses, to demonstrate that the neutrality principle does not work in a pluralistic society. When defined by large, overarching principles of equality and liberty, neutrality fails to account for differences between groups and individuals. If, however, the Court drew on a variety of principles instead of a single notion of neutrality to decide whether or not laws facilitated or discouraged religious practices, the result could be a more equitable approach to religion clause cases.

Author : Justin Driver
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525566961
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Schoolhouse Gate written by Justin Driver and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice An award-winning constitutional law scholar at the University of Chicago (who clerked for Judge Merrick B. Garland, Justice Stephen Breyer, and Justice Sandra Day O’Connor) gives us an engaging and alarming book that aims to vindicate the rights of public school stu­dents, which have so often been undermined by the Supreme Court in recent decades. Judicial decisions assessing the constitutional rights of students in the nation’s public schools have consistently generated bitter controversy. From racial segregation to un­authorized immigration, from antiwar protests to compul­sory flag salutes, from economic inequality to teacher-led prayer—these are but a few of the cultural anxieties dividing American society that the Supreme Court has addressed in elementary and secondary schools. The Schoolhouse Gate gives a fresh, lucid, and provocative account of the historic legal battles waged over education and illuminates contemporary disputes that continue to fracture the nation. Justin Driver maintains that since the 1970s the Supreme Court has regularly abdicated its responsibility for protecting students’ constitutional rights and risked trans­forming public schools into Constitution-free zones. Students deriving lessons about citizenship from the Court’s decisions in recent decades would conclude that the following actions taken by educators pass constitutional muster: inflicting severe corporal punishment on students without any proce­dural protections, searching students and their possessions without probable cause in bids to uncover violations of school rules, random drug testing of students who are not suspected of wrongdoing, and suppressing student speech for the view­point it espouses. Taking their cue from such decisions, lower courts have upheld a wide array of dubious school actions, including degrading strip searches, repressive dress codes, draconian “zero tolerance” disciplinary policies, and severe restrictions on off-campus speech. Driver surveys this legal landscape with eloquence, highlights the gripping personal narratives behind landmark clashes, and warns that the repeated failure to honor students’ rights threatens our basic constitutional order. This magiste­rial book will make it impossible to view American schools—or America itself—in the same way again.

Author : David B. Oppenheimer
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788979214
Total Pages : 645 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comparative Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law, Third Edition written by David B. Oppenheimer and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-28 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised and updated casebook comprehensively compares the U.S. legal approach to problems of inequality and discrimination with the approaches of a variety of other legal systems around the world.

Author : Johannes A. van der Ven
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900418886X
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Rights or Religious Rules? written by Johannes A. van der Ven and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-03-08 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on historical inisights, systematic reflections and empirical data, this book offers a substantive understanding of the complex relationship between religion and human rights and of the empirical impact of Christianity and Islam on the attitudes toward human rights, i.e. a human rights culture.