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   Without a Prayer: Religious Expression in Public Schools » Read Now

   by Robert S. Alley. 264 pgs.

   Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Entire Library

   This is the first thorough examination to bring together the experiences of parents and children involved in contesting public school sanctioned prayer and Bible reading. Personal interviews were conducted with those involved in seven prominent cases beginning with the McCollum case decided by the...

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   This is the first thorough examination to bring together the experiences of parents and children involved in contesting public school sanctioned prayer and Bible reading. Personal interviews were conducted with those involved in seven prominent cases beginning with the McCollum case decided by the Supreme Court in 1948 and concluding with the ongoing struggle of Rachel Bauchman and Kevin Herdahl to protest official school activities in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Ecru, Mississippi.

   Each story challenges communities that impose the mores and cultural patterns of religion on their public schools. The result, in most instances, has been angry protests as well as threats against parents and children, and/or property damage.

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   The Separation of Church and State (Chap. Two "Prayer in Public School") » Read Now

   by Darien A. McWhirter. 189 pgs.

   Collections: Religious Studies, History, Education, Entire Library

   Students learn about the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment and discover how just 16 words in the U.S. Constitution inaugurated a debate that continues to this day. The author objectively follows the debate in relation to prayer in public schools, government...

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   Students learn about the Establishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment and discover how just 16 words in the U.S. Constitution inaugurated a debate that continues to this day. The author objectively follows the debate in relation to prayer in public schools, government support for religious schools, the right to speak and raise money for religious causes, when religion conflicts with the law, and where this issue stands today.

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   The School Prayer Decisions, in Constitutional Commentary » Read Now

   by William P. Marshall. 5 pgs.

   Collections: Entire Library

   ...independently active in political campaigns...issue like school prayer, the temptation...to resist.(19) Public schools, after all, are...Protestant school prayer in public...
   
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   Much Ado over Graduation Prayer, in Phi Delta Kappan » Read Now

   by Martha M. McCarthy, Larry W. Barber . 6 pgs.

   Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Entire Library

   ...struck down daily prayers in public schools.25 It seems...graduating seniors in the spring of 1993 (see "Prayer at School Graduation...page 125). Public schools must be...
   
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   Courtside - The Games, They Are A-Changin', in Phi Delta Kappan » Read Now

   by Perry A. Zirkel. 3 pgs.

   Collections: Education, Entire Library

   ...occupied the schools elective...delivered a prayer over the public address system...football game. In April 1995...focus on prayer, but on public speaking...be applied in...
   
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   Maryland Crowd Imposes Prayer at Public School Graduation Ceremony, in Church & State » Read Now

   by Church & State. 1 pgs.

   Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

   ...Imposes Prayer At Public School Graduation...recited the Lords Prayer out loud in Calvert County, Md...the inclusion of prayer in the ceremony, walked...reciting the Lords...
   
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   Prayer Warriors: Exploiting the Sept. 11 Terrorist Attacks, Rep. Ernest Istook and His Religious Right Allies Are Launching a Crusade for a School Prayer Amendment, in Church & State » Read Now

   by Rob Boston. 4 pgs.

   Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

   ...official prayer in public schools, calls for...reporters public schools should ignore...and sponsor prayer "at this...crisis moment in our history...to engage in voluntary...
   
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   A Doomed Prayer for Relief, in Phi Delta Kappan » Read Now

   by Perry A. Zirkel. 2 pgs.

   Collections: Education, Entire Library

   ...A doomed prayer for relief...school curriculum in the Woodland Park...morality in the public schools. They argued in...must be taught in the public schools." As the...
   
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   Lead Us Not into Temptation: A Christian Case against School Prayer, in Policy Review » Read Now

   by Joe Loconte. 8 pgs.

   Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

   ...declared prayer in the public schools unconstitutional...children to public schools, they were...overtones in classrooms--including prayers in the name...communicated in...
   
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    Religion & American Education: Rethinking a National Dilemma » Read Now

    by Warren A. Nord. 480 pgs.

    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Entire Library

    ...A Note on Prayer 259...Academic Freedom in Public Schools 277...the soul? of public education and...up yet again in a heated national...about school prayer. I trust...
    
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    Piety in the Public School: Trends and Issues in the Relationship between Religion and the Public School in the United States » Read Now

    by Robert Michaelsen. 274 pgs.

    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Entire Library

    ...practices as prayer and Bible...religion" in the title...For example, "public piety," as...the public schools I went to...out of the public schools at least from...practice...