Cohen is the author of the new book Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court's 50-Year Battle for a More Unjust America The start of a new school year always brings change. For students, it’s new ...

HAMMOND (AP) – A woman who says she was punished for speaking out against classroom prayer and preaching with a grade of F in student teaching was offered the court settlement reached this week even ...

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I TURNED 40 recently. That makes me old enough to remember school prayer. Mandatory school prayer was a spotty thing around the United States in the late 1950s and ’60s. It was very prevalent in the ...

Bossier Parish first-grade teacher Kelli Aiello told parents in an email earlier this month that "the Lord has laid this on my heart" — "this" being to pray in the classroom with students whose ...

Not long ago, prayer in school seemed like an issue already put to rest by the courts. But a suburban Atlanta teacher’s refusal last week to observe a new state law requiring a brief period of “quiet ...

All are aimed at advancing a particular vision of religious liberty: one in which the government not only must allow for the free practice of religion, but has a role to play in promoting the ...

The most enduring and controversial issue related to school-sponsored religious activities is classroom prayer. In Engel v.Vitale (1962), the Supreme Court held that the Establishment Clause ...