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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

To be woven tightly into the permanent majority, forever and always, must assure a powerful sense of confidence and belonging. This feeling of belonging can’t be like a pair of shoes, laced on 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 ...

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 ...