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 ...

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 ...

Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) has been lionized by the anti-war movement for his opposition to Iraq, and looking back at things, the senator knew what he was talking about when he spoke out against ...

WEBSTER, Louisiana -- Just like any other school, students at Lakeside High School in Webster, Louisiana, start their day out with the pledge of allegiance. But it's what they did afterward that makes ...

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 ...

As President Clinton and the new Republican leadership in Congress consider measures that would return organized prayer to public schools, it is worth remembering one thing. Prayer already is there.

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 ...

All perfect praise be to Allah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allah, and that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger. Parents and guardians are required to ...

A Southern California school district that formerly opened each school board meeting with a prayer sought to resume the practice after the Supreme Court allowed a high school football coach to pray on ...