Staring beyond the dirty windows of her classroom, she was mesmerized … by snowflakes. A veritable scarcity in the coastal city of Odessa, these lacy little diamonds danced and sparkled in the dreary ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Seminole County School Board District 3 race pits Joe Williams against Wes Pennington, two men who disagree on the role schools should play in shaping student morals. Pennington, the challenger, ...