Sentences with phrase «religion in public education»

The critical barometer in the instruction of religion in public education lies in this point: The educator must be teaching about religion and not promoting or celebrating one religion over another.

The issue of religion in public education has fallen largely into their hands.

Two conference - symposia held in the anniversary year attempted to appraise the progress made in teaching about religion in public education.

He has some intelligent things to say about the madnesses of multiculturalism and affirmative action, and rightly deplores the national preemption of questions such as abortion and religion in public education.

The renewed emphasis on religious orthodoxy has been associated with a vigorous upsurge in theological education, in the growth of church - controlled schools, and in concern for religion in public education.

Vigorous discussion regarding the place of religion in public education has been generated.

Not exact matches

My greatest objection to the presence of religion in schools is that public schools are supposed to be about providing education for everyone — not religious instruction.

I used to believe that our epidemic of religious illiteracy was rooted in large part in a system of public education unwilling and unprepared to teach our young people about the Bible and the world's religions.

The loss of biblical language in public rhetoric or in public education may have telling effect (Lincoln might be incomprehensible today) Sunday school and other agencies of biblical education, where the texts can be restored and minds can as well be re-stored, are neglected, signaling that citizens are not really serious when they ask for more religion in the schools.

Since public education is controlled through agencies of government, racial justice in education depends upon equal political rights and responsibilities for all citizens regardless of color, religion, or national origin.

The greatest present bar to a mature religious orientation in public education is the assumption that the church and the synagogue are the only appropriate channels for religion, and that anything done about religion in the schools must be accomplished through these channels or at least with the official approval and sanction of the recognized religious officials.

Mann's erstwhile Calvinism and his belief that education was to reform the world became civil religion as it emerged in the schools, most of all in Mann's insistence upon public schools for all people.

No doubt public education, in its civil religious role, primarily transmits the civil religion — however imperfectly.

AAFRC now keys its 1960 - 1972 figures for charitable giving in the areas of education and health — the second and third largest areas of charitable giving, religion being the first — to figures developed by the Commission on Private Philanthropy and Public Needs, commonly referred to as the Filer Commission after its chair, John H. Filer.

If Santa Clausism became the dominant «religion» of the country, tried to influence the government, inst / itute laws and public policies and demand that it be taught in public education - start every school day with a reading from «Twas the Night Before Christmas» and have «Ho Ho Ho» on your money - I'm just betting that you would have something to say about it on an internet forum and elsewhere!

Another excellent study is Ferre, Frederick, Shaping the Future: Resources for the Post-Modern World (New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1976), especially with its public policy proposals in the realms of religion, politics, economics, and education based on the relational vision.

On a number of specific policies, notably parental choice in education, and, more important, on principles regarding the right ordering of religion and public life, JCS is usually and sometimes harshly opposed to the position of the Catholic Church.

Modernization theory views such processes of institutional change within American religion as the alleged differentiation of private piety from public policy, the growing differentiation of secular education from its religious roots, and the emergence of professional therapy as a distinct alternative to pastoral counseling as bellwether trends in advanced industrial societies generally and suggests that they may be in some way influenced by broader international patterns.

If faith in religion is your way of life, please keep it to yourself... and keep it out of public policy, public education and the lives of others.

I am not a believer, but totally agree that religion has no place in public education, politics or peoples personal lives.

Editor's note: Robert P. Jones is the CEO of Public Religion Research Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research and education organization specializing in work at the intersection of religion, values and publicPublic Religion Research Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research and education organization specializing in work at the intersection of religion, values and publicpublic life.

Look up Supreme Court decisions to back up your position — creationism has not place in public education, it is not science, it is religion.

The Hindu - Muslim communal riots in India also made a certain separation of religion from public education and party - politics a necessity for public peace in India.

But positive strategies that would take religion out of quarantine in public education are another matter.

Also, he writes not from a Protestant but from a secularist point of view, and thus sees no inherent problem in the relation of religion to public education.

There need not be an either / or situation, with education divided between Christian schools that teach religion and public schools that exclude it — all in the name of the separation of church and state.

The Supreme Court justices recognized a wall of separation between religion and public education in the first decisions with which they entered the field directly after World War II.

As the legal specialist at the Indianapolis meeting remarked, religion can not be taken out of public education simply by court rulings; it will disappear from the schools only if it ceases to live in the «thoughts and hearts of citizens.»

There is a legitimate place, therefore, for teaching about Judaism and Christianity, as well as other world religions, in public education.

During the course of the last two or three generations the theological curriculum has been «enriched» — like vitamin - impregnated bread — by the addition of a long series of short courses in sociology and social problems, rural and urban sociology, the theory of religious education, educational psychology, methods of religious education, psychology of religion, psychology of personality, psychology of counseling, methods of pastoral counseling, theory of missions, history of missions, methods of evangelism, theory and practice of worship, public speaking, church administration, et cetera, et cetera.

This effort, like that of the NCBCPS, relies heavily on the distinction made by Justice Thomas Clark in the 1963 Supreme Court decision forbidding devotional reading of the Bible in public schools: «Nothing we have said here indicates that such study of the Bible or of religion, when presented objectively as part of a secular program of education, may not be effected consistently with the First Amendment.»

I didn't know that Horace Mann, as he worked to magnify the reach of public education, was intolerant of introducing controversial subjects in the classroom: «If the day ever arrives when the school room shall become a cauldron for the fermentation of all the hot and virulent opinions, in politics and religion, that now agitate our community, that day the fate of our glorious public school system will be sealed, and speedy ruin will overwhelm it.»

Many of the controversies explored in this book involve education, and Viteritti makes a strong case for resisting the urge to drive religion from the public (school) square, for allowing religious institutions to perform some public functions, and for granting deeply religious parents greater accommodations when their children attend public schools.

Far from attempt against religion, secularism in public education provides a framework of coexistence and respect between different religious and belief systems, without imposing any binding way.

In accordance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 («Title VI»), Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 («Title IX»), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 («Section 504»), Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 («ADA»), and the Age Discrimination Act of 1975 («The Age Act»), applicants for admission and employment, students, parents, employees, sources of referral of applicants for admission and employment, and all unions or professional organizations holding collective bargaining or professional agreements with Capital City Public Charter School («Capital City») are hereby notified that Capital City Public Charter School does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, familial status, family responsibilities, political affiliation, source of income, or disability in admission or access to, or treatment or employment in, its programs and activitieIn accordance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 («Title VI»), Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 («Title IX»), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 («Section 504»), Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 («ADA»), and the Age Discrimination Act of 1975 («The Age Act»), applicants for admission and employment, students, parents, employees, sources of referral of applicants for admission and employment, and all unions or professional organizations holding collective bargaining or professional agreements with Capital City Public Charter School («Capital City») are hereby notified that Capital City Public Charter School does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, familial status, family responsibilities, political affiliation, source of income, or disability in admission or access to, or treatment or employment in, its programs and activitiein admission or access to, or treatment or employment in, its programs and activitiein, its programs and activities.

Furthermore, while I'm not a freedom from religion nut, I do believe it is fundamentally wrong to use public state dollars to pay for education in religious schools.

Since public education has failed to provide adequate education in the cities, a voucher program that could send kids to Catholic schools that have a track record of success, save the schools from closing, and no religion requirement was made would be good competition to the public schools.

Also to be factored in is the serious consideration of what it means to mix public education dollars and religion in a country built on the separation of church and state.

I would love to see a public education system that fosters a learning environment in which all students (regardless of their socioeconomic status, race, color, religion, sexual orientation) can reach their full potential.

Growing up in nearby Holland before settling down in Grand Rapids, Michigan's second - largest city, DeVos first found a way to adapt her conservative free - market politics and religion to the world of public education.

KIPP Academy Boston Charter Public School and KIPP Academy Lynn Charter Public School do not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, gender identity, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, homelessness, age, athletic performance, special need, proficiency in the English language or a foreign language, shall have equal access to the general education program and the full range of any and all education programs offered at our schools.

While they believe, in theory, there ought to be vouchers, that parental choice is a good idea, that there has been discrimination against religion, they're perfectly cognizant of the fact that many voucher advocates are really less concerned with the well being of religious education as they are with dismantling, disestablishing, literally, the public schools from their preferred place in American life.

(2) signed by an individual, or his parent, to the effect that he has been denied admission to or not permitted to continue in attendance at a public college by reason of race, color, religion, or national origin, and the Attorney General believes the complaint is meritorious and certifies that the signer or signers of such complaint are unable, in his judgment, to initiate and maintain appropriate legal proceedings for relief and that the institution of an action will materially further the orderly achievement of desegregation in public education, the Attorney General is authorized, after giving notice of such complaint to the appropriate school board or college authority and after certifying that he is satisfied that such board or authority has had a reasonable time to adjust the conditions alleged in such complaint, to institute for or in the name of the United States a civil action in any appropriate district court of the United States against such parties and for such relief as may be appropriate, and such court shall have and shall exercise jurisdiction of proceedings instituted pursuant to this section, provided that nothing herein shall empower any official or court of the United States to issue any order seeking to achieve a racial balance in any school by requiring the transportation of pupils or students from one school to another or one school district to another in order to achieve such racial balance, or otherwise enlarge the existing power of the court to insure compliance with constitutional standards.

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