The schoolhouse gate : public education, the Supreme Court, and the battle for the American mind /

"By a brilliant young constitutional scholar at the University of Chicago--who clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia for Judge Merrick B. Garland and on the Supreme Court of the United States for Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Stephen Breyer, and who also happ...

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Main Author: Driver, Justin
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Pantheon Books, 2018
Edition:First edition
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Early encounters with race, culture, religion, and patriotism
  • Freedom of expression from black armbands to BONG HiTS 4 JESUS
  • Suspensions, corporal punishment, and intolerable "zero tolerance" policies
  • Policing student investigations : searching students' bodies, suspicionless drug testing, and Miranda warnings
  • Equal protection I : racial segregation and the enduring battle over Brown v. Board of Education
  • Equal protection II : funding disparities, sex separations, and unauthorized immigration
  • The quiet détente over religion and education
  • Conclusion