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Vulnerable under God: could religious colleges be the next institutions under legal attack?
Education scholar Diane Ravitch reiterates in the New Republic what must be the best legal argument for school vouchers: "Why are children from impoverished families ineligible for tuition support if they attend St. Joseph's High School, but fully qualified to receive a Pell Grant from the federal government if they enroll in St. Joseph's College a few blocks away? Why is federal funding, and in some cases state funding, readily available to religious-sponsored institutions of higher education?" Ravitch argues that the time has come for primary and secondary school students to enjoy the same privileges as their university counterparts. In Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, the ...
- American Jewish Congress Releases Analysis of Supreme Court Nominee Stephen...
- Newspaper article from: U.S. Newswire June 29, 1994 700+ words
...s nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, American Jewish Congress...doing so, he extended to religious colleges the Supreme Court's holding that parochial...in this case there was no Supreme Court decision which controlled...
- Israel's other Barak.(Aharon Barak, chief justice of the Supreme Court)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) April 10, 1999 700+ words
...insists that the Supreme Court, aloof from the...last week when the Supreme Court, sitting as the...at yeshivas, or religious colleges. These are young...followed a ruling by the Supreme Court last December that...
- Supreme Court returns to issues close to home.(A)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times Murray, Frank J. October 1, 2001 700+ words
...Byline: Frank J. Murray The Supreme Court returns today to a docket of...team and pom pom squad. The Supreme Court has approved such tests solely...and loans have been used at religious colleges at least since World War II...
- Faculty attitudes on integrating faith and learning at religious colleges and...
- Magazine article from: Sociology of Religion Lyon, Larry Beaty, Michael Parker, James Mencken, Carson March 22, 2005 700+ words
The nature of and prospects for religious colleges and universities has been intensely...argue that it is not inevitable that religious colleges and universities must be transformed...it does not follow that because religious colleges are not inferior to their secular...
- The Christian closet: at religious colleges, gay men and lesbians hide to avoid...
- Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) Gideonese, Ted September 29, 1998 700+ words
At religious colleges, gay men and lesbians hide to avoid harassment and expulsion...surreptitiously counsel gay and lesbian students at conservative religious colleges. "Over the year and three months that we have been doing our...
- The new school spirit.(religious colleges)
- Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report Tolson, Jay February 14, 2005 700+ words
...the hunch that put journalist Naomi Schaefer Riley on the trail to writing her new book, God on the Quad: How Religious Colleges and the Missionary Generation Are Changing America. After spending three years visiting colleges with strong...
- Faith in school: as mainstream churches continue to wrestle with homosexuality,...
- Magazine article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) Caldwell, John September 2, 2003 700+ words
...They have told me that I'm the first person they've ever known who is gay." Openly gay students attending religious colleges are not only increasingly accepted, they are accepted despite their religions' antigay ideologies. Many religious...
- Religious colleges walk a fine line.
- Newspaper article from: The Philadelphia Inquirer (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) May 6, 2003 700+ words
Byline: James M. O'Neill PHILADELPHIA _Academic freedom is the golden rule at American colleges, a long-cherished principle that protects the right of professors and students to conduct controversial research and classroom discussion without fear of reprisal, all in the cause of knowledge and
Source: HighBeam Research, Vulnerable under God: could religious colleges be the next...