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??Download EBOoK@? The Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, the Supreme Court, and theBattle for the American Mind??DownloadEBOoK@? TheSchoolhouse Gate:Public Education, theSupreme Court, andthe Battle for theAmerican MindDescriptionA Washington Post Notable Book of the YearANew York Times Book Review Editors’ ChoiceAn award-winning constitutional law scholar at the University of Chicago (who clerked for JudgeMerrick B. Garland, Justice Stephen Breyer, and Justice Sandra Day O’Connor) gives us anengaging and alarming book that aims to vindicate the rights of public school students, whichhave so often been undermined by the Supreme Court in recent decades. Judicial decisionsassessing the constitutional rights of students in the nation’s public schools have consistentlygenerated bitter controversy. From racial segregation to unauthorized immigration, from antiwarprotests to compulsory flag salutes, from economic inequality to teacher-led prayer—these arebut a few of the cultural anxieties dividing American society that the Supreme Court has addressedin elementary and secondary schools. The Schoolhouse Gate gives a fresh, lucid, and provocativeaccount of the historic legal battles waged over education and illuminates contemporary disputesthat continue to fracture the nation. Justin Driver maintains that since the 1970s the SupremeCourt has regularly abdicated its responsibility for protecting students’ constitutional rights andrisked transforming public schools into Constitution-free zones. Students deriving lessons aboutcitizenship from the Court’s decisions in recent decades would conclude that the following actionstaken by educators pass constitutional muster: inflicting severe corporal punishment on studentswithout any procedural protections, searching students and their possessions without probablecause in bids to uncover violations of school rules, random drug testing of students who are notsuspected of wrongdoing, and suppressing student speech for the viewpoint it espouses. Takingtheir cue from such decisions, lower courts have upheld a wide array of dubious school actions,including degrading strip searches, repressive dress codes, draconian “zero tolerance” disciplinarypolicies, and severe restrictions on off-campus speech. Driver surveys this legal landscape witheloquence, highlights the gripping personal narratives behind landmark clashes, and warns thatthe repeated failure to honor students’ rights threatens our basic constitutional order. Thismagisterial book will make it impossible to view American schools—or America itself—in thesame way again.

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