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  1. The U.S. Constitution and education
    1. The Fourteenth Amendment and education
    2. The First Amendment and education
  2. Compulsory education
    1. Parent rights with regard to childrearing
    2. The power of states to regulate education
    3. Constitutional limitations upon compulsory education
  3. Religion and education
    1. School prayer
      1. District-sponsored
      2. Student-led
    2. Bible reading
    3. Meditation
    4. Public aid to private schools
      1. Child-benefit theory
      2. The Lemon test
    5. Secular humanism and the religion of public schools
    6. Controversy over evolution and creationism
  4. Parents' rights
    1. Limitations on parents' right to control children's education
  5. Teachers' rights
    1. Academic freedom
    2. Limitations on teachers' speech rights
    3. Limitations on teachers' rights in the classroom
    4. Personal liability of teachers
    5. Limitations on teachers' private lives
  6. Students' rights
    1. Students and freedom of speech
    2. Limitation on content in student publications
    3. School district liability for sexual harassment
    4. Due process rights and the property interest of education
  7. Corporal punishment
    1. Eighth Amendment and corporal punishment
    2. Due process and corporal punishment
  8. Language rights and education
    1. Instruction for non-English speaking students
    2. Instruction in mother tongues and dialects
  9. School finance
    1. Equalizing school finance
    2. State jurisdiction over legal cases involving school finance





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