{"product_id":"the-schoolhouse-gate-public-education-the-supreme-court-and-the-battle-for-the-american-mind-paperback","title":"The Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJustin Driver\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003eEditors' Choice\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn award-winning constitutional law scholar at the University of Chicago (who clerked for Judge Merrick B. Garland, Justice Stephen Breyer, and Justice Sandra Day O'Connor) gives us an engaging and alarming book that aims to vindicate the rights of public school stu­dents, which have so often been undermined by the Supreme Court in recent decades. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJudicial decisions assessing the constitutional rights of students in the nation's public schools have consistently generated bitter controversy. From racial segregation to un­authorized immigration, from antiwar protests to compul­sory flag salutes, from economic inequality to teacher-led prayer--these are but a few of the cultural anxieties dividing American society that the Supreme Court has addressed in elementary and secondary schools. \u003ci\u003eThe Schoolhouse Gate \u003c\/i\u003egives a fresh, lucid, and provocative account of the historic legal battles waged over education and illuminates contemporary disputes that continue to fracture the nation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJustin Driver maintains that since the 1970s the Supreme Court has regularly abdicated its responsibility for protecting students' constitutional rights and risked trans­forming public schools into Constitution-free zones. Students deriving lessons about citizenship from the Court's decisions in recent decades would conclude that the following actions taken by educators pass constitutional muster: inflicting severe corporal punishment on students without any proce­dural protections, searching students and their possessions without probable cause in bids to uncover violations of school rules, random drug testing of students who are not suspected of wrongdoing, and suppressing student speech for the view­point it espouses. Taking their 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\" disciplinary policies, and severe restrictions on off-campus speech. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDriver surveys this legal landscape with eloquence, highlights the gripping personal narratives behind landmark clashes, and warns that the repeated failure to honor students' rights threatens our basic constitutional order. This magiste­rial book will make it impossible to view American schools--or America itself--in the same way again. \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJUSTIN DRIVER\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Law at Yale Law School. A graduate of Brown, Oxford (where he was a Mar­shall Scholar), and Harvard Law School (where he was an edi­tor of the \u003ci\u003eHarvard Law Review\u003c\/i\u003e), Driver clerked for Supreme Court Justices Stephen Breyer and Sandra Day O'Connor. A recipient of the American Society for Legal History's William Nelson Cromwell Article Prize, Driver has a distinguished publication record in the nation's leading law reviews. He has also written extensively for lay audiences, including pieces in \u003ci\u003eSlate, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic, \u003c\/i\u003ewhere he was a contributing editor. A member of the American Law Institute and the American Constitution Society's Academic Advisory Board, Driver is also an edi­tor of \u003ci\u003eThe Supreme Court Review\u003c\/i\u003e. Before attending law school, Driver received a master's degree in education from Duke and taught civics and American history to high school students. \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 576\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 06, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51756578341152,"sku":"9780525566960","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/2fe97f34334cafc138005dbd897d746b.webp?v=1780081233","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-schoolhouse-gate-public-education-the-supreme-court-and-the-battle-for-the-american-mind-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}