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Argues that governments and school administrators in the U.S. must emphasize effective schooling in order to address the concerns of the many minority school children who are isolated in the nation's inner cities. Discussion on the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the case Brown versus Board of Education that ended segregation in school; Vestiges of segregation that remain all over the U.S. in all kinds of school districts; Continuation of the process of desegregation.

Looks at the implications of the retirement of Justice Lewis Powell Jr. from the United States Supreme Court. Issues in which Powell's decisions were made law of the land; Impact on the cases that involve public aid to private and parochial schools; Role of Powell as the liberal justice in the Supreme Court.

Discusses the case Board of Education of Westside Community Schools versus Mergens that deals with Equal Access Act and after-school prayer. Facts of the case; Examination on the rulings of the lower and appellate courts on the case; Arguments of the parties to the case; Details on the ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court; Arguments of the dissenting opinion in the U.S. Supreme Court.

This article comments on the decision made by the U.S. Supreme Court on the lawsuit filed by teacher Edward Stachura against the Michigan school district, the board of education and parents of students. On June 25, 1986 the Supreme Court unanimously reversed the decision of the lower courts in favor of Stachura and sent the case back to trial on the issue of damages. Writing for the court, Associate Justice Lewis Powell argued that the purpose of constitutional lawsuits is to compensate persons for injuries that are caused by the deprivation of constitutional rights. Allowing the jury to place a monetary value on the importance of the right violated, in Powell's view, focused not on compensation for provable injury, but on the jury's subjective perception of the importance of constitutional rights as an abstract matter. This, according to Powell, was inconsistent with previous cases holding that there cold be no compensatory damages for constitutional violations in the absence of proof of actual injury. The real problem with the Supreme Court decision in this case is that it fails to provide any standards by which Stachura could structure his evidence at the retrial and by which the judge could instruct the jury.

Proposes the re-examination of the ruling on the U.S. Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education. Results of a study on education in Tennessee; Plan of action for the re-assessment of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling; Implications of the re-examination on school reform.

The article analyzes the court cases which the U.S. Supreme Court handled in the year 1985. It is reported that, one of the cases was regarding school prayer and publicly funded programs in parochial schools. It is reported that, a lawsuit was filed by agnostic with children in public school in Mobile County, Alabama, Ishmael Jaffree, after he was unsuccessful in bringing halt to the practice of singing and reciting religious material in classrooms, which he termed as unconstitutional, and in which the court gave decision in favor of Jaffree. It is reported that, another case involved the viability and validity of creating an organization for carrying out prayers in schools.