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Peer reviewedLockwood, Alan L. – Counseling and Values, 1989
The New Right regularly claims that the teaching of secular humanism by public schools is responsible for varied social ills and that it violates the constitutional prohibition against the advocacy of religious beliefs. This article explores these as empirical claims, concluding that no reliable evidence supports these allegations. Although such…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Ethical Instruction, Foundations of Education, Humanistic Education
