Stasis Grid

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Source Type

Categorical

Definitional

Causal

Evaluation

Action

Jurisdiction

Up to three names,
write them all; 4+,
write first name et
al. (i.e., Smith et
al.)

(popular, scholarly,
trade, government)

Does X exist?

Is X a Y?

Does X cause Y?
Is Y a result of X?

Is it good or bad?
Fair or unfair?
Harmful or
beneficial?

What should be
done about X?

Who is responsible?

1.

Book,
Scholarly

Many believe
that religion
should be
excluded from
schools as not
to offend
anyone.

We get our
morals from
religion.

In order to be
properly
educated,
children must
be taught about
different
religions and
cultures.
In places where
a religious
majority
practices,
minorities can
feel ostracized

We must develop
a new way to
teach students
about religion
and other
cultures.

Develop a
new way to do
this, change
the mindset in
education.

Government
officials and
education
leaders

This should not

be allowed in
schools, because
it offends and
upsets some
students

Religion
should not be
allowed in the
public schools

Robert Kunzman

2.
Noah Fitzgerald,
College Student

Blog Post,
Popular

3.
Emile Lester

Book,
Scholarly

4.
Abby
Goodnough

News Article

Religion is
thought to be a
topic that
should be kept
out of the
public school
system
A high school
girl challenges
a school prayer
that had been
on the gym
wall for years

Should religion
be part of
public
education?

Is it wrong to
display
religious
affiliation in a
public school?

Religion can be
taught as long
as it is fully
informative and
impartially
taught

Teach young
people about
religion and
culture

Is this really so
offensive? The
prayer was not
being said.

The school
board, teachers

Government

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5.
William Hare
and John P.
Portelli

Book,
Scholarly

6.
Steven P. Jones
and Eric C.
Sheffield,
Professor and
Associate
Professor at
Missouri State
University

Book, scholarly

7.
Annie Laurie
Gaylor, CoFounder of
FFRF

Online article,
popular

Many different
questions and
view points:
Can we have
religion in
schools? So
many are
resistant to
have it in
schools, and is
there a way to
include it in
curriculum to
make everyone
happy?
What does the
law say about
religion in
schools?

Students and
teachers are
responsiblemust discuss
religion in a
democratic,
non-biased way

What are the

effects of
religious
affiliation,
organization,
and clubs in
schools?

School prayer
and religion in
schools is
harful to a
students
learning
environment

Topics include
barring the use of
funds for
religious
activities in
schools, where to
draw the line
concerning
religions in
schools.
Teachers,
parents,
athiests

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8.
Edwin C.
Darden,
Attorney,
Specialist in
public policy
and education
laws

Online article

9.
Dan Dennett,
Philosopher,
cognitive
scientist

Lecture,
scholarly

10.
Kevin Donnelly,
Senior Research
Fellow at ACU

Article,
Scholarly

Darden asks
should we let
religion be or
push it away

What is the
importance of
religion and
learning about
religion?

Discusses role
of
religion(althou
gh it is about
Britain, the
discussion
focuses on a
primarily
Christian
nation, much
like the USA)

Can religion be
taught?

Religion must
be taught
because it is an
integral part of
human history.

The first
amendment
promises
religious
freedom, but
where should we
be allowed to
practice that
freedom?
However,
religion must be
taught as a
historical and
philosophical
subject, not
forcing children
to follow its
teachings or pray
2 ways to
teach religion:
Tech common
ethical
teachings of
many
religions and
how their
teachings
overlap/ relate
to ethics in the
world, and the
second is to
simply study
the history and
artifacts of
religion

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11.
Morgan Chilson

Article, Popular

Should religion
be allowed in
charter
schools?

12.
Rosemary
Bolger, writer
for ABC News

Article, Popular

13.
Rebecca Klein,
blogger

Blogpost,
popular

Schools in
Tasmania want
to exclude
students who
are of different
religious
affiliations
from their
schools.
A parent
doesnt want
his child
learning about
Islam in
school.

14.
Stephen
Prothero,
Professor at
Boston
University

Opinion
Editorial

What do
Christian
Americans
know about
religion?

This harps on
the issue of
funding, since
they receive
tax dollars but
are not run in
the public
school system
Is this
acceptable,
since the local
churches are
the ones
funding the
schools?
I this really
challenging
peoples faith?
Did the parent
have grounds
to do this?

Policy makers,
state
government,
taxpayers

This evaluates
bigotry and the
problems with
including religion
in education that
happens in
countries other
than America
Would learning
about parts of
Islam in school
really affect the
childs beliefs?

Should the public

school recognize
this as a
legitimate
concern?

Shown from
quiz results,
Americans
knew very little
about the Bible

This means that

Americans need
to be religiously
educated

Religon
should be
taught to these
religiously
illiterate.
However, the
cry to keep
religion out of
schools bars
this from
happening.

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15.
Erik Eckholm,
Journalist for
NYTimes

Online article

Many schools
in South still
have religious
rallies etc in
schools

Does this cause

a problem? Is
this against the
law?

Religious
practices in
southern
schools should
be stopped
because the
public school
system is
meant to be
secular

Southerners,
policy makers,
government