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Religion and Education in the United States and Canada

2025· book-chapter· en· W4410591928 on OpenAlexaffabout
Michael D. Waggoner, W. Y. Alice Chan, Margaretta Patrick

Bibliographic record

VenueOxford University Press eBooks · 2025
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicReligious Education and Schools
Canadian institutionsThe King's University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPolitical scienceHistory of the United StatesGeographyLaw

Abstract

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Abstract Religion and education in the United States and Canada are in complex legal and cultural relationships. America’s First Amendment guarantees the freedom to practise one’s religion or no religion without interference by the government while also prohibiting the government from making laws respecting any establishment of religion. Similarly, Canada has a constitutional guarantee of freedom of religion, and a rich diversity of religious traditions and practices. Beyond these basic commonalities, Canada’s relationship of religion and education differs from the US as it is more shaped by the country’s history and constitutional framework. Differences in sincerely held beliefs have resulted in continuing litigation over the years in an attempt to balance individual and group interests at every level of education—in and outside traditional educational settings.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.826
Threshold uncertainty score0.377

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.012
GPT teacher head0.237
Teacher spread0.225 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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