As the makeup of the Supreme Court shifts, a timely new book examines how the court has influenced America’s public schools.

In “The Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind,” a former law clerk to Justices Stephen Breyer and Sandra Day O’Connor analyzes the impact Supreme Court decisions have had on the nation’s public schools.

Author Justin Driver, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, explores how Supreme Court rulings on free speech, unwarranted searches, affirmative action, religious rights and more have impacted students’ lives.

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