School Choice : : The Moral Debate / / Alan Wolfe.

School choice has lately risen to the top of the list of potential solutions to America's educational problems, particularly for the poor and the most disadvantaged members of society. Indeed, in the last few years several states have held referendums on the use of vouchers in private and paroc...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
©2003
Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction / Wolfe, Alan
  • SCHOOL CHOICE AND EQUALITY
  • Chapter One. Defining Equity: Politics, Markets, and Public Policy / Viteritti, Joseph P.
  • Chapter Two. The Irony of School Choice: Liberals, Conservatives, and the New Politics of Race / Wolfe, Alan
  • Chapter Three. Equity and School Choice: How Can We Bridge the Gap between Ideals and Realities? / Macedo, Stephen
  • Response / Weithman, Paul
  • SCHOOL CHOICE AND PLURALISM
  • Chapter Four. Separating the Siamese Twins, "Pluralism" and "School Choice"
  • Chapter Five. "Getting Religion": Religion, Diversity, and Community in Public and Private Schools / Levinson, Meira / Levinson, Sanford
  • Chapter Six. Assessing Arguments for School Choice: Pluralism, Parental Rights, or Educational Results? / Gutmann, Amy
  • Response / Hollenbach, David
  • SCHOOL CHOICE AND SOCIAL ECOLOGY
  • Chapter Seven. Educational Choice and Pillarization: Some Lessons for Americans from the Dutch Experiment in "Affirmative Impartiality" / Mouw, Richard J.
  • Chapter Eight. Protecting and Limiting School Distinctiveness: How Much of Each? / Glenn, Charles L.
  • Chapter Nine. Catholic Schools and Vouchers: How the Empirical Reality Should Ground the Debate / O'Keefe, Joseph M.
  • Response / Mcgreevy, John T.
  • SCHOOL CHOICE AND THE LAW
  • Chapter Ten. Parents, Partners, and Choice: Constitutional Dimensions of School Options / Minow, Martha
  • Chapter Eleven. What Does the Establishment Clause Forbid? Reflections on the Constitutionality of School Vouchers / Perry, Michael J.
  • Chapter Twelve. Charting a Constitutional Course between Private Values and Public Commitments: The Case of School Vouchers / Salomone, Rosemary C.
  • Response / Mckinley Brennan, Patrick
  • Contributors
  • Notes
  • Index