Choosing Equality: School Choice, the Constitution, and Civil SocietyRowman & Littlefield, 2012 M01 1 - 284 páginas America is now in the second generation of debate on school choice. The first was prompted by the provocative voucher proposal conceived by Milton Friedman in 1955 and brought into the mainstream by Chubb and Moe's seminal book Politics, Markets, and American Schools (Brookings, 1990). It introduced a pure market model in which schools would be publicly financed but privately operated. While opponents continue to contend that choice will lead to the demise of public education, the weakening of civil society, and the fostering of separate and unequal systems of education, Joseph P. Viteritti argues that these long-held assertions must give way to present realities. The rich and diverse experience we have had with magnet schools, controlled choice, inter-district choice, charter schools, privately funded vouchers, and public vouchers in Milwaukee and Cleveland provides a solid basis for crafting a choice policy that enhances the educational opportunities of children whose needs are not being met by the present system of public education. Drawing on his background as a political scientist, legal scholar, and education practitioner, Viteritti starts his book with the promise articulated in the landmark Brown decision of 1954. After reviewing a variety of policy initiatives enacted to promote educational opportunity, he finds that the nation has fallen short of providing decent schooling for its most disadvantaged children, and in so doing has delayed the movement toward social and political equality. Viteritti does not contend that choice in the form of charter schools or vouchers for the poor is a solution to racial inequality, but he believes that these forms of choice can move the country in the proper direction. He insists that the nation cannot pretend to have a serious commitment to the goal of educational equality as long as choice is available only to those with the private means to afford it. |
Contenido
Oebating Choice | 1 |
Who Wants Choice? | 5 |
Reasonable 0oubts | 9 |
The Case for Choice | 11 |
The Constitution and Civil Society | 16 |
What Follows | 21 |
Oefining Equality | 23 |
Browns Promise | 25 |
Fitst Principles | 118 |
Constitutional Tensions | 126 |
Still A Limited Freedom | 143 |
Religion and the Common School | 145 |
From Pluralism to Patrimony | 146 |
From Separation to Secularization | 156 |
State Constitutional Law | 168 |
Politics and Law | 178 |
False Starts | 28 |
Still Separate and Unequal | 49 |
The Salience of Choice | 53 |
Public School Choice | 57 |
Charter Schools | 64 |
Limits of Government Action | 77 |
Public Schools and Private Schools | 80 |
The Relevance of Catholic Schools | 82 |
Politics of Choice | 86 |
Local Uprisings | 92 |
Lessons to Be Learned | 113 |
Equality as Religious Freedom | 117 |
Education Choice and Civil Society | 180 |
Americas Unfinished Assignment | 183 |
Growing Oemocracy | 190 |
Liberating the Poor | 197 |
Church State and Civil Society | 207 |
Choosing Equality | 209 |
Premises | 213 |
Principles | 219 |
Final Thoughts | 223 |
Notes | 225 |
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Choosing Equality: School Choice, the Constitution, and Civil Society Joseph Viteritti Vista previa limitada - 2012 |
Choosing Equality: School Choice, the Constitution, and Civil Society Joseph Viteritti Vista previa limitada - 2012 |
Choosing Equality: School Choice, the Constitution, and Civil Society Joseph P. Viteritti Sin vista previa disponible - 2001 |
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Referencias a este libro
American Dream and Public Schools Jennifer L. Hochschild,Nathan Scovronick Vista previa limitada - 2003 |
Handbook of Research on Catholic Education Thomas C. Hunt,Ellis A. Joseph,Ronald James Nuzzi Sin vista previa disponible - 2004 |