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Education and Belief: Ontology
Educational philosophy raises four distinct but related questions: What is education for? What is the nature of the child? What is the role of adults? Who decides which view is right? The last post...
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Education and Belief: Pluralism Part 1
Let me begin with a thought experiment. Suppose that a majority of parents in a school district wished their children to have a traditional curriculum that included Latin, The Norton Anthology of...
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Education & Belief: Pluralism Part 2
In a recent column for the New York Times, David Brooks argued that a healthy society requires a “thick ecosystem” in which diverse organizations create a rich “spiritual, economic and social ecology.”...
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Education & Belief: Citizenship
“A high level of shared education is essential to a free, democratic society and to the fostering of a common culture, especially in a country that prides itself on pluralism and individual freedom.”...
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Education & Belief: Democratic Accountability
The key question, as Charles Glenn wrote in Contrasting Models of State and School, is “How the freedom of parents to choose how their children will be educated can be balanced with the opportunity for...
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Education & Belief: Constitution
Is government funding for distinctive and even religious schools plausible in America? Yes, under certain conditions. American public education already includes a growing variety of non-uniform...
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Education & Belief: Cultural Change
The structure of American public education, and its laws and culture, are now so familiar that it is hard to imagine how it might be otherwise. Yet as we have seen, American public education as it...
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Education & Belief: Maclure and Taylor
Educational pluralism requires, in part, a political theory that legitimates the presence of belief (both religious and secular) in the public square while insisting upon state neutrality with respect...
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Berner on Educational Pluralism
First Things has just posted an important and thoughtful essay by Ashley Berner, “The Case for Educational Pluralism.” Berner (left), co-director of the Moral Foundations of Education Project at the...
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Panel on Tax Reform and Education (Feb 25)
On February 25, the CUNY Institute for Education Policy in New York will host what looks to be a fascinating discussion on tax credits for primary and secondary education–including education in...
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