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Book SynopsisSchool choice has risen to the top of the list of potential solutions to America's educational problems. This collection of essays redresses this situation by addressing the moral and normative side of school choice. It considers the relationship of school choice to equality, moral pluralism, institutional ecology, and constitutionality.
Trade Review"I doubt that anyone who reads [School Choice] will ever participate in, or listen to, prosaic debates on school choice in the same way again. What most excited me about this work was its reflection of a broader truth of the American political arena--the sometimes antithetical, yet equally legitimate, value frameworks that inform policy decision-making: liberty versus equality; community versus efficiency, and so on... The ideas at play here illuminate far more than the worth of school vouchers."--Francine Sanders Romero, The Law and Politics Book Review
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. v*Acknowledgments, pg. vii*Introduction, pg. 1*Chapter One. Defining Equity: Politics, Markets, and Public Policy, pg. 13*Chapter Two. The Irony of School Choice: Liberals, Conservatives, and the New Politics of Race, pg. 31*Chapter Three. Equity and School Choice: How Can We Bridge the Gap between Ideals and Realities?, pg. 51*Response, pg. 70*Chapter Four. Separating the Siamese Twins, "Pluralism" and "School Choice", pg. 79*Chapter Five. "Getting Religion": Religion, Diversity, and Community in Public and Private Schools, pg. 104*Chapter Six. Assessing Arguments for School Choice: Pluralism, Parental Rights, or Educational Results?, pg. 126*Response, pg. 149*Chapter Seven. Educational Choice and Pillarization: Some Lessons for Americans from the Dutch Experiment in "Affirmative Impartiality", pg. 155*Chapter Eight. Protecting and Limiting School Distinctiveness: How Much of Each?, pg. 173*Chapter Nine. Catholic Schools and Vouchers: How the Empirical Reality Should Ground the Debate, pg. 195*Response, pg. 211*Chapter Ten. Parents, Partners, and Choice: Constitutional Dimensions of School Options, pg. 217*Chapter Eleven. What Does the Establishment Clause Forbid? Reflections on the Constitutionality of School Vouchers, pg. 231*Chapter Twelve. Charting a Constitutional Course between Private Values and Public Commitments: The Case of School Vouchers, pg. 244*Response, pg. 271*Contributors, pg. 279*Notes, pg. 285*Index, pg. 343
