School Choice And Social Justice

Author : Harry Brighouse
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Education
ISBN : 0199257876

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School Choice and Social Justice by Harry Brighouse Pdf

School choice, the leading educational reform proposal in the English-speaking world today, evokes extreme responses-its defenders present it as the saviour; its opponents as the death knell of a fair educational system. Disagreement and vagueness about what constitutes social justice ineducation muddies the debate. The author provides a new theory of justice for education, arguing that justice requires that all children have a real opportunity to become autonomous persons, and that the state use a criterion of educational equality for deploying educational resources. Throughsystematic presentation of empirical evidence, the author argues that existing schemes do not fare well against the criterion of social justice, yet this need not impugn school choice. Brighouse offers a school choice proposal that could implement social justice and explains why other essentialeducational reforms can be compatible with choice.

Author : Harry Brighouse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Education and state
ISBN : 0191598844

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School Choice and Social Justice by Harry Brighouse Pdf

'School Choice and Social Justice' develops a liberal egalitarian theory of social justice in education. Looking at the most recent empirical evidence, it evaluates the justice of existing choice schemes and proposes a series of reforms

Author : Stephen D. Sugarman,Frank R. Kemerer
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0815721080

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School Choice and Social Controversy by Stephen D. Sugarman,Frank R. Kemerer Pdf

In this important new volume, distinguished legal and public policy scholars address issues that are critical to the successful drafting and implementation of school choice programs, yet are usually overlooked in the choice debate. They explore whether school choice is a threat or an opportunity to the many children who are largely deprived of choice today and they offer a variety of perspectives, with some authors enthusiastic, others more skeptical. The book begins with a discussion of the types and extent of school choice, what is known about its consequences, and how politics has influenced its development. It then focuses on three important public policy issues: how school choice can revolutionize the way schools are financed, what policy interventions are necessary to increase the supply of choice schools, and how choice programs can be held accountable to parents and the state without undermining institutional autonomy. The book addresses legal issues, including whether public and private choice schools will be required to observe student and teacher rights generally recognized in traditional public schools, how the religion and speech clauses of the First Amendment may affect the participation of religious schools in school choice programs, whether school choice will enhance or aggravate opportunities for racial justice, what the implications of school choice are for teacher unions and collective bargaining, and whether children with disabilities will be accommodated in school choice programs under federal disability law. Throughout the book, the authors offer recommendations for public policy development. The contributors are Jeffrey Henig, Robert Bulman and David L. Kirp, Paul T. Hill, Robert M. O'Neil, Jesse H. Choper, Betsy Levin, William G. Buss, and Laura F. Rothstein. Stephen D. Sugarman is Agnes Roddy Robb Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. Frank R. Kemerer is Regents Professor and director of the Center for

Author : Adam Swift
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Education
ISBN : 0415311160

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How Not to be a Hypocrite by Adam Swift Pdf

Can parents send their children to private schools and still live up to their ideals? Can you be a good citizen and a good parent? These difficult questions, and many more, are raised and answered in this insightful and thought-provoking book.

Author : Wagma Mommandi,Kevin Welner
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807779804

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School’s Choice by Wagma Mommandi,Kevin Welner Pdf

Access issues are pivotal to almost all charter school tensions and debates. How well are these schools performing? Are they segregating and stratifying? Are they public and democratic? Are they fairly funded? Can apparent successes be scaled up? Answers to all these core questions hinge on how access to charter schools is shaped. This book describes the incentives and pressures on charter schools to restrict access and examines how charters navigate those pressures, explaining access-restricting practices in relation to the ecosystem within which charter schools are created. It also explains how charters have sometimes responded by resisting the pressures and sometimes by surrendering to them. The text presents analyses of 13 different types of practices around access, each of which shapes the school’s enrollment. The authors conclude by offering recommendations for how states and authorizers can address access-related inequities that arise in the charter sector. School’s Choice provides timely information on critical academic and policy issues that will come into play as charter school policy continues to evolve. Book Features: Examines how charter schools control who gains and retains access.Explores policies and practices that undermine equitable admission and encourage opportunity hoarding.Offers a set of policy recommendations at the state and federal level to address access-related issues.

Author : J. Zajda,S. Majhanovich,V. Rust,E. Martín Sabina
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781402047220

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Education and Social Justice by J. Zajda,S. Majhanovich,V. Rust,E. Martín Sabina Pdf

This book explores the problematic relationship between education, social justice and the State, against the background of comparative education research. The book critiques the status quo of stratified school systems, and the unequal distribution of cultural capital and value added schooling. The authors address one of today’s most pressing questions: Are social, economic and cultural divisions between the nations, between school sectors, between schools and between students growing or declining?

Author : Walter Feinberg,Christopher Lubienski
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780791477717

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School Choice Policies and Outcomes by Walter Feinberg,Christopher Lubienski Pdf

Perhaps no school reform has generated as much interest and controversy in recent years as the proposal to have parents select their children's schools. Opponents of school choice fear that rolling back the government's role will lead to profit-driven financial scandals, sectarianism, and increased class and racial isolation. School choice advocates believe that state provision, oversight, and regulation stifle entrepreneurial creativity. The contributors to this volume not only provide a clear assessment of the logic and evidence supporting the different sides of the debate but also unmask the assumptions about the relationship between markets, government, and educational achievement. Their message is that neither markets nor government alone will guarantee freedom, equality, achievement, or community. If choice is to improve education and advance equality, then educational policy cannot be placed on automatic and left to the "free" market. Rather, choice policy must be deliberately directed toward meeting these goals, and this book shows how that could be accomplished.

Author : Kronick, Robert F.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781799802822

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Emerging Perspectives on Community Schools and the Engaged University by Kronick, Robert F. Pdf

University involvement within their communities and the promotion of engaged scholarship is essential for the success of the learning institution as well as for providing students with opportunities to interact with various leadership roles and hands-on interactions with the communities themselves. Community schools employ strategic partnerships to expand the boundaries of school improvements and to increase the direct benefits gained by the community. Emerging Perspectives on Community Schools and the Engaged University is an essential research publication that explores the importance of civic engagement in various school settings, but especially in higher education settings. Featuring a wide range of topics such as service learning, charter schools, and democracy, this book is ideal for community organizers, superintendents, directors, provosts, chancellors, education practitioners, academicians, administrators, researchers, and education policymakers.

Author : Emma Smith
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781526451903

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Key Issues in Education and Social Justice by Emma Smith Pdf

‘This highly accessible book weaves together discussion of recent research findings, policy developments and theoretical perspectives. It provides a thought-provoking and at times contentious introduction that will challenge students and teachers to look beyond the easy and glib rhetoric, helping them understand the complexities of educating for a more equal world.′ Shereen Benjamin, Senior Lecturer in Primary Education, University of Edinburgh This book is an introduction to issues of inequality and social justice, how they relate to education systems and how education can be a force for positive societal change. Drawing upon research, policy and contemporary thinking in the field, this second edition examines educational inequalities that exist today, what lies behind them and what effects they have across society. New to this edition: Wider coverage on social inequalities in relation to income and wealth New chapters on: childhood inequalities, international issues in education and social justice, and education inequalities in the USA A broader focus on how young people experience social justice that includes the experiences of young offenders. This is essential reading for students on undergraduate education studies courses, and related degree programmes that explore the relationship between education and society.

Author : John Sayer,Johan L. Vanderhoeven
Publisher : Garant
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Education
ISBN : 9053508880

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School Choice, Equity and Social Exclusion in Europe by John Sayer,Johan L. Vanderhoeven Pdf

Author : Catherine Marshall,Cynthia Gerstl-Pepin,Mark Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807763230

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Educational Politics for Social Justice by Catherine Marshall,Cynthia Gerstl-Pepin,Mark Johnson Pdf

"Using an innovative social justice framework, Educational Politics for Social Justice provides a comprehensive examination of educational politics at all levels of the system, how inequities are embedded in democratic practices, and ways to "work the system" to move toward greater justice and equity"--

Author : Kevin G. Welner,Patricia H. Hinchey,William J. Mathis,Gary Miron
Publisher : IAP
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781623960452

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Exploring the School Choice Universe by Kevin G. Welner,Patricia H. Hinchey,William J. Mathis,Gary Miron Pdf

Exploring the School Choice Universe: Evidence and Recommendations gives readers a comprehensive, complete picture of choice policies and issues. In doing so, it offers cross-cutting insights that are obscured when one looks only at single issue or a single approach to choice. The book examines choice in its various forms: charter schools, home schooling, online schooling, voucher plans that allow students to use taxpayer funds to attend private schools, tuition tax credit plans that provide a public subsidy for private school tuition, and magnet schools and other forms of public school intra- and interdistrict choice. It brings together some of the top researchers in the field, presenting a comprehensive overview of the best current knowledge of these important policies. The questions addressed in Exploring the School Choice Universe are of most importance to researchers and policy makers. What do choice programs actually do? What forms do they take? Who participates, and why? What are the funding implications? What are the results of different forms of school choice on outcomes that matter, like student performance, segregation, and competition effects? Do they affect teachers’ working conditions? Do they drive innovation? The contents of this book offer reason to believe that choice policies can further some educational goals. But they also suggest many reasons for caution. If choice policies are to be evidence-based, a re-examination is in order. The information, insights and recommendations facilitate a more nuanced understanding of school choice and provide the basis for designing sensible school choice reforms that can pursue a range of desirable outcomes.

Author : Geoffrey Walford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317356608

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Privatisation, Education and Social Justice by Geoffrey Walford Pdf

Privatisation in and of education is a process that takes many different forms, and is deeply controversial. While the shift in who pays is certainly an important dimension of privatisation, there have also been changes in the management, provision, and delivery of schooling. In most of the economically developed world, discussion about the privatisation of education is now several decades old, and yet new forms of privatisation are still being developed and old forms being applied to new situations. This book examines the concept and nature of privatisation, and explores the impacts of privatisation in terms of social justice. The authors extend various arguments about the processes, and provide new research and critique. Some believe that privatisation can lead to increasing social justice for the poor, while others argue the exact opposite. This volume contributes to theoretical conceptions of social justice and education as well as providing up-to-date research results. This book was originally published as a special issue of Oxford Review of Education.

Author : Robert A. Fox,Nina K. Buchanan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781119082569

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The Wiley Handbook of School Choice by Robert A. Fox,Nina K. Buchanan Pdf

The Wiley Handbook of School Choice presents a comprehensive collection of original essays addressing the wide range of alternatives to traditional public schools available in contemporary US society. A comprehensive collection of the latest research findings on school choices in the US, including charter schools, magnet schools, school vouchers, home schooling, private schools, and virtual schools Viewpoints of both advocates and opponents of each school choice provide balanced examinations and opinions Perspectives drawn from both established researchers and practicing professionals in the U.S. and abroad and from across the educational spectrum gives a holistic outlook Includes thorough coverage of the history of traditional education in the US, its current state, and predictions for the future of each alternative school choice

Author : Wu Xiaoxin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134675944

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School Choice in China by Wu Xiaoxin Pdf

School Choice in China explores the major characteristics of schooling options in China, highlighting how largely middle-class parents exploit their cultural, economic and social capital for their children's admission into choice schools. It highlights how payments such as choice fees, donations, prize-winning certificates and awards, as well as the use of guanxi, result in Chinese school choice as a parent-driven, bottom-up movement. The author also explores how schools and local governments cash in on the school choice fever in order to obtain significant economic returns, leading to policies that accommodate the needs of mostly middle-class families. He argues that although this system seems to create winners among the parties involved, it exacerbates the educational inequality that already exists in Chinese society. Chapters include: Positional competition for cultural capital Exploitation of social capital Economics of school choice Class reproduction through parental choice This book is not simply a detailed analysis of Chinese school choice practices, but also a study of the competitive middle class search for advantage for their children. As such it will be beneficial to undergraduates, postgraduates, education professionals, policy makers, and anyone with an interest in education, sociology, social policy, and the rise and future of China.