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Princeton University Press School Choice – The Moral Debate

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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 of the late-20th and early 21st-century several states have held referendums on the use of vouchers in private and parochial schools, and more recently, the Supreme Court reviewed the constitutionality of a scholarship program that uses vouchers issued to parents. While there has been much debate over the empirical and methodological aspects of school choice policies, discussions related to the effects such policies may have on the nation's moral economy and civil society have been few and far between. This collection of essays by leading philosophers, historians, legal scholars, and theologians, redresses this situation by addressing the moral and normative side of school choice. The 12 essays, commissioned for a conference on school choice that took place at Boston College in 2001, are organized into four sections that consider the relationship of school choice to equality, moral pluralism, institutional ecology, and constitutionality. Each section consists of three es

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Brand: Princeton University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0691096600
Category: Books > Subjects > Science, Nature & Maths > Education
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 07 February 2003
Listed Since: 13 February 2007

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