Author : Larry P. Arnn
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 25,82 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780916308001
History of how the educational system has changed. From the beginning of this country till now. Arguments for liberal education and limited government.
Author : Robert C. Enlow
Publisher : Cato Institute
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 32,91 MB
Release : 2009-09-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 1933995378
Fifty years ago, Milton Friedman had the ground-breaking idea to improve public education with school vouchers. By separating government financing of education from government administration of schools, Friedman argued, “parents at all income levels would have the freedom to choose the schools their children attend.” Liberty & Learning is a collection of essays from the nation’s top education experts evaluating the progress of Friedman’s innovative idea and reflecting on its merits in the 21st century. The book also contains a special prologue and epilogue by Milton Friedman himself. The contributors to this volume take a variety of approaches to Friedman’s voucher idea. All of them assess the merit of Friedman’s plan through an energetic, contemporary perspective, though some authors take a theoretical position, while others employ a very pragmatic approach.
Author : Lorraine Smith Pangle
Publisher : Lawrence, KS : University Press of Kansas
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 36,67 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Education
ISBN :
"This very important book is original, sweeping, and wise about the relation between education and liberal democracy in the United States. The Pangles reconsider superior ideas from the founding period in a way that illuminates any serious thinking on American education, whether policy-oriented or historical". -- American Political Science Review. "An important and thoughtful book, stimulating for citizens as well as scholars". -- Journal of American History.
Author : Jason Bedrick
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 36,52 MB
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1475854412
Over the last few years, Orthodox Jewish private schools, also known as yeshivas, have been under fire by a group of activists known as Young Advocates for Fair Education, run by several yeshiva graduates, who have criticized them for providing an inadequate secular education. At the heart of the yeshiva controversy lies two important interests in education: the right of the parent to choose an appropriate education, which may include values-laden religious education, and the right of each child to receive an appropriate education, as guaranteed by the state. These interests raise further questions. If preference is given to the former, how much freedom should be given to a parent in choosing an appropriate education? If the latter, how does the state define what constitutes an appropriate education or measure the extent to which an appropriate education has been achieved? And when can—or must—the state override the wishes of parents? The purpose of this book is to explore these difficult questions.
Author : Commission on Academic Freedom and Pre-College Education
Publisher :
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 11,94 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Academic freedom
ISBN :
Author : Bruce J. Dierenfield
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 14,34 MB
Release : 2020-07-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 0252052080
In 1988, Sandi and Larry Zobrest sued a suburban Tucson, Arizona, school district that had denied their hearing-impaired son a taxpayer-funded interpreter in his Roman Catholic high school. The Catalina Foothills School District argued that providing a public resource for a private, religious school created an unlawful crossover between church and state. The Zobrests, however, claimed that the district had infringed on both their First Amendment right to freedom of religion and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Bruce J. Dierenfield and David A. Gerber use the Zobrests' story to examine the complex history and jurisprudence of disability accommodation and educational mainstreaming. They look at the family's effort to acquire educational resources for their son starting in early childhood and the choices the Zobrests made to prepare him for life in the hearing world rather than the deaf community. Dierenfield and Gerber also analyze the thorny church-state issues and legal controversies that informed the case, its journey to the U.S. Supreme Court, and the impact of the high court's ruling on the course of disability accommodation and religious liberty.
Author : William Fletcher Russell
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 38,74 MB
Release : 1933
Category : Democracy
ISBN :
Author : Rosemary Chamberlin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 40,27 MB
Release : 2016-09-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 1315531992
This book, first published in 1989, relates a theory of liberty to the practice of education, and reveals the implications of beliefs about freedom for our schools and classrooms. The author makes a reasoned plea for society to have more respect for children and not treat them as an inferior sub-species. The central argument of this book is for greater education in democracy, and greater democracy in education. This title will be of interest to students of the philosophy of education.
Author : James Donald
Publisher : Verso
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 39,64 MB
Release : 1992-05-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780860915553
What sort of institution is education? In this iconoclastic study, James Donald restores the school to its proper place at the heart of post-Enlightenment culture and politics. He traces the emergence of education as an apparatus designed—forlornly—to shape the souls of citizens. He also draws illuminating analogies between education and broadcasting, showing how both conjure up publics and structure the everyday lives of individuals. To balance this focus on the institution of cultural norms, Donald emphasizes the dynamics of fantasy and desire in their negotiation. He therefore juxtaposes the normative practices of education and broadcasting against more transgressive forms of popular culture: pornography, racist thrillers like Fu Manchu, vampire films, and what he calls the vulgar sublime. Finally, drawing on postmodern debates about community and democracy, he sketches a context for reforms in broadcasting and presents a provocative alternative to orthodox progressive ideas about education from the primary school to the university.
Author : Monroe D. Cohen
Publisher : New York : Citation Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,64 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Education
ISBN :
