Educating Citizens International Perspectives on Civic Values and School Choice 1st Edition by Patrick Wolf, Stephen Macedo, David Ferrero, Charles Venegoni ISBN 9780815796688 0815796684

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ISBN 10:  0815796684

ISBN 13: 9780815796688

Author:  Patrick Wolf, Stephen Macedo, David Ferrero, Charles Venegoni

The United States is in the midst of historic experiments with publicly funded choice in K-12 education, experiments that recently received a “”green light”” from the Supreme Court. Other nations have long experience with the funding and regulation of nonpublic schools, including religious schools. This book asks what U.S. policymakers, public officials, and citizens can learn from these experiences. In particular, how do other countries regulate or structure publicly funded educational choice with an eye toward civic values—looking not only for improvements in test scores, but also in tolerance, civic cohesion, and democratic values such as integration across the lines of class, religion, and race?

The experience of Europe and Canada with school choice is both extensive and varied. In England and Wales, public school choice is widespread, as parents play a significant role in selecting the school their children will attend. In the Netherlands and much of Belgium, a majority of students attend religious schools at government expense. In Canada, France, and Germany, state-financed school choice is limited to circumstances that serve particular social and governmental needs. In Italy, school choice has just recently arrived on the policy agenda. In spite of the diversity of national experiences, in all of these countries choice is regulated by the government in significant and varied ways to promote civic values. In several of these countries, school choice policy itself appears to have played an important role in promoting social cohesion and integration. This book presents a wealth of experience designed to aid policymakers and citizens as they consider historic changes in American public education policy.

Table of contents: 

1. Introduction: School Choice, Civic Values, and Problems of Policy Comparison
   STEPHEN MACEDO and PATRICK J. WOLF

2. Regulating School Choice to Promote Civic Values: Constitutional and Political Issues in the Netherlands
   BEN P. VERMEULEN

3. Private Schools as Public Provision for Education: School Choice and Market Forces in the Netherlands
   ANNE BERT DIJKSTRA, JAAP DRONKERS and SJOERD KARSTEN

4. Regulation, Choice, and Basic Values in Education in England and Wales: A Legal Perspective
   NEVILLE HARRIS

5. School Choice Policies and Social Integration: The Experience of England and Wales
   STEPHEN GORARD

6. Regulating School Choice in Belgium’s Flemish Community
   JAN DE GROOF

7. The Civic Implications of Canada’s Education System
   DAVID E. CAMPBELL

8. School Choice and Civic Values in Germany
   LUTZ R. REUTER

9. School Choice and Its Regulation in France
   DENIS MEURET

10. Italy: The Impossible Choice
    LUISA RIBOLZI

11. Do Public and Religious Schools Really Differ? Assessing the European Evidence
    JAAP DRONKERS

Part 2: Analysis and Commentary

12. Civic Republicanism, Political Pluralism, and the Regulation of Private Schools
    WILLIAM GALSTON

13. Regulatory Strings and Religious Freedom: Requiring Private Schools to Promote Public Values
    RICHARD W. GARNETT

14. School Choice as a Question of Design
    CHARLES L. GLENN

15. Regulation in Public and Private Schools in the United States
    JOHN F. WITTE

16. A Regulated Market Model: Considering School Choice in the Netherlands as a Model for the United States

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