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A Rawlsian Instrument For The Evaluation Of Justice In Educational Policy Documents, Ronald Thompson
A Rawlsian Instrument For The Evaluation Of Justice In Educational Policy Documents, Ronald Thompson
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This study presents a tool which uses the political philosophy of John Rawls to evaluate Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) its most recent 2001 form (better known as No Child Left Behind). The devised tool was directly derived from Rawls's two basic principles of justice as fairness that he defines and expands upon throughout his writings. These two principles were divided into three arenas of publicly funded education: justice in the democratic processes, justice in the allocation of resources, and justice in the goals of schools. Via a series of 14 rubrics, the texts of …