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Education And Anti-Semitism, Jay. P. Greene, Albert Cheng, Ian Kingsbury
Education And Anti-Semitism, Jay. P. Greene, Albert Cheng, Ian Kingsbury
Education Reform Faculty and Graduate Students Publications
Many people believe that intolerance, in general, and anti-Semitism, in particular, are a function of ignorance, and the solution is education. We see evidence of this whenever concerns about intolerance or anti-Semitism become more salient. Proposed solutions frequently feature improved Holocaust education or expanded diversity, equity, and inclusion training. As two religious leaders recently urged, “The only thing that will truly halt the rise of anti-Semitism in America is education” (Stanton & Marcus, 2019). Profiles of anti-Semites tend to feature rural whites or urban minorities, but they are almost always from low-educational backgrounds. Well-educated people tend to feel secure in …
The Effect Of Public And Private Schooling On Anti-Semitism, Jay P. Greene, Cari A. Bogulski
The Effect Of Public And Private Schooling On Anti-Semitism, Jay P. Greene, Cari A. Bogulski
Education Reform Faculty and Graduate Students Publications
Most major American Jewish organizations oppose voucher and other school choice programs based in part on the fear that private, mostly religious, schools do not check the development of anti-Semitism as well as do government-operated public schools. To examine whether private and public schools differ in their effect on the emergence of anti-Semitic attitudes in adults later in life, we conducted a large survey of a nationally representative sample of adults in the United States. Subjects were asked to provide details on the type of school they attended each year between 1st and 12th grade, including whether the school was …