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What We Disagree About When We Disagree About School Choice, Aaron J. Saiger
What We Disagree About When We Disagree About School Choice, Aaron J. Saiger
Faculty Scholarship
The debate over school vouchers, charter schools, and other varieties of school choice has become a bit stale. It would improve were advocates on all sides to acknowledge several crucial realities that they too often obfuscate. First, the debate is fundamentally normative, not empirical. The desirability of choice depends primarily upon how we weigh competing claims of equality and liberty in education. Second, all participants in the debate should acknowledge both that constrained choice is still genuine choice, and that how and to what extent parental decisions are constrained are fundamental issues in choice policy. Finally, with respect to the …
School Vouchers And The Constitution - Permissible, Impermissible, Or Required?, Gary J. Simson
School Vouchers And The Constitution - Permissible, Impermissible, Or Required?, Gary J. Simson
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
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The First Amendment And The Socialization Of Children: Compulsory Public Education And Vouchers, Steven H. Shiffrin
The First Amendment And The Socialization Of Children: Compulsory Public Education And Vouchers, Steven H. Shiffrin
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
Criticism of American public schools has been a cottage industry since the Nineteenth Century. In recent years the criticism has gone to the roots. Critics charge that to leave children imprisoned in the public school monopoly is to risk the standardization of our children; it is to socialize them in the preferred views of the State. They argue that it would be better to adopt a system of vouchers or private scholarships to support a multiplicity of private schools. A multiplicity of such schools, it is said, would enhance parental choice, would foster competition, and would promote a diversity of …
Why A Fundamental Right To A Quality Education Is Not Enough, James G. Wilson
Why A Fundamental Right To A Quality Education Is Not Enough, James G. Wilson
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
This article relies upon the political and economic analysis of such great thinkers as Aristotle and Rousseau to understand and normatively evaluate constitutional caselaw in general and education cases in particular. The article's title contains its conclusion: a judicially created right to a quality education is a laudable, but possibly counterproductive and definitely insufficient condition, for creating a humane constitutional system. The rest of society needs to do far more to protect the average citizen and worker from the ever-ravenous ruling class. All the edification in the world will not mean much if there are only a few decent jobs …
Public Funds, Private Schools, And The Court: Legal Issues And Policy Consequences, Michael Heise
Public Funds, Private Schools, And The Court: Legal Issues And Policy Consequences, Michael Heise
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.