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Equitable Opportunities for All Children

Apr 23, 2012

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Equitable Opportunities for All Children

Since the government mandates education for children and provides resources for fulfilling that mandate, no organizations seeking to fulfill the government’s education mandate should be denied access to such resources simply because they provide education from an explicitly religious perspective.
Parental choice: the next civil rights movement.

Disestablishing Our Secular Schools

Apr 16, 2012

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Disestablishing Our Secular Schools

This is thorny ground. Society needs to inculcate habits and attitudes that permit adults to live together. But for government to seek to shape the beliefs of young people threatens the fundamental right of free exercise of religion. The tasks of educational reform must start, then, with the process of educational disestablishment and real assistance to independent schools.

A Different Way

Apr 11, 2012

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A Different Way

SIX QUESTIONS . . . In a sense, all my research and writing has aimed to understand how some societies came to see an irreconcilable conflict between social justice and the rights of conscience, a conflict played out especially in popular education.