Review
`Harry Brighouse's School Choice and Social Justice is a very important book. The increasingly shrill, predictable, and polarized debate in North America about the future of public education stands in sharpest contrast to Brighouse's measured tone and meticulous argumentation. ' Eamonn Callan (Stanford University)
`One of the best works of philosophy of education I have ever read, and possibly the best book on school choice ever written. It is also a valuable contribution to the important enterprise of making a place in political philosophy for children. ' Randall Curren (University of Rochester)
`It is difficult to communicate the true worth of Harry Brighouse's School Choice and Social Justice. Not only does it provide unique insights on issues of educational justice and careful arguments about such things as parental rights, the nature of autonomy, and the role of diversity, it offers well reasoned commentary about specific school reform movements in both England and the United States. ' Walter Feinberg (University of Illinois, Urbana)
Product Description
Harry Brighouse provides a new theory of justice for education, arguing that justice requires that all children have a real opportunity to become autonomous persons, and that the state use a criterion of educational equality for deploying educational resources. Through systematic presentation
of empirical evidence, Brighouse argues that existing schemes do not fare well against the criterion of social justice, yet this need not impugn school choice. He offers a school choice proposal that could implement social justice and explains why other essential educational reforms can be
compatible with choice.
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