LEADER 03696nam 2200505 450 001 9910466660903321 005 20191107122834.0 010 $a1-5017-2384-7 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501723841 035 $a(CKB)4100000007109510 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5965015 035 $a(DE-B1597)514883 035 $a(OCoLC)1083580037 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501723841 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5965015 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007109510 100 $a20191107d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aVouchers within reason $ea child-centered approach to education reform /$fJames G. Dwyer 210 1$aIthaca ;$aLondon :$cCornell University Press,$d2002. 215 $a1 online resource (vii, 248 pages) 311 $a0-8014-3948-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 217-242) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Vouchers and Adult-Centered Legal Reasoning -- $t2. Education Reform and Adult-Centered Political Theory -- $t3. A Utilitarian Assessment of Vouchers -- $t4. A Moral Rights-Based Assessment -- $t5. Making Sense of Antiestablishment Principles -- $t6. The Equal Protection Strategy for Compelling Aid to Religious Schools -- $t7. An Introduction to the Real World -- $t8. A Moral Assessment of Existing Voucher Programs -- $tConclusion -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aObserving the storm of recent debates around school vouchers, James G. Dwyer concludes that the welfare of children has been routinely subordinated to the interests and supposed rights of various groups of adults-parents, teachers, taxpayers, and advocates for ideological causes. Dwyer argues that a truly child-centered approach to education reform would yield dramatically different conclusions regarding the morality and constitutionality of government initiatives to improve public and private schooling in America.Dwyer makes the case that state funding of religious and other private schools is not only permissible, but mandatory, as a moral and constitutional right of the children already in private schools. In Vouchers within Reason, he also demonstrates the necessity of attaching to that funding robust standards for the content and nature of instruction and for treatment of students. These are just the sort of regulatory strings that most current supporters of vouchers fear.In the author's view, vouchers represent an opportunity for states to accomplish what they have been unable to do in the past-namely, to bring academic accountability to religious schools, many of which fail to provide a good secular education. He sees voucher programs that are now in place as morally irresponsible and clearly unconstitutional, however, because they require almost nothing of recipient schools in return for the funding. This book reorients the hot topic of universal school vouchers in a new and vital direction that may change the minds of scholars, educators, and policymakers alike. 606 $aEducational vouchers$xLaw and legislation$zUnited States 606 $aEducational vouchers$zUnited States 606 $aSchool choice$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEducational vouchers$xLaw and legislation 615 0$aEducational vouchers 615 0$aSchool choice 676 $a379.1110973 700 $aDwyer$b James G.$f1961-$0475268 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910466660903321 996 $aVouchers within reason$92447347 997 $aUNINA