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School Choice and Social Justice
Author(s): Harry Brighouse (Author)
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication Date: April 3, 2003
- Language: English
- Print length: 232 pages
- ISBN-10: 0199257876
- ISBN-13: 9780199257874
Book 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.
