Religious Charter Schools
Religious Charter Schools

Author: Lawrence D. Weinberg

Publisher: IAP

Published: 2007-08-01

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 1607526220

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This book explores the constitutionality of religion-based charter schools. The method of analysis uses hypothetical charter schools to answer legal questions. The answers are grounded in law using the latest precedent. The background material before examining charters sets forth both the legal and policy contexts of religious charters schools. The legal context includes a detailed analysis of the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution focusing on the most recent Supreme Court cases on that topic. The policy analysis examines the normative and structural dimensions of charter schools, which are then compared with voucher programs. The historical, political and educational contexts of charter programs are also examined. The book concludes that charter schools present an opportunity for parents and communities to form charter schools that will accommodate their beliefs; however, the constitution does not allow them to form schools that endorse their beliefs.

Blurring The Lines
Blurring The Lines

Author: Bruce S. Cooper

Publisher: IAP

Published: 2010-10-01

Total Pages: 149

ISBN-13: 1617351466

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This book, Blurring the Lines, has immediate appeal to policy-makers, and analysis in public and private sectors, as well as legal scholars and practitioners. It will be of interest, too, to university teachers working in the areas of "School Law," "School Policy and Politics," and "New Trends in American K-12 Education." The book treats the complex and interesting issues of Church-State and Public-Private education, the two great changing cross-road in US education.

Inside Charter Schools
Inside Charter Schools

Author: Bruce Fuller

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2009-06-30

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 0674037421

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Deepening disaffection with conventional public schools has inspired flight to private schools, home schooling, and new alternatives, such as charter schools. Barely a decade old, the charter school movement has attracted a colorful band of supporters, from presidential candidates, to ethnic activists, to the religious Right. At present there are about 1,700 charter schools, with total enrollment estimated to reach one million early in the century. Yet, until now, little has been known about the inner workings of these small, inventive schools that rely on public money but are largely independent of local school boards. Inside Charter Schools takes readers into six strikingly different schools, from an evangelical home-schooling charter in California to a back-to-basics charter in a black neighborhood in Lansing, Michigan. With a keen eye for human aspirations and dilemmas, the authors provide incisive analysis of the challenges and problems facing this young movement. Do charter schools really spur innovation, or do they simply exacerbate tribal forms of American pluralism? Inside Charter Schools provides shrewd and illuminating studies of the struggles and achievements of these new schools, and offers practical lessons for educators, scholars, policymakers, and parents.

Educating Believers
Educating Believers

Author: Robert Maranto

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-06-09

Total Pages: 139

ISBN-13: 100002704X

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Educating Believers: Religion and School Choice offers theoretical essays and empirical studies from leading researchers on religion and schooling. Religious authority and emphasis on fairness and caring provide consistent rules governing the stable family and community relationships needed for individual growth and collective action. Religion is among the most important aspects of human life, likely hard-wired into human beings, and intimately intertwined with schooling. The book addresses key matters regarding religious pluralism in education, including the history of state-faith relationships in schooling, how religious faith can motivate teachers, whether religious education teaches tolerance, and whether practices in Europe and Asia hold lessons for American schools. The works in this volume can guide future scholarship on religious pluralism in education, particularly work related to civic values, character formation and public policy. The chapters in this book were originally published in the Journal of School Choice.

Have a Little Faith
Have a Little Faith

Author: Benjamin Justice

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2016-11-09

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 022640059X

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It isn’t just in recent arguments over the teaching of intelligent design or reciting the pledge of allegiance that religion and education have butted heads: since their beginnings nearly two centuries ago, public schools have been embroiled in heated controversies over religion’s place in the education system of a pluralistic nation. In this book, Benjamin Justice and Colin Macleod take up this rich and significant history of conflict with renewed clarity and astonishing breadth. Moving from the American Revolution to the present—from the common schools of the nineteenth century to the charter schools of the twenty-first—they offer one of the most comprehensive assessments of religion and education in America that has ever been published. From Bible readings and school prayer to teaching evolution and cultivating religious tolerance, Justice and Macleod consider the key issues and colorful characters that have shaped the way American schools have attempted to negotiate religious pluralism in a politically legitimate fashion. While schools and educational policies have not always advanced tolerance and understanding, Justice and Macleod point to the many efforts Americans have made to find a place for religion in public schools that both acknowledges the importance of faith to so many citizens and respects democratic ideals that insist upon a reasonable separation of church and state. Finally, they apply the lessons of history and political philosophy to an analysis of three critical areas of religious controversy in public education today: student-led religious observances in extracurricular activities, the tensions between freedom of expression and the need for inclusive environments, and the shift from democratic control of schools to loosely regulated charter and voucher programs. Altogether Justice and Macleod show how the interpretation of educational history through the lens of contemporary democratic theory offers both a richer understanding of past disputes and new ways of addressing contemporary challenges.

Christian Charter Schools Now!
Christian Charter Schools Now!

Author: Byron Perrine

Publisher:

Published: 2020-11-24

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13:

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This book presents the case for school choice and provides a description of a hypothetical publicly funded Christian charter school grades K-12. The author argues that parents wishing their children to attend a K-12 school in which religious values are affirmed, and in which spiritual as well as physical, mental, and social development are a part of the school curriculum, are unjustly prevented from realizing that aspiration by restrictive laws governing public charter schools. All parents pay taxes in support of public education, but only those parents sending their children to secular schools reap the benefit. And there are private school options to public secular schools, most parents desiring that their children be education in a religious school do not have the financial means to pay tuition. The only fair and equitable solution, the author argues, is for revocation of laws which restrict public funding of K-12 religious charter schools. The author then describes the curriculum and educational philosophy of a hypothetical Christian charter school borrowing from a number of well known and respected educational theorists, philosophers, and Christian educators.

Charter Schools as a Faith-Based Initiative: Is This a Possibility?
Charter Schools as a Faith-Based Initiative: Is This a Possibility?

Author: Cecilia R Eaves-Walker M. Eds.

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2020-06-26

Total Pages: 149

ISBN-13: 1663200769

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It is the intent of this independent research project to point out that although society has made a tremendous leap since the 1964 Civil Rights Act; we can still do more to bring about a change in the way we view and educate other ethnicities, races, religions, and cultures of which we may have very limited understanding. By becoming responsive to these differences, such as, skin color, eye shape, speech/language, or even religious practice, we can help create, for our students, our schools, and ourselves a better understanding of educating others who are different. This is the root of charter schools. This independent research project (IRP) seeks to address diversity generically as the world of difference as an aspect in educational settings as opposed to our present school's inattentiveness to diversity

The First Amendment in Schools
The First Amendment in Schools

Author: Charles C. Haynes

Publisher: ASCD

Published: 2003-11-15

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 1416612599

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What are the First Amendment rights? How do you resolve questions about the rights of students, educators, and parents in a school setting? The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects the most basic and cherished rights of society--religion, speech, press, petition, and assembly. Anyone who wants to know more about those freedoms in the context of schools will find The First Amendment in Schools a rich resource for study and application. The book includes * An explanation of the origins of the First Amendment * A concise, chronological history of 50 legal cases, including many landmark decisions, involving the First Amendment in public schools * Answers to frequently asked questions about the practice of the First Amendment in schools, covering specific issues of religious liberty, free speech, and press as they affect school prayer, use of school facilities, dress and speech codes, student press, book selection, and curriculum * General information on First Amendment expression and practice in schools * Information on more than 60 educational and advocacy programs and organizations for First Amendment resources * A profile of First Amendment Schools This book provides a civic and legal framework for giving all members of the school community--students, parents, teachers, administrators, and community members--a real voice in shaping the life of the school. Note: This product listing is for the reflowable (ePub) version of the book.

Charters, Vouchers and Public Education
Charters, Vouchers and Public Education

Author: Paul E. Peterson

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2004-05-13

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 0815798245

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This volume brings together the most current empirical research on two important innovations reshaping American education today-voucher programs and charter schools. Contributors include the foremost analysts in education policy. Of specific significance is cutting-edge research that evaluates the impact of vouchers on academic performance in the New York City, Washington, D.C., and Dayton, Ohio, school systems. The volume also looks beyond the American experience to consider the impact of market-based education as pioneered by New Zealand. Contributors also take stock of the movement's effects on public schools in particular and public opinion at-large. With thorough summaries of the existing research and the legal issues facing school choice, Charters, Vouchers, and Public Education will be key to readers who want to stay current with the burgeoning debates on vouchers and charter schools. Contributors include Terry Moe (Stanford University and the Hoover Institution), Gregg Vanourek (Yale University), Chester E. Finn Jr. (Manhattan Institute and the Fordham Foundation), Bruno V. Manno (Annie E. Casey Foundation), Michael Mintrom and David Plank (Michigan State University), Helen Ladd (Duke University), Edward Fiske (former New York Times columnist), Jay P. Greene (Manhattan Institute), William G. Howell (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Patrick J. Wolf (Georgetown University and the Brookings Institution), Mark Schneider, Paul Teske, Sara Clark, and S. P. Buckley (SUNY-Stony Brook), Robert Maranto (Villanova University), Frederick Hess (University of Virginia), Scott Milliman (James Madison University), Brett Kleitz (University of Houston), Kristin Thalhammer (St. Olaf College), Joseph Viteritti (New York University), Paul Hill (University of Washington and Brookings Institution), and Diane Ravitch (New York University and Brookings Institution).

Rhetoric vs. Reality
Rhetoric vs. Reality

Author: Michael Timpane

Publisher: Rand Corporation

Published: 2001-12-12

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 0833032550

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How can the education of our nation's children be improved? Vouchers and charter schools aim to improve education by providing families with more choice in the schooling of their children and by decentralizing the provision of educational services. While supporters argue that school choice is essential to rescue children from failing schools, opponents claim that it may destroy America's public education system. The authors undertake an exhaustive and critical view of the evidence on vouchers and charter schools. The book is a useful, unbiased primer for all those interested in this controversial topic.