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Education by Choice

The Case for Family Control

By: John E. Coons,Stephen D. Sugarman

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Education by Choice

The Case for Family Control

By: John E. Coons,Stephen D. Sugarman

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.

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Univ of California Press

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0520317394

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9780520317390

By Nature Equal

The Anatomy of a Western Insight

By: John E. Coons,Patrick M. Brennan

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By Nature Equal

The Anatomy of a Western Insight

By: John E. Coons,Patrick M. Brennan

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Princeton University Press

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0691059225

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9780691059228

The Case for Parental Choice

God, Family, and Educational Liberty

By: John E. Coons

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The Case for Parental Choice

God, Family, and Educational Liberty

By: John E. Coons

This work makes a richly humanitarian case for parental school choice, seeking to advance social justice and respect the dignity of parents—especially those on the margins. For decades, arguments in favor of school choice have largely been advanced on the basis of utility or outcome rather than social justice and human dignity. The Case for Parental Choice: God, Family, and Educational Liberty offers a compelling and humanitarian alternative. This volume contains an edited collection of essays by John E. Coons, a visionary legal scholar and ardent supporter of what is perhaps best described as a social justice case for parental school choice. Few have written more prodigiously or prophetically about the need to give parents—particularly poor parents—power over their children’s schooling. Coons has been an advocate of school choice for over sixty years, and indeed remains one of the most articulate proponents of a case for school choice that promotes both low-income parents and civic engagement, as opposed to mere efficiency or achievement. His is a distinctively Catholic voice that brings powerful normative arguments to debates that far too often get bogged down in disputes about cost savings and test scores. The essays collected herein treat a wide variety of topics, including the relationship between school choice and individual autonomy; the implications of American educational policy for social justice, equality, and community; the impact of public schooling on low-income families; and the religious implications of school choice. Together, these pieces make for a wide-ranging and morally compelling case for parental choice in children’s schooling.

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401

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University of Notre Dame Pess

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0268204837

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9780268204839

School Choice and Human Good

Why All Parents Must Be Empowered to Choose

By: John E. Coons

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School Choice and Human Good

Why All Parents Must Be Empowered to Choose

By: John E. Coons

John Coons is a progressive Berkeley law professor emeritus who in 1978 published a seminal book on the need for private school choice in the United States for children of lesser means. His motivation was and is straightforward. Families of greater means have always chosen their children’s schools, whether by moving to preferred neighborhoods or paying private tuitions. Coons says we can’t with good conscience continue to rob poor children of similar opportunities, children who often have the greatest educational needs. This book represents the ongoing observations of Coons, now 92 years of age, as he has written in brief essays published on an education blog in Florida – a state with an extraordinary degree of K-12 learning options. In a political arena that has been polarized on the issue of educational choice, Coons is a reminder that Democratic progressives were among the earliest to see value in expanding the educational universe of disadvantaged schoolchildren.

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257

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Balboa Press

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1982274530

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9781982274535

Politics, Markets, and America's Schools

By: John E. Chubb,Terry M. Moe

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Politics, Markets, and America's Schools

By: John E. Chubb,Terry M. Moe

During the 1980s, widespread dissatisfaction with America's schools gave rise to a powerful movement for educational change, and the nation's political institutions responded with aggressive reforms. Chubb and Moe argue that these reforms are destined to fail because they do not get to the root of the problem. The fundamental causes of poor academic performance, they claim, are not to be found in the schools, but rather in the institutions of direct democratic control by which the schools have traditionally been governed. Reformers fail to solve the problem-when the institutions ARE the problem. The authors recommend a new system of public education, built around parent-student choice and school competition, that would promote school autonomy—thus providing a firm foundation for genuine school improvement and superior student achievement.

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348

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Brookings Institution Press

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0815717261

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9780815717263

CRC Handbook of Viruses Infecting Legumes

By: John R. Edwardson

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CRC Handbook of Viruses Infecting Legumes

By: John R. Edwardson

This interesting handbook discusses 145 plant viruses in 27 groups and 31 unclassified viruses in naturally infected legumes. The viruses were observed in field infections of 281 species in 64 genera of the Leguminosae. The book presents information regarding resistance sources and resistance-breeding, vectors, seed transmission, and host ranges. Measurements of virus properties are organized in tabular form for particle dimensions, serological relationships, nucleic acid percentages, sedimentation coefficients of particles and nucleic acids, molecular weights of nucleic acids and coat proteins, optical density, and buoyant density. Handbook of Viruses Infecting Legumes is unique in that it relates inclusion cytology to plant virus detection, identification, and classification. Light and electron micrographs illustrate morphology, location, and staining reactions of inclusions. Of the 27 groups that contain viruses infecting legumes in nature, inclusions are diagnostic at the group level in 15 of these groups. Plant breeders, diagnosticians, plant virologists, and students of plant virology will find this an indispensable guide to legume viruses.

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860

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CRC Press

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1351088092

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9781351088091

American Legal Realism and Empirical Social Science

By: John Henry Schlegel

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American Legal Realism and Empirical Social Science

By: John Henry Schlegel

John Henry Schlegel recovers a largely ignored aspect of American Legal Realism, a movement in legal thought in the 1920's and 1930's that sought to bring the modern notion of empirical science into the study and teaching of law. In this book, he explores individual Realist scholars' efforts to challenge the received notion that the study of law was primarily a matter of learning rules and how to manipulate them. He argues that empirical research was integral to Legal Realism, and he explores why this kind of research did not, finally, become a part of American law school curricula.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807821799

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9780807821794

Role Motivation Theories

By: John B. Miner

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Role Motivation Theories

By: John B. Miner

An in-depth analysis of four types of organisation and what makes them work.

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380

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Psychology Press

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0415119944

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9780415119948

Church, State, and Family

Reconciling Traditional Teachings and Modern Liberties

By: John Witte (Jr.)

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Church, State, and Family

Reconciling Traditional Teachings and Modern Liberties

By: John Witte (Jr.)

Presents a robust defence of the essential place of stable marital families in modern liberal societies.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107184754

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Education by Choice

Education by Choice

By Nature Equal

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School Choice and Human Good

School Choice and Human Good

Politics, Markets, and America's Schools

Politics, Markets, and America's Schools

CRC Handbook of Viruses Infecting Legumes

CRC Handbook of Viruses Infecting Legumes

American Legal Realism and Empirical Social Science

American Legal Realism and Empirical Social Science

Role Motivation Theories

Role Motivation Theories

Church, State, and Family

Church, State, and Family

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