Visions of Schooling
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Conscience, Community, and Common Education
Rosemary C. Salomone
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Salomone demonstrates how contemporary conflicts are the product of past educational and social movements. She lays bare some of the myths that support the current government monopoly over education and reveals how it privileges those of economic means. Through a detailed case study of recent controversy in a suburban New York school district, the author explores the legal and policy issues that arise when widely disparate world views stand in the way of political compromise on educational materials, techniques, and programs. Salomone builds a case for educational governance that places the developmental needs of the child at the center of family autonomy. She advances a plan that respects diverse values and visions of schooling while preserving the core commitments that bind our nation.
“Salomone, fully appreciating the dangers posed by the statists on the one hand and the radical individualists on the other, makes her own proposal a model of fairness and balance.”—John F. Coons, University of California at Berkeley School of Law
“A consummate account, historical and contemporary, of the surging legal and political school wars that pit family autonomy and religious conscience against civic and communal demands—together with the author’s creative proposal for peace.”—John G. Simon, Augustus Lines Professor of Law, Yale Law School
"How do we ensure common values in a pluralist society—and how do we protect individual freedom and self-determination in activities that the state controls? Rosemary Salomone gives sober and thorough guidance on these issues in the crucial context of schooling. Her treatments of school choice, children’s needs, parental rights, and intergroup conflict are remarkably fair, clear and useful. This book should be read by parents and political leaders as well as scholars and students."—Martha Minow, Professor of Law, Harvard University (author of Making All the Difference: Inclusion, Exclusion and American Law; Only for Myself: Identity, Politics and Law between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History After Genocide and Mass Violence)
“Rosemary Salomone has written an extremely helpful book on the value conflicts that have marked and increasingly characterize American public education. Clearly some common visions and assumptions that brought together parents, children and students are no longer operative. This book is an excellent guide to the conflicts we cannot avoid in the process of education.”—Nathan Glazer, Harvard University
“Many readers could learn a lot from Rosemary Salomone’s Visions of Schooling, another new volume that endorses school vouchers. What’s refreshing about Salomone’s book is the route she takes getting there.”—Stephen D. Sugarman, Law and Politics Book Review
“[Salomone] could cause concerned citizens to ‘think outside the box’ and to begin a process that could create a more harmonious environment in public schools.”—Library Journal
“Salomone supports and advocates single-sex education with sound theories and also corrects many current misconceptions.”—NEA Today
Publication Date: September 10, 2002
