Charles Glenn, Author at NextSteps: Step Up For Students

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Charles Glenn

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12/22/15 | Charles Glenn

Why America is behind Europe on educational freedom

The United States ranks among the lowest of Western democracies in governmental support for educational freedom, and particularly for the right of parents to select schools that correspond to their...

10/13/15 | Charles Glenn

A radical’s take on educational freedom

This guest post is part of our continuing series on the center-left roots of school choice. It may be hard for younger readers to imagine a time when to be...

12/26/14 | Charles Glenn

Wishing for the sprouting of education reform, near and far

Editor’s note: The U.S. is hardly the only place on the planet where parental school choice and education reform are hot topics, as Boston University Professor Charles Glenn reminds us...

06/27/14 | Charles Glenn

Catholic schools, gay employees and the duty of loyalty

In recent months, there has been a steady stream of high-profile stories about Catholic school policies towards gay employees. In one, the front page of the New York Times relayed...

02/06/14 | Charles Glenn

Balancing freedom & justice to shape school choice accountability

Editor’s note: This post originally appeared on the Fordham Institute’s Choice Words blog. It’s one of many pieces written in response to Fordham’s release of a “school choice toolkit” for...

07/01/13 | Charles Glenn

In education debates, the tired arguments of secular fundamentalism

Editor’s note: This piece is in response to Friday’s guest post from Alex J. Luchenitser of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. It seems simplest, though scarcely elegant,...

06/24/13 | Charles Glenn

Time for a ‘Brown’ ruling on religious discrimination in education

New Hampshire joined other states in adopting a tuition tax credit program in 2012; now this has been partially blocked by a ruling that illustrates how urgently the United States...

10/10/12 | Charles Glenn

Families should be free to choose schools they trust

Every school, whether intentionally or not, teaches more than academic subjects. Simply participating in the daily life of a school, its routines and how it justifies and enforces them, its...

10/02/12 | Charles Glenn

School choice is good for democracy

The belief that a society or a nation can be unified – its barriers of religion, class, and race broken down – by bringing its children together in common schools...

09/27/12 | Charles Glenn

A history lesson on educational freedom

Editor’s note: School choice isn’t just an American debate, and it’s not just at issue now. Noted school choice scholar Charles Glenn offers redefinED readers some historical context. This is the...

07/17/12 | Charles Glenn

It’s the school, not the curriculum, that fosters real citizenship

Editor’s note: Critics often suggest that expanding school choice to include private, faith-based schools will erode democracy. But noted school choice expert Charles Glenn says the evidence shows the opposite...

06/29/12 | Charles Glenn

In America and abroad, no reason to fear faith-based schools

Editor’s note: America isn’t the only place where school choice raises questions about not only education, but pluralism, citizenship and social integration. Noted school choice expert Charles Glenn, a Boston...

01/11/12 | Charles Glenn

Transparency in education — how the U.S. leads

I wrote recently about the Europe-wide study coordinated by OIDEL, called IPPE: Indicators for Parental Participation in Compulsory Education. While the United States lags behind most of Europe in recognizing...

01/09/12 | Charles Glenn

Measuring responsiveness to parents

One of the recent projects of OIDEL, the Geneva-based NGO mentioned in my last post, has been to coordinate researchers from across Europe in a project to identify and then...

01/04/12 | Charles Glenn

Widening our school reform horizons

In the early decades of the 19th century, American education reformers followed eagerly the developments in European countries that were building systems of popular schooling; Horace Mann even spent his...

11/15/11 | Charles Glenn

How a stubborn Catholic Church fostered worldwide educational choice

I head this week to Madrid for the annual meeting of OIDEL, a Geneva-based organization promoting educational freedom around the world. We advocate for policies that allow parents to decide...

10/24/11 | Charles Glenn

Widening support for school choice

Editor’s note: This entry comes from Charles Glenn, professor of educational leadership at Boston University and the former director of urban education and equity efforts for the Massachusetts Department of...