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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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