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Liberal States, Authoritarian Families: Childhood and Education in Early Modern Thoughtby rita koganzonoxford, 224 pages, $74 Parental authority has been an issue of lively and often bitter public debate...

This week, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled 6–3 in Carson v. Makin that a Maine program that bars “sectarian” schools from receiving state-funded tuition assistance is a violation...

The Supreme Court is considering yet another case involving public funding of religious schools, Carson v. Makin. The case raises important questions about the fate of faith-based schools and...

I spent the first thirty years of my adult life fighting racial injustice in America. I was a community activist in Boston in the sixties, I spent time in jail...

The Cult of Smart:How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injusticeby fredrik deboer all points, 288 pages, $28.99 The academic achievement gap has been the subject of thousands of...

Almost all Western democracies other than the United States provide public support to parents who wish to send their children to private schools with a distinctive religious character. In...

How is it possible? A denomination so proud of its inclusivity. Have I advocated false doctrines? I accept wholeheartedly the faith expressed in the creeds and in the Thirty-Nine...

There’s a book I keep in the bathroom at home, a big blue volume of 750 pages titled, somewhat ironically, The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes. A terrific book...

S everal related questions underpin much of the discussion about the growing presence of Muslim immigrants and their children in the United States. Will these immigrants and their children...

Last June, I was in Ukraine advising civil society groups that are seeking to ensure that the new Ukrainian education law promotes religious and educational freedom, including the rights...

Just about everyone agrees that one reason religious belief and practice have flourished in the United States, in comparison with Western Europe, is that one state after another in...

Kingdom of the Children: Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movement by Mitchell L. Stevens Princeton University Press, 238 pages, $24.95 A recent government report documents a remarkable growth...

Independence won, George Washington faced a near-mutiny of his officers, unwilling to return to civilian life until their arrears of salary had been paid. Washington appeared unexpectedly at a...

Battleground: One Mother’s Crusade, The Religious Right, and the Struggle for Control of our Classrooms  by stephen bates  poseidon press, 365 pages, $24 The 1983 protest by a group...

An Aristocracy of Everyone: The Politics of Education and The Future of America by benjamin r. barber ballantine books, 370 pages, $20 “In the spring of 1988,” writes Benjamin...