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Authoritative Homes

Charles L. Glenn

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...

SCOTUS Rules for Religious Schools

Charles L. Glenn

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 Future of Faith-Based Schools

Charles L. Glenn

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...

Anti-Religious Education

Charles L. Glenn

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...

Regressive Ed

Charles L. Glenn

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...

Oppression by Indifference

Charles L. Glenn

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...

My Excommunication

Charles L. Glenn

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...

The Past in Full

Charles L. Glenn

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...

Faith-Based Resistance

Charles L. Glenn

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...

Disestablishing Our Secular Schools

Charles L. Glenn

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...

A Not-So-Radical Alternative

Charles L. Glenn

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...

The Learning of Liberty

Charles L. Glenn

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War in the Classroom

Charles L. Glenn

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Educating for Freedom?

Charles L. Glenn

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The Blackboard Bungle

Charles L. Glenn

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