Fair Opportunity in Education: A Democratic Equality Perspective  

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Anderson, Elizabeth

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Ethics: An International Journal of Social Political and Legal Philosophy vol. 117 no. 4 (Jul. 2007), page 595-622.
Topik: Demokrasi; Kesetaraan; Peluang; Segregation; Native Americans; Deficits Elites

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE44.23 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Recent work on justice in the distribution of eductional opportunities has focused on two phenomena. The first is the shift in the United States from an "equality" to an "adequacy" standard of fair educational opportunity. Instead of making the state provide equal educational inputs to rich and poor children, advocates for disadvantaged, courts, and policy makers have been trying to make the state educate all students to at least an adequate threshold of achievement. The second is the fact that education is not just an intrinsic good for individual but an important instrumental good with positional features. It opens up access to the most rewarding careers and leadership positions in society in virtue of endowing individuals with relatively superior qualifications. Because such high payoffs are attached to an individual's relative academic achievement is another,s loss of socioeconomic prospects. This consideration has led many egalitarians to reject adequancy standards for educational investment in children according to an equality standard. Only so, it is argued, can individuals have genuinely fair opportunities, and so can the state avoid unjustly injuring the already disadvantages by effectively closing them off realistic prospects for rewaeding careers and leadership positions.

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