Rethinking Equality of Opportunity: Comment on Adam Swift's How Not to be a Hypocrite  

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Anderson, Elizabeth

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Theory and Research in Education vol. 2 no. 2 (Jul. 2004), page 99–110.
Topik: democracy; equal opportunity; private schools; selective schools
Fulltext: 99TRE22.pdf (83.06KB)

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Adam Swift objects to private schools on the grounds of equal opportunity and efficiency, and to both private and selective public schools on the grounds of solidarity and improving the academic achievement of less advantaged students. I argue that private schools are not inefficient, and that a meritocratic ideal of equality of opportunity in K–12 contexts is either inapplicable or undesirable. Swift's objection that private school students unfairly 'jump the queue' is based on envy. Enforcing a queue by blocking extra parental investment in their children's education would be inefficient and unjustly burden people who value education highly. Nor do the educational interests of the less advantaged always justify restrictions onselective schools. However, Swift's solidarity objection against selective public schools is sound. I develop this objection in the context of ideals of democracy and equal citizenship.

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