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Benefits of Civic Education: Increased Equality and Narrowed Civic Empowerment Gap
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The Civic Empowerment Gap: Defining the Problem and Locating Solutions
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The Ethics of Pandering in Boston Public Schools’ School Assignment Plan
How can access to public elementary schools of variable quality be justly distributed within a school district? Two reasonable criteria are (a) that children should have equal opportunity to attend high-quality schools; and (b) school assignment policies should foster an overall increase in the number of high-quality schools. This article analyzes Boston Public Schools’ (BPS) new school assignment plan in light of these criteria. It shows that BPS’ plan violates equal opportunity by giving middle-class families privileged access to existing high-quality schools. BPS arguably panders to more-advantaged families, however, in order to pull them into the system and deploy their economic, political, and social capital to increase the total number of high-quality schools. Is this ethically defensible? To answer this question, we need to develop an ethical theory of pandering: of privileging the interests and preferences of already unjustly privileged actors because the consequences tend to benefit everyone. Such a theory will need to be ethically pluralistic and weighted along a contextually sensitive continuum, rather than rendered in all-or-nothing terms
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An Embarrassing Second Amendment: A Proud Daughter Belatedly (1) Recognizes and (2) Celebrates Her Father’s Influence on Her Life and Work.
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Education as a civic right: Using schools to challenge the civic empowerment gap
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A Citizen for All Seasons? The Promises and Perils of a Trans-Ideological Vision of Civic Empowerment
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The Civic Achievement Gap
This paper, drawn from a book in progress, summarizes evidence of a civic achievement gap between non-white, poor, and/or immigrant youth, on the one hand, and white, wealthier, and/or native-born youth, on the other. Young people (and adults) in the former group demonstrate consistently lower levels of civic and political knowledge, skills,
positive attitudes, and participation, as compared to their wealthier and white counterparts. As a result, they face serious political disadvantages
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