Explores issues about the fairness of the present arrangement barring public support for private religious schools, showing that the arrangement is based on a consensus formed during the 1920s that established a strong conceptual separation between public and private, where religious schooling is relegated to the private sector, and cautioning…

Recent changes in the age and race composition of the population and in educational governance indicate that the public will be more receptive to educational vouchers. These changes, points of agreement and disagreement, and the history of educational vouchers are described. (CJ)

Powerful elites assume they embody rationality and see themselves as husbanders of a set of common values. Any effort to develop an educationally sound policy on the teaching of value issues must be tied to alterations in the existing distribution of power in our society. Several approaches are evaluated. (MT)

Although in the late 1960s and early 1970s, there was a precipitous decline in private school enrollment, this trend has reversed itself. The function of schooling as one of socialization or education is debated. The roles of government and religion in education are discussed. (JN)

Describes development of Milwaukee's Parental Choice Program from an alliance of neoliberal reformers and supporters of inner-city community schools enrolling Black and Latino students. Necessary ingredients included the legacy of independent community schools, frustration of many Black school reformers with Milwaukee Public Schools, and political…