Feminist Theory and Educational Policy: How Gender Has Been “Involved” in Family School Choice Debates

Signs ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 1633-1658 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Stambach ◽  
Miriam David
Keyword(s):  
School Choice ◽  
Educational Policy ◽  
Feminist Theory

scholarly journals Education Policy as Proto-fascism: The Aesthetics of Racial Neo-liberalism

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Webb ◽  
Kalervo Gulson
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
School Choice ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Educational Policy ◽  
Technology Education ◽  
Residential Schools ◽  
School Segregation ◽  
Contemporary Technology

Education Policy as Proto-fascism: The Aesthetics of Racial Neo-liberalismWe argue that neo-liberal educational policy has emerged as a proto-fascist governmentality. This contemporary technology relies on State racisms and racial orderings manifested from earlier liberal and neo-liberal practices of biopower. As a proto-fascist technology, education policy, and school choice policies in particular, operate within a racial aesthetics that connects ultra-nationalisms with microfascisms of racialized bodies. We discuss historical examples of liberal school segregation and residential schools in relation to contemporary examples of chartered ethnic-identity schools to illustrate the complexities of proto-fascist education policy.

Religion, Privatization, and American Educational Policy

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Bordelon
Keyword(s):  
School Choice ◽  
Educational Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Orthodox Jews ◽  
Parochial Schools ◽  
United States Constitution ◽  
Federal Funds ◽  
Alternative Means ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Government

This chapter provides a brief history of the religious school choice lobby. The chapter explains how religionists, composed mostly of Catholics, Orthodox Jews, and evangelical Christians, came to advocate for the use of government funds for parochial schools. Leo Pfeffer and the American Jewish Congress opposed the use of federal funds for parochial schools, and by the late 1970s their advocacy had swayed the courts to prevent all but paltry sums of federal funds from going to private religious schools. This led school choice advocates to find alternative means of funding, namely tax credits and vouchers that aren’t regulated by the government. Given the growing divisions and tensions surrounding educational policy and religious constituents, we need to examine this history so we can better understand how to move forward. The chapter concludes with questions for educational policymakers concerning how the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution should inform government policy surrounding religion and education.

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