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Foreword by Jonas F. Soltis
"A useful synthesis for instructors who teach about the American educational system in a wide range of sociology courses and about the meaning of inequality in American society."
–Contemporary Sociology
The principle of equal educational opportunity has been central to the discourse about justice in public education throughout the latter half of the 20th century. Over the last several decades, however, it has been eviscerated by the political right and has fallen into disrepute with postmodernists and the political left. Howe provides a vigorous defense of the "participatory interpretation" of equal educational opportunity, and employs it to critically evaluate several contemporary policy domains.
