Jason M. Bedrick is director of policy for EdChoice and an adjunct scholar with the Cato Institute. He previously served as a legislator in the New Hampshire House of Representatives and was an education policy research fellow at the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy. Jay P. Greene is Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas. His current areas of research interest include school choice, culturally enriching field trips, and the effect of schools on non-cognitive and civic values. Matthew H. Lee is Distinguished Doctoral Fellow and Senior Research Assistant in the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas. Previously, he was a high school history teacher at a charter school in Massachusetts.
Preface
Introduction
Part One - Philosophical Perspectives on Religious Liberty in Education
1. In Defense of Yeshiva Autonomy by Kevin Vallier
2. Educational Pluralism: Distinctive Schools and Academic Accountability by
Ashley Berner
3. Pork Eating is Not a Reasonable Way of Life: Yeshiva Education vs. Liberal
Educational Theory by Rita Koganzon
Part Two - Religious Liberty and Education Law
4. State Regulation of Curriculum in Private Religious Schools: A
Constitutional Analysis by Aaron Saiger
5. The Yeshiva Case: A Legal Path Forward by Howard Slugh and Devorah Goldman
6. Challenges to Educational Freedom in Europe by Charles L. Glenn
Part Three - Implications for Different Communities
7. "Substantial Equivalency": Implications for the Jewish Community by Avi
Schick
8. The Philosophical Futility of "Substantial Equivalency" in the Interplay of
Religious and Public Education: A Christian School Perspective by Jay
Ferguson
9. Between Tradition and Regulation: What Can Muslim Education Offer the West?
by Jibran Khan
10. An Impossible (and Impermissible) Dream: Equivalency in Homeschools by
Michael P. Donnelly
Part Four - Charting a Path Forward
11. Conclusion: Rabbi Nehorai Gets the Last Word by Ira Stoll
About the Contributors
