Dedication Acknowledgements Table of Contents Prologue Introduction: Just Look Inside This Book and You Will See. Section One--Balance? Chapter 1: About Teeter-Totters and Educational Choice The History of US Education Is its Topography Parents and Caregivers A Small Piece of Democracy Chapter 2: The Common Good The Rule of Law About Free Market Education About-Face in the Marketplace Chapter 3: The Best Interests of. Informal and Formal Education Who Knows Better What Are Best Interests? Closely-Held Beliefs Know Best Interests Networks Know Best Interests Partisanship Knows Best Interests US Education Knows Best Interests Following a Long Arc to Best Interests Disrupting the Arc It''s Not Education, It''s Shopping! Buying Best Interests: Boutique-Ideology Chapter 4: Partisanship The Way Things Were Is the Way They''re Supposed to Be When Enough Is Enough The Fly in the Ointment for Partisanship: Learning Where Learning Thrives Partisanship Can''t Function Repairing Function: One-Faith Education Repairing Function: Push-Back Against the Arc The CRT Straw Man Adult-Centric Education Partisans Recoil For Partisans, the Present Is Downright Scary Certainty About What There Is to Fear Partisans Can See Clearly Now Chapter 5: I See These Threats Looking at Me Intellectual Autonomy Compelling State Interest The Outside-World Partisanship Accommodations Down a Fear-Filled Rabbit Hole To Restore Partisanship in US Education Chapter 6: Revolt of the Likeminded No Likeminded Parent Left Behind Limiting the Universe of Discourse Rejecting How to Think and the Common Good The Art of the Straw Man Orthodoxy Trumps Majority Rule Section Two-- Deus Ex Machina in the Script for Partisanship Chapter 7: Preemptive Censorship Oh Where, Oh Where Has Thinking Gone? Discriminatory Thinking, Anyone? What If Preemption Doesn''t Work? Chapter 8: Anarchic Dissent Anarchic Dissent Is as Partisanship Does The Ideological Foundation of Anarchic Dissent Public Dissonance Public Dissonance on Behalf of Parental Rights Anarchic Dissent: Ideological "Demo-Day" A Six-Pound Partisan Sledge Hammer A Twelve-Pound Partisan Sledge Hammer The Granddaddy of All Partisan Sledge Hammers The Anarchic Dissonance of "Liberty" Saving Public Education by Destroying It Chapter 9: Rights and US Education The Exclusive Rights of Partisanship The Right to Perpetual Winning Standardized Testing: Brass Knuckles in Partisan Boxing Gloves The Right to Determine Losers The Right to Defund Losers The Right to What-to-Think The Right to Dumb-Down Learning A Circular Bill of Rights: Partisanship''s Gift to Education Section Three--The Foes of Traditional Public Education Chapter 10: Partisan Education More to Ideology than Meets the Eye Partisan Education: A Transactional Relationship Transactional Relationships Are Exclusionary A Pox on the House of Intellectual Autonomy The Ethos of Partisan Education Partisan Education: What Is Right and What Is True Orthodoxy: Limitless or Limited? Weaponizing Partisan Education A Retreat from Conscience Commitment to Preemption Retreating Is "Winning" Money: The Partisanship Weapon for Choice Just How Much Does All This Cost? Section Four--Religion, Courts, the Feds, and Public School Chapter 11: Evolution--The Faithful Sound the Alarm Faithful Partisanship, Evolution, and Learning What Science Says Alarming Court Decisions Whose Faith for Public Education? Putting Faith in the Courts Chapter 12: Schools and Rights--Burdens, Exposure, and Compulsory Conduct A Two-Prong Test When Public Education Meets the US Constitution The US Supreme Court and US Education The First Amendment Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier Board of Education v. Pico The Third Amendment The Fourteenth Amendment Chapter 13: To Reform or Not to Reform? The Destination Is Reform. Are We There Yet? I''m Free to Be Me and You''re Free to Be Me Partisans Are the public Partisan Things Are Not Public Things When Reform Is Not Partisan The Amish and Reform In the Aftermath of Yoder Hasidic Communities and Reform In the Aftermath of Yeshiva Education The Compelling Interests of Partisanship SEL: A Fear-Inducing Bogeyman The Unheralded Resource for Partisanship A Comeuppance for Partisanship Section Five--US Education: Journey or Destination? Chapter 14: The Compass Rose: Purpose The Journey of Constitutional Democracy The Journey of Civic Respect The Journey of Citizenship Education The Effects of Citizenship Education Necessary Neutrality Balance-as-Equity The Journey of Open Futures The Journey of "We" in the Common Good Chapter 15: To Defend Public Education--Good Dissent Good Dissent and Public Things The Role of Good Dissent Is the Role of Public Education Section Six--Across the Great Divide Chapter 16: The Chasm "Self" Government.or.Self-Government Static-Balance.

or.Precarious-Balance Universal Singularity.or.Government that Works Chapter 17: Critical Questions Question #1: Is Social Reality Fixed or Unfixed? Question #2: Is Liberty Constraint or Coercion? Constraint and Coercion in Partisan Education Constraint and Coercion in Traditional Public Education Question #3: Does Education Assume a Value of Justice? Epilogue.