Educational Goods: Values, Evidence, and Decision-Making
Harry Brighouse, Helen F. Ladd, Susanna Loeb, and Adam Swift
Abstract
Educational Goods advances a theory of how to combine values and evidence in decision-making about education. The book identifies three kinds of value that must be balanced against each other: a theory of the kind of educational outcomes schools should aim at; a theory of how educational opportunities should be distributed; and independent values that should be considered when they conflict with the first two kinds of value. The evidence that decision-makers should seek out and consider is that which bears on how these values will be realized through the choices they make, and the book articul ... More
Educational Goods advances a theory of how to combine values and evidence in decision-making about education. The book identifies three kinds of value that must be balanced against each other: a theory of the kind of educational outcomes schools should aim at; a theory of how educational opportunities should be distributed; and independent values that should be considered when they conflict with the first two kinds of value. The evidence that decision-makers should seek out and consider is that which bears on how these values will be realized through the choices they make, and the book articulates a distinctive method for thinking about the evidence in the light of the values. The method is illustrated through consideration of 3 central policy issues: school financing, school accountability systems, and school choice mechanisms
Keywords:
Educational goods,
Educational equity,
school choice,
school accountability,
school financing,
education policy,
childhood goods,
educational adequacy,
childhood goods
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2017 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780226514031 |
| Published to Chicago Scholarship Online: May 2018 |
DOI:10.7208/chicago/9780226514208.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Harry Brighouse, author
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Helen F. Ladd, author
Duke University
Susanna Loeb, author
Stanford University
Adam Swift, author
University of Warwick
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