1. Reconfigured American Education?
Has the Supreme Court
Reconfigured American Education?
Charles L. Glenn
Argues that the dissent of the Supreme Court’s decision in Zelman v. Simmons-Harris is an immediate antidote to the public schools secularist philosophy
Paul E. Peterson
While welcoming the Zelman v. Simmons-Harris decision, contends the barricades against widespread use of vouchers in religious schools will postpone lasting effects

2. The Supreme Court’s Decision
Zelman v. Simmons-Harris
Dealt with Ohio’s Pilot Project Scholarship program
Supreme Court
found (5-4) that the program does not offend the establishment clause
Is the government’s choice to pay for religious indoctrination constitutionally permissible?

3. Fanatical Secularism by Charles Glenn
Board of Education v. Allen (1968)
The only way to avoid religious warfare…
How can a right be a right if it is unable to be exercised?
Every school is “indoctrinating”
The child is not a mere creature of the state

4. Emancipating the Mind Understand what teachers consider their mission
Plato’s Parable of the Cave
“Education is an enterprise, more perhaps than any save religion, that is shaped by how we choose to think about it”
Glenn’s conclusion

5. Victory for Vouchers? By Paul Peterson
The history of vouchers
Public money going to extremists?
Vouchers are a civil-rights issue according to the President
The decision does nothing to lift the barricades to establish new voucher programs

6. Will Vouchers get a chance?
Voucher’s lack of support
No change comes quickly to education in America
“If the voucher system saddle private schools with the same regulatory regime that now hampers the public education system, then school choice will prove only to be an aggravation of the education crisis.”