Debra Satz. Photo by L.A. Cicero
The Bowen H. McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society has received a $500,000 grant to focus on understanding the relationship between the ideals of equality and the provision of public education.
Researchers will examine school financing, admissions practices and the local, state and national distribution of educational responsibility to identify hurdles to achieving equality in school systems across the country.
“Education is one of the most powerful levers a society has for shaping its future citizens,” said DEBRA SATZ, the center’s director. “While the American education system has a lot to be proud of, many children receive a far more inferior education than their peers. The center plans to bring ideas from moral and political philosophy – ideas like equality of opportunity, sufficiency and responsibility – to bear on the questions of educational financing and organization.”
The three-year project will bring together Stanford scholars in the humanities, social sciences, education and law, along with two postdoctoral fellows. The grant is funded by the Spencer Foundation.
