As a matter of public policy, education should move toward institutional pluralism that takes account of group needs and identities within a larger American culture. We must lay to rest the bugbear that a diverse system is necessarily a corrosively segregated and unequal system. (Author/IRT)

Many private schools accepting public and private voucher funding use instructional materials that transmit profoundly conservative values. Content of texts produced by A Beka Books and Bob Jones University Press is virtually identical to materials produced and disseminated by the Christian Right and other conservative groups. (Contains 42…