Liberalism
Moral and Legal Status of Children
Civic Education
Educational Theory and Policy
Public Service and Policy

• School of Education
• Ethics in Society Program
• Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity
• Center for Social Innovation in the Graduate School of Business

• 2006-08 Stanford University UPS Endowment Award of $39,000 for project on “Equality or Adequacy in Education?”
• 2004-05 Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow at the Center for Human Values, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.
• 2004-05 Visiting Fellowship offered at the Center on Ethics and the Professions, Harvard University (declined).
• 2002-2006  Selected for participation in the Young Faculty Leadership Forum, Harvard University, organized by Prof. Richard Light, JFK School.
• 2002-2004 National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow.
• 2001-2002 Stanford Humanities Center Faculty Fellowship.
• 2001 The Walter J. Gores Award. Stanford University's highest award for teaching.
• 1999 - 2000 The Associated Students of Stanford University Distinguished Teaching Award.
• 2000 Visiting Fellow at the International Center for Jefferson Studies, Charlottesville, VA.
• 1997 - 1998 The Gerald J. Lieberman Fellowship, one of nine fellowships awarded by Stanford University "in broad array of disciplines across all sevel of Stanford's Schools, designed to support the next generation of academic leaders."

Political Science 35Q: Food and Politics
Political Science 133: Ethics and Politics of Public Service
Political Science 236: Theories of Civil Society, Philanthropy, and the Nonprofit Sector

Books

Bridging Liberalism and Multiculturalism in Education, University of Chicago Press, 2002.

Chapters in Edited Volumes

"Toward a Political Science of Citizenship” and chapter 4, “Associational Life and the Nonprofit and Philanthropic Sector,” in Democracy at Risk: How Political Choices Undermine Citizen Participation, and What We Can Do About It, Brookings Institution Press, 2005. (chs. 1 and 4)

“Common Schooling and Educational Choice as a Response to Pluralism,” in School Choice Policies and Outcomes: Philosophical and Empirical Perspectives on Limits to Choice in Liberal Democracies, Walter Feinberg and Christopher Lubienski, eds. (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2007).

“The State’s Obligation to Provide Education: Adequate Education or Equal Education?” under review.

“Philanthropy and its Uneasy Relation to Equality,” in Taking Philanthropy Seriously: Beyond Noble Intentions to Responsible Giving, William Damon and Susan Verducci, eds. (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006): 33-49.

“Minors Within Minorities: A Problem for Liberal Multiculturalists”, in Minorities Within Minorities: Equality, Rights, and Diversity, Jeff Spinner-Halev and Avigail Eisenberg, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2005: 209-26.

"A Liberal Democratic Approach to Language Justice," co-author with David Laitin, in Language Rights and Political Theory, Will Kymlicka and Alan Patten, eds., Oxford University Press, 2003.

"Multicultural Accommodations in Education," in Education and Citizenship in Liberal-Democratic Societies: Teaching for Cosmopolitan Values and Collective Identities, Walter Feinberg and Kevin McDonough, eds., Oxford University Press, 2003.

"Common Schooling and Educational Choice", an entry in A Companion to the Philosophy of Education, Randall Curren, ed., Blackwell Publishers, 2003.

"Testing the Boundaries of Parental Authority Over Education: The Case of Homeschooling," Moral and Political Education, NOMOS XLIII, Stephen Macedo and Yael Tamir, eds., New York: New York University Press, 2002.

Selected Articles

“When Adequate Isn’t: The Retreat From Equity in Educational Law and Policy and Why it Matters”, with William S. Koski.  Forthcoming in Emory Law Review, Vol. 56, No. 3, 2006.

“A Failure of Philanthropy: American Charity Shortchanges the Poor, and Public Policy is Partly to Blame,” Stanford Social Innovation Review, Winter 2005: 24-33.

"The Civic Perils of Homeschooling," Educational Leadership, April 2002: 56-9.
(Translated into Georgian, and appearing in the Georgian Journal of American Studies, 2005).

"Opting Out of Education: Yoder, Mozert, and the Autonomy of Children," Educational Theory, Vol. 52, No. 4, Fall 2002.

“Families and Schools as Compensating Agents in Moral Development for a Multicultural Society,” with Susan Moller Okin, The Journal of Moral Education, Vol. 28, No. 3, 1999.