August 4, 2006

The Ambiguity of 'Social Justice'

To the Editor:

The decision by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education to drop controversial language about social justice from its accrediting standards was prompted in part by a concern that the term "social justice" is so elastic that it could be used to discriminate against individuals who fail to subscribe to a given institution's interpretation of the phrase ("Accreditor of Education Schools Drops Controversial 'Social Justice' Language," The Chronicle, June

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