Section 3: Equality of Opportunity and Education

This section summarizes some of the key debates around the application of conceptions of equality of opportunity to educational institutions and educational policy.

These debates sometimes take place at a less abstract level and concern special problems of applying equality of opportunity to schooling, and those that arise when negotiating other values that will likely or inevitably conflict with equality of opportunity.

• Equality and Adequacy
• Equality of Opportunity for Citizenship
• Equality of Opportunity and the Family
• Private School and School Choice
• Groups and Individuals
• Disability
• Higher Education