Randall Curren is Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Education at the University of Rochester, USA.

Introduction; PART I: FUNDAMENTAL QUESTIONS; 1. Education for a Challenging World; 2. Civic Learning for the 21st Century: Disentangling the "Thin" and "Thick" Elements of Civic Identity to Support Civic Education; 3. Enabling Everyone to Live Well; 4. Mind, Reason, and Knowledge; 5. Understanding as an Educational Objective; 6. Values and Evidence in Educational Decision-Making; 7. How Should Evidence Inform Educational Policy?; 8. Who Should Make Decisions About Children's Education?; 9. Theorizing Educational Justice; PART II: VIRTUES OF MIND AND CHARACTER; 10. Cultivating Intellectual Virtues; 11. Intellectual Character Education: Some Lessons from Vice Epistemology; 12. The Formation of Expertise; 13. Stoic Lessons for an Uncertain Future; 14. Character Education; PART III: EDUCATION AND JUSTICE; 15. Equal Educational Opportunity: What Should It Mean?; 16. Non-Preparatory Dimensions of Educational Justice; 17. Child Work and Education, a Global Perspective; 18. Educational Problems of Mass Migration; 19. The Political Ethics of Bilingual Education; 20. Global Democratic Educational Justice; 21. Neoliberalism and Education; 22. Racial Domination in Education; 23. The Costs of Upward Mobility; 24. Who Should Pay for Higher Education? An Educational Aims Perspective; 25. Toward a Post-Pandemic Higher Education System; PART IV: EDUCATIONAL PRACTICES; 26. Free Speech and Education; 27. Democratic Education and the Controversy over Controversial Issues; 28. College Teaching, Indoctrination, and Trust; 29. Climate, Science, and Sustainability Education; 30. Is 'Sex Education' an Intelligible Concept?; 31. Racial Identity Formation and Antiracist Education; 32. Discipline and Punishment in Schools; 33. Ability and Ability Grouping; 34. Malignant Accountability, False Promises, and the Future of Education; 35. Burnout, Demoralization, and Racialized Failures to Recognize Teachers as Moral Subjects