Behind the Headline: Vouching for Tolerance at Religious Schools

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Wall Street Journal | July 12, 2013

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Education Next |Summer 2007

President Obama (and many liberals) seem to believe that religious schools undermine social cohesion. In an in this morning”s Wall Street Journal, Jay Greene reviews the social science evidence that finds that private school students, including religious school students, are more tolerant than public school students. The evidence comes from a study by Patrick Wolf that was published in Education Next.

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