OVERVIEW
Educators are often motivated by an admirable but frankly rather vague commitment to “social justice.” They are passionate about achieving social justice both through their own efforts—say, by helping traditionally underserved students gain the academic skills needed to gain admission to college, or by revising discipline policies that disproportionately punish black boys—and by teaching their students to fight for social justice on their own behalves. But what “social justice” means in general, and how it applies to any particular educational context, is at best ill-defined...