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He reviewed the arguments for faith schools: higher academic standards, including in disadvantaged communities, although the NFER research qualifies this evidence; diversity; choice: the issue is rather what are the aims we seek to promote?; ethos/value system; equality of treatment, although this could easily be reversed and lead to the abolition of all faith schools; parents v.
" Whilst there is an obvious need for systematic research into the spiritual, moral and intellectual cultures of faith-based schools and their educational and social outcomes, such research will need to be impartial, comprehensive and sensitive to the pluralist range of traditions and faith communities.
They argue that these objections (i) divisiveness; ii) inadequacy with respect to the development of autonomy; iii) the common school as a preferable educational environment; iv) the need to limit parental rights; v) the danger of extremism and vi) the unjustifiability of public funding) are not decisive, especially when considered in relation to a number of arguments in favour of faith schools.
Through the Looking Glass: Religion, Identity and Citizenship in Plural Culture: The Role of Faith Schools, Lynndy Levin (Institute of Education, London) Lynndy Levin (Jewish) argued that "as faith schools, the battle is ours to fight, both separately and coUectively, but our aim is probably the same: to prevent the erosion of our faith and ethnicity by the liberal democratic state.