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"Crocker's book is both a patient attempt to understand how this strange compromise arose and a dogged argument that it is high time to do away with it. As a former associate deputy minister of education in Newfoundland, Crocker is quite familiar with the secularization of his own province's education system in the late 1990s. In some ways, Religion and Schooling in Canada reads like an expansion of his own notes from that time. Its rigorously, even oppressively detailed historical portions convey the happenstance creation of public support for religious schools in much of the country.--Michael Ledger-Lomas ""Literary Review of Canada"" This book is a much-needed new resource about an issue immediately important to some, and ultimately important to all of us. The range of the book, from the historic to the contemporary, is helpful, the scholarship is careful and thorough, and the writing is clear. Separate school education is about more than education. It is also about citizenship, individual rights, and maintaining 'the public' in a democracy. Religion and Schooling in Canada: The Long Road to Separation of Church and State will appeal to interested citizen-agents as well as to commentators and scholars.--David King, former Alberta minister of Education"

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Recipient of the CEA/Whitworth Award for contributions to educational research, Robert Crocker is Professor Emeritus at Memorial University. He was Associate Deputy Minister of Education in Newfoundland, where he was involved in negotiations leading to the constitutional amendment ending religious control of education in that province. He also served as a member of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and as President of the Canadian Educational Researchers' Association.

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