This volume explores five curriculum arenas: science and human evolution; textbook selection; sexuality instruction; character development; and outcome-based education. Contents: Introduction / James T. Sears -- Pt. I. Foundations for Conversations. 1. History, Religion, and Schooling: A Context for Conversation / James C. Carper. 2. Encounters in Law, Philosophy, Religion, and Education -- Commentary / Richard John Neuhaus -- Commentary / Martin E. Marty -- Commentary / Maxine Greene -- Commentary / George Marsden -- Commentary / Michael W. McConnell. 3. Crossing Boundaries and Becoming the Other: Voices Across Borders / James T. Sears. 4. Dialogue, Religion, and Tolerance: How to Talk to People Who Are Wrong About (Almost) Everything / Kenneth A. Strike -- Pt. II. Textbooks: Whose Stories are to be Told? 5. Religion and the Textbooks / Gilbert T. Sewall. 6. It's Not About the Books: Textbook Controversies and the Need for Uncertain Conversations / J. Dan Marshall and Joe Kincheloe -- Community Dialogue: Questing for Certainty and Uncertainty: The Role of Teacher and Text / Carolyn Murphy, James T. Sears and Gary Burgess [et al. ] -- Suggested Additional Readings on Textbooks / Elaine Lindsey and James T. Sears -- Pt. III. Values in the Public Schools: What and Whose Values Should be Taught? 7. Why a Functional Definition of Religion Is Necessary If Justice Is to Be Achieved in Public Education / Richard A. Baer, Jr. 8. Moral Education as a Form of Life / Nel Noddings -- Community Dialogue: Is There a Common Moral Framework That Schools Can Embrace? / Carolyn Murphy, James T. Sears and Bob Shearer [et al. ] -- Suggested Additional Readings on Values / Elaine Lindsey and James T. Sears -- Pt. IV. Sexuality Education: What Does Teaching Sexual Responsibility Mean? 9. Sex Education Should Exclusively Endorse Abstinence as the Only Effective Prevention of the Unacceptable Risks of Nonmarital Sexual Relations / George A. Rekers and Richard C. Hohn. 10. Teaching and Researching Sexualities in a Socially Responsible Manner / James T. Sears -- Community Dialogue: Sexual Behaviors and Sexual Cultures / Carolyn Murphy, Bob Shearer and Gary Burgess [et al. ] -- Suggested Additional Readings on Sexuality Education / Elaine Lindsey and James T. Sears -- Pt. V. Outcome-Based Education: Who Should Set the Standards? 11. The Fundamentalist Right, the "New Paradigm," and Outcome-Based Education / Dennis Carlson. 12. Outcome-Based Education: Can It Be Redeemed? / Charles L. Glenn -- Community Dialogue: A Matter of Fairness and Equity / Carolyn Murphy, James T. Sears and Bob Shearer [et al. ] -- Suggested Additional Readings on Outcome-Based Education / Elaine Lindsey and James T. Sears -- Pt. VI. Science: Who and What are we? 13. The Problem of Dogmatism in Science Education / Nancy W. Brickhouse and William J. Letts IV. 14. The Two Controversies over Evolution / Phillip E. Johnson -- Community Dialogue: From Six Days to 4. 6 Billion Years / Carolyn Murphy, James T. Sears and Bob Shearer [et al. ] -- Suggested Additional Readings on Science / Elaine Lindsey and James T. Sears -- Pt. VII. A Concluding Conversation Among Education Scholars / James T. Sears, Richard Baer and Paul S. ].