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"The air was electric at California's Capitol. At a rally on the building steps, one speaker after another railed against a new bill to regulate parents' vaccination choices. If it passed, parents could no longer skirt California's daycare and school vaccine requirements by claiming religious or philosophical objections to vaccines. In response to attempts to eliminate these nonmedical exemptions (NMEs), Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shouted to the crowd that "parents know best" when it comes to their children's health. Bob Sears, the pediatrician author of best-seller The Vaccine Book, called on parents to "Get out there and fight for your rights!" Protestors, many of them dressed in red shirts, chanted, "My Child, My Choice." Signs amplified their message: "Force my veggies, not vaccines" and "Protect the Children, Not Big Pharma.""--

Introduction -- Part I: Inclusion, Justice, and Education -- Education, Inclusion, and Democratic Citizenship: Tagore on Human Flourishing -- The "Rights" Road to Inclusion: Disability Rights, Care, and Ableism -- Part II: Education Rights and Reasonable Pluralism -- The Right to Education -- Pluralism, Diversity, and Choice: Problems with School Vouchers -- Part III: Opportunity and Inclusion in Education -- Interculturality, Justice and Inclusion: Key Educational Values for a Pluralist Society -- The Concept of Opportunity and the Ideal of Equality of Educational Opportunity -- Part IV: Race, Inclusion, and Education -- Institutional Racism and the Ethics of Inclusion: What does Justice Require to Transform Institutions of Higher Education? -- Janus-Faced Affirmative Action: Restorative Justice and the Transition to a Just Society -- Three Responses to Racism: Therapy, Punishment, and Education -- Part V: Civility, Incivility and Civic learning -- Making Space for Incivility -- Moral Capital, Civic Grace, and the Role of Education.-Part VI Justice in University Admissions -- "Merit" in University Admissions -- An Alternative to "Merit" in University Admissions -- Collective Merit in University Admissions -- [Commentary on Cudd, title TBD] -- Collective Merit as an Alternative to Individual Merit in University Admissions?

Michigan's introduction of mandatory counseling for nonmedical exemptions was associated with decreased nonmedical exemption rates. However, while each of Michigan's 45 local health departments made its own decisions about how to conduct immunization counseling, differences in the burdensomeness of counseling programs was not associated with greater or lesser changes in exemption rates. Data from a survey of Michigan local health departments (online, October 2015), epidemiological data from Michigan's Department of Health and Human Services (online, various dates), and social and economic data from the American Community Survey (online, various dates) were used in models explaining change in county-level nonmedical exemption rates. Counties that first required an education session after the December 2014 rule change had a 30% greater reduction in their nonmedical exemption rates for 2015 than did counties that already required education sessions. Michigan's experience with vaccination waiver education suggests that imposing burdens on nonmedical waiver applicants decreases nonmedical waiver rates. It also indicates there may be a burden threshold beyond which incremental increases in inconvenience do not further reduce exemption rates. Thus, in a context of hyper-politicization and austerity, health departments may be wise to avoid implementing additionally burdensome processes that are politically or economically expensive to administer.