"It is rare in the digital age for a volume of previously published essays to merit consideration by academic libraries. In this instance, however, Graces collection is a blessing. Grace is a long-time leader in the field of Catholic education, known for his intellectually honest and penetrating attempts to reconcile reasoned educational research with religious faith. This book brings together journal articles with harder-to-find book chapters that span his career. As a whole, the collection engages many key debates and tensions in the relationship between public education and religion: leadership, mission, pedagogy, high-stakes testing, market-based school reform, civic engagement, and social justice. Though much of the writing focuses on Catholic education in the UK, as a whole, this book is wide ranging and includes transnational and comparative analysis. Written in accessible prose with limited, but sufficient, footnotes, this book is indispensable for scholars and students in the US who study the relationship between religious education and the secular world." --B. Justice, Rutgers University, CHOICE, October 2016 Vol. 54 No. 2
