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Family Choice in Education

1980; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 6; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/0305498800060103

1465-3915

Stephen D. Sugarman,

Diverse Education Studies and Reforms

Should individual families have far greater control over the education of their children than they do at present? Should Britain's primary and secondary school system be bottomed on the principle of family choice? From both Labour and Conservative the traditional response has been decidedly in the negative. It is just possible, however, that the idea of family choice in education could capture the support of the vast majority of ordinary parents. It is that slim, but real, possibility that prompts me, an American, to put forward both the case for choice and a scheme that would implement the idea in Britain in a just manner.