Education by Choice: The Case for Family Control

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Univ of California Press, Apr 28, 2023 - Education - 266 pages
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.
 

Contents

Foreword by James S Coleman xi
1
Your Neighborhood Public
7
The Intellectual History of Choice in Education
18
THE BEST INTEREST OF THE CHILD
33
Amid Perplexity Who Should Decide?
45
A Personal View
71
CHOICE AND THE AMERICAN COVENANT
89
The Issue of Racial Integration
109
DESIGNING THE INSTRUMENTS OF CHOICE
131
School Providers and School Governance
153
Educational Style
167
The Nature of the Subsidy
190
Signs
212
Notes
225
Bibliography
237
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