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Choice and equity in education
- Title
- Choice and equity in education / Geoffrey Walford.
- Author
- Walford, Geoffrey.
- Publication
- London : Cassell, 1994.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | LB1027.9 .W35 1994 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- vii, 182 pages; 22 cm.
- Summary
- Studies the history of choice in education, looking in particular at two schemes in the UK - assisted places and city technology colleges - which were promoted to increase parental choice in schools. As a contrast, the author examines the debate in the United States.
- Series Statement
- Issues in education
- Uniform Title
- Issues in education (London, England)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 170-178) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. The tradition of choice -- 3. Choice in the early 1980s -- 4. A new choice of school? -- 5. Choice for all after 1988? -- 6. Who makes choices? -- 7. Choice for inequity? -- 8. Choice in the USA -- 9. Conclusion.
- ISBN
- 0304327751
- 9780304327751
- 0304327743
- 9780304327744
- LCCN
- 95190733
- OCLC
- ocm31171354
- 31171354
- SCSB-2077042
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library