Michael Adler: Parental Choice and Educational Policy

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Michael Adler : Parental Choice and Educational Policy

Edinburgh University Press, 1989

ISBN 0852245556

1989 Parental Choice and Educational Policy (Edinburgh Education & Society Series). BOOK in very good dark brown cloth hardcover. PAGES clean, flat & tightly bound. DJ has very slight curling to top & bottom edges & horizontal crease to top edge of front cover. Book Extract; from DJ; Legislation introduced in 1981, gave parents inScotland stronger rights than their counterpartsin England and Wales to choose the schools theywished their children to attend. This importantbook analyses the events that led up to theScottish legislation, its implementation byeducation authorities and its impact on parentsand on the admission of children to schools. Itassesses the consequences of parental choice foreducational policy and considers the implica-tions of Scottish experience for legislation,introduced in 1988, which will give parents inEngland and Wales rights similar to those whichparents in Scotland have enjoyed for some time.Based on empirical data derived from an analysisof documentary sources, interviews withofficials, a survey of parents, observation ofappeals and an analysis of school admissionstatistics, the book concludes that the Scottishlegislation has not struck the right balancebetween the concerns of individual parents andthose of education authorities because itthreatens too many important policy goals, andpredicts that a detailed assessment of thebalance struck by the English legislation will leadto similar conclusions.Michael Adier is Senior Lecturer in Social Policyand a Member of the Centre for EducationalSociology at the University of Edinburgh. AlisonFetch is Research Fellow in the Social WorkResearch Centre at the University of Stirling.Jack Tweedie is Assistant Professor of PoliticalScience at the State University of New York,Binghamton. Alison Fetch and Jack Tweediewere formerly Research Fellows at theUniversity of Edinburgh., 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall, Very Good

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