Government, Schools and the Law

ISBN-13: 9780415036580 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 234 str.

Paul Meredith

Opis

In recent years, education has become the scene of some of the government's most radical reforms. The principles of freedom of choice, accountability and family values all came into play in the drafting of the Great Education Reform Act of 1988. As the Act has been implemented, it has brought to the surface a whole range of tensions between central and local government and between individual interests and the interest of the community. This book focuses on five areas of education in which the legal debate is complex and the implications are particularly wide-ranging for ordinary parents and children: school choice, the secular curriculum, expenditure constraints and their effects on educational provision, falling roles and opting out. It looks both at the legislation in these areas and at specific challenges in the courts and a final chapter sets the issues in their political context.

Recenzje

`... a very useful and informative book ... It is very accessible, written with great clarity and a pleasure to read.' - J Education Policy 1994 Vol 9 No 1

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. Choice of School 3. Legal Control Over the Contents of the Secular Curriculum 4. Expenditure Constraints and the legal Sufficiency of Education 5. Falling Rolls and the Reorganisation of Schools 6. Grant-Maintained Schools - A Further Dimension of Reorganisation 7. Evaluation and Outlook Notes Index

O autorze

Meredith, Paul