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Choice and selection are now cornerstones of education policies wherever these have been shaped by market economics. Now, as never before, schools can face uncertain futures, because their survival is determined by external factors such as admission policies and parental preferences. Because of the link between schooling, and housing and other public sector services, the implications of increasing choice extends well beyond education. Schools, Markets and Choice Policies brings together the findings of the most comprehensive research ever conducted into choice in secondary education, and provides in-depth context, analysis and discussion. In assessing the impact of choice policies not only upon the education system itself, but also upon wider society, it provides valuable insights into economic and social segregation. A groundbreaking contribution to the debate on the role of choice and market economies in education, this book is essential reading for anyone involved in determining or implementing education policy at all levels.

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Product Description: A series of major reforms during the 1980s and 1990s have led to the transformation of the education system in England and Wales. The system is now based on market principles in schooling resources. Parents have the opportunity to state a preference for the school that they would like their children to attend...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Hong Kong is a society that appears to be constructed almost entirely of concrete, steel and glass at first glance, but underneath is a constant whirling pageant of Chinese social and spiritual life. From its spectacular harborside commercial skylines and immense shopping plazas to its back-street bazaars, junk-fleets and Chinese temples, it is an exotic and sometimes bizarre partnership of past and future, East and West, hard-driving free enterprise and pure fun...read more

Product Description: A guide to China which describes not only its grand cultural treasures and relics but also the simplicity, generosity and hospitality of ordinary Chinese people. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Immense, vibrant and infinitely diverse, India has always fascinated travelers with its ancient and complex culture, dazzling contrasts, and frequently breathtaking physical beauty. A nation deeply rooted in the past, India is part pure spectacle, part human pageant, with an almost bewildering profusion of different races, languages, and customs...read more

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