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School Wars: The Battle for Britain’s Education

Changing English · 2012 · 61 citations · 8 references

Concepts

Public AffairsEducation PolicyState Education PolicyHistory Of EducationState Obligations In EducationResistance To SchoolingState Education MandatesState Education Standards

Abstract

by Melissa Benn, London and York, Verso, 2011, 256 pp., £12.99 (paperback), ISBN 978 1 84467 736 8 Why is it that, in Britain today, state education fails to inspire the kind of automatic allegianc...

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Thomas Koinzer · Pedocs (German Institute for International Educational Research) · 2011 · 221 citations · Full text

Public Affairs, Education Policy, Instruction +4