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A Call to Privatize |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Pauline Eby |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 5/1/1995 |
| Size: 2,290 Words, 15,136 Characters |
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SEPARATING SCHOOL AND STATE
How to Liberate America's Families
Sheldon Richman
Fairfax, Va.: Future of Freedom Foundation, 1994
128 pp., $22.95 cloth
To anyone who thinks that charter schools and tuition vouchers are among the better options for improving America's public education system, Sheldon Richman's proposals in Separating School and State: How to Liberate America's Families may come as a shock. For Richman, the concept of public education ("government schools," as he calls them) itself is the problem. Given this view, the "future of education, and of America as a free society, depends on the liberation of the American family from the grip of the public school."
According to Richman, past and present attempts at reforming education have fallen short b...
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...acerbated problems rather than helped. The secretary of the Department of Education, Richard Riley, and his predecessors William Bennett and Lamar Alexander, are all on record as favoring abolishing the Department of Education. This is certainly a start in the direction that Richman is indicating and, given this general atmosphere, Richman should be guaranteed at least a receptive audience. vbcrlf
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