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Peer reviewedReay, Diane; Ball, Stephen J. – Oxford Review of Education, 1997
Explores the ambivalence of many working class parents to the idea of school choice. Maintains that, for many working class parents, school is associated with powerful memories and images of personal failure. Includes excerpts from interviews and data collected from an Economic and Social Research Council study. (MJP)
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Decision Making, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedBall, Stephen J. – Comparative Education, 1998
Outlines a set of generic "problems" emanating from the global economy that constitute the contemporary social, political, and economic conditions for educational and social policy making. Discusses the emergence of ideological and "magical" solutions to these problems, the dissemination of such solutions, and their…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Capitalism, Diffusion (Communication), Education Work Relationship
