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Peer reviewedFowler, Frances C. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1992
Develops a theoretical argument for regulating school choice, using pluralistic concepts. Applies this argument to documentary and interview data concerning a 30-year-old French school choice policy. Because France and the United States have the greatest economic inequalities among Western democracies, the French experience with choice is…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedFowler, Frances C. – Educational Policy, 1992
In 1959, France passed the Debre Act, inaugurating massive subsidies for private education by contracting secular instruction to private schools signing contracts. The policy has successfully provided parents with school choice without increasing social stratification but has led to some financial and political accountability problems. Choice…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Fowler, Frances C. – 1991
Those aspects of the French educational policy pertinent to the controlled choice issue in the United States are examined in this paper. A purpose is to overcome both the theoretical and empirical weaknesses of the controlled choice literature. First, arguments for the regulation of choice policies are related to the "neo-pluralistic"…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid
Fowler, Frances C. – 1991
The assumption that educational freedom is solely defined by freedom to choose a school is challenged in this paper. Based on the concept of a "system" of interdependent freedoms, a case study of the French school choice program adopted in 1959 is presented. Methodology involved longitudinal documentary analysis of primary sources…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Access to Education, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Fowler, Frances C. – 1990
Information about the French policy of government aid to private schools is presented in this report to promote understanding in the United States of the pluralist dilemma raised by the private school aid issue. An historical longitudinal policy evaluation involved document analysis and interviews with 16 French policy actors. The French policy is…
Descriptors: Constitutional Law, Cultural Pluralism, Democracy, Democratic Values
Download full textFowler, Frances C. – 1992
In France, the National Education Federation (Federation d'Education Nationale (FEN)) and its major constituent union, the National Union of Elementary and Middle School Teachers (Syndicat National des Instituteurs et des Professeurs d'Enseignment General de College (SNI-PEGC)), are examples of "intelligent trade unions," i.e., unions…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Educational Environment, Educational History, Educational Policy
