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Why stop at bus passes, make the rich pay for public education

November 3, 2008 – 9:47 pm

Well, I’m being devil’s advocate to some extent but don’t the arguments being made against free school travel also apply to school education?
In a system that is starved of funds especially in lower socio-economic areas, wouldn’t it be fairer to impose a modest fee on well-off parents who send their kids to places like [...]

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School performance does make a difference, study

October 9, 2008 – 7:15 am

Yeah, I know, ‘no kidding’ but it’s good to see some evidence:
These results provide some evidence in favour of the proposition that socioeconomic
status does not determine a school’s destiny. Using the data available, there appears to
be considerable variation between schools of a similar socioeconomic status. ‘Like
schools’ (on the socioeconomic dimension) do not invariably produce ‘like [...]

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