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Book Review to equip schools with the basic requirements, desks, The Cost of Free Education, Judith O'Neil and tables, chairs, chalk boards. Janet Paterson, Melbourne, F. \V. Cheshire, Man y articles which are essential to modern educa­ tion are not supplied; the schools, through their parents ' associations, are expected to make good the Australian s are fond of saying that State education deficiencies with the help of State subsidies. A great is free in this country. Indeed, the claim is made in valu e is placed on self-help, but no account is taken all sincerity by migration officers overseas. It comes of the limits to self-help in some districts. Schools in as a shock to the new arrival to find that education low-income districts are often unable to raise the is far from free. The ideal of free public education funds to attract matching State subsidies and so the ha s been "eroded by inequalities, inconsistencies and ga p between them and the best becomes even greater. anomalies" . This book shows how education in the Th e financial difficulties of parents contribute directly free State schools has become an expensive business t o the increasing inequality of the educational http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian Journal of Social Work Taylor & Francis

Book Review

Australian Journal of Social Work , Volume 22 (1): 1 – Mar 1, 1969
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to equip schools with the basic requirements, desks, The Cost of Free Education, Judith O'Neil and tables, chairs, chalk boards. Janet Paterson, Melbourne, F. \V. Cheshire, Man y articles which are essential to modern educa­ tion are not supplied; the schools, through their parents ' associations, are expected to make good the Australian s are fond of saying that State education deficiencies with the help of State subsidies. A great is free in this country. Indeed, the claim is...
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to equip schools with the basic requirements, desks, The Cost of Free Education, Judith O'Neil and tables, chairs, chalk boards. Janet Paterson, Melbourne, F. \V. Cheshire, Man y articles which are essential to modern educa­ tion are not supplied; the schools, through their parents ' associations, are expected to make good the Australian s are fond of saying that State education deficiencies with the help of State subsidies. A great is free in this country. Indeed, the claim is made in valu e is placed on self-help, but no account is taken all sincerity by migration officers overseas. It comes of the limits to self-help in some districts. Schools in as a shock to the new arrival to find that education low-income districts are often unable to raise the is far from free. The ideal of free public education funds to attract matching State subsidies and so the ha s been "eroded by inequalities, inconsistencies and ga p between them and the best becomes even greater. anomalies" . This book shows how education in the Th e financial difficulties of parents contribute directly free State schools has become an expensive business t o the increasing inequality of the educational

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Published: Mar 1, 1969

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