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Article: The Reagan revolution in Sweden: a little competition comes to the schools.(Book review)
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- June 22, 2006
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The Market Comes to Education in Sweden: An Evaluation of Sweden's Surprising School Reforms.
By Anders Bjorklund, Melissa A. Clark, Per-Anders Edin, Peter Fredriksson, and Alan B. Krueger.
Russell Sage Foundation, 2005, $27.50; 157 pages.
It will undoubtedly be a surprise to many, as it was to me, that Sweden, a country with one of the most developed systems of government-provided social services, was swept up in the Reagan revolution. As the first words of this book remind us, "Sweden has long been known for its pursuit of equality--both equality of opportunity and equality of outcome." But as happened to Americans in the 1980s, the Swedes ...