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The 1988 Education Reform Act in England set in motion a series of far-reaching changes to English education policy with a firm and clearly articulated objective: to recast the education system by implementing centrally-controlled policy structures as the catalysts for improvements in educational services. The Thatcher Government began, and the Major Government continued, an overhaul of the education system that promoted at its very core the idea that educators, including those in government, ought to be accountable for the performance of pupils, and that parents ought to choose schools with this foremost in their minds.
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Finkelstein, N.D. (2000). Transparency in Education Policy. In: Finkelstein, N.D. (eds) Transparency in Public Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333977583_3
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