Book Review:
Paul L. Tractenberg, Some Problems with Family Concern (reviewing by John E. Coons and Stephen D. Sugarman’s Education By Choice: The Case for Family Control), 57 Texas L. Rev. 131 (1978).
 

Abstract:
Education By Choice: The Case for Family Control is the follow-up book to Private Wealth and Public Education by Coons and Sugarman. Their latest work expands the central idea of the former work: suggesting a system for financing public education based upon “family power equalization.” Coons and Sugarman present a logical, moral case for a family choice model of education. The cornerstone of their case is drawn from the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of a Child: “The best interests of the child shall be the guiding principle of those responsible for his education and guidance; that responsibility lies in the first place with his parents.” The authors show how these interests should be determined and what mechanism should be used to advance them.