Even today, many still have an ingr

Even today, many still have an ingrained feeling that public agencies should give everyone the same kind of service, because there is one right way to do things-to run a school, to hand out welfare, or to run an army. One reason educational choice has not spread faster, says education professor Mary Anne Raywid, “is that it challenges one of education’s most deep-seated and broadly pursued assumptions: that there must be a right answer to questions of educational practice, and that all other answers can thus only be inferior.”