ABSTRACT
Partisans of "school choice" were cheered recently by reports of success from an unexpected place: Sweden. The inaugural issue of School Choice: Issues in Thought, published by the Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation, celebrates the results of that Scandinavian land's 1992 education reform. Because of the exercise of a limited consumer choice, the encouragement to a kind of state-funded entrepreneurship, and the lack of any guiding moral vision, the twenty-first-century libertarian can celebrate this experiment in "school choice". The most obvious path toward education as homecoming lies in these home schools. Relative to homecoming, though, the more important traits of home schooling may be the social and familial. Private and religious schools can also be centers for education as homecoming. The use of busing and magnet schools to prevent or reverse racial segregation would admittedly come to an end under this approach.
