Sweetman, R. 'A Fair and Just Solution'? A History of the integration of private schools in New Zealand

ISBN 0-86469-414-8
Published by Dunmore Press in association with the Ministry for Culture and Heritage and the Association of Proprietors of Integrated Schools, 2002

RRP: $34.95, 323pp

By allowing private schools to enter the state system and ending a century of secularism in New Zealand education, the Private Schools Conditional Integration Act 1975 reshaped New Zealand's education landscape and ushered in what has been termed a 'quiet revolution'. This book tells how a group of educationalists and politicians searched for and found a local solution to a problem that bedevilled much of the English-speaking world.