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100 1 $aFinn, Chester E.,$cJr.,$d1944-
245 10 $aTroublemaker :$ba personal history of school reform since Sputnik /$cChester E. Finn, Jr.
260 $aPrinceton, New Jersey :$bPrinceton University Press,$c[2008]
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 319-346) and index.
505 0 $aEarly days -- Schoolkid in the fifties -- Into the sixties -- Becoming an educator -- The seventies -- White house days -- Out of Washington -- The politics of aiding private schools -- A Federal Department of Education? -- Becoming a Republican -- The eighties -- Quality gains traction -- Educators awaken -- Professing in Tennessee -- Inside the beast -- The quest for better information -- Goals, standards, and markets -- The Nineties -- Bipartisan reform in action-and inaction -- Charters and vouchers -- International alarums, contentious responses -- Whittling and think-tanking -- Clinton, goals, and testing -- Priests, professionals, and politicians -- Choices and summits -- Back to Dayton -- Leaving no child behind -- Shaky tripods -- The burden of choice -- Technology and governance -- Teachers, time, and money -- Still learning.
520 1 $a"Few people have been more involved in shaping postwar U.S. education reforms - or dissented from some of them more effectively - than Chester Finn. Assistant secretary of education under Ronald Reagan, and an aide to politicians as different as Richard Nixon and Daniel Moynihan, Finn has also been a high school teacher, an education professor, a prolific and best-selling writer, a think-tank analyst, a nonprofit foundation president, and both a Democrat and Republican. This remarkably varied career has given him an extraordinary insider's view of every significant school-reform movement of the past four decades, from racial integration to No Child Left Behind. In Troublemaker, Finn has written a vivid history of postwar education reform that is also the personal story of one of the foremost players - and mavericks - in American education." "Finn tells how his experiences have shaped his changing views of the three major strands of postwar school reform: standards-driven, choice-driven, and profession-driven. Of the three, Finn now believes that a combination of choice and standards has the greatest potential, but he favors this approach more on pragmatic than ideological grounds, arguing that parents should be given more options at the same time that schools are allowed more flexibility and held to higher performance norms. He also explains why education reforms of all kinds are so difficult to implement, and he draws valuable lessons from their frequent failure."--Jacket.
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