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Troublemaker: A Personal History of School Reform Since Sputnik

Product Description: 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...read more

By Chester E. Finn, Jr.

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Hardcover:

9780691129907 | 1 edition (Princeton Univ Pr, February 4, 2008), cover price $26.95

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9780691171036 | Princeton Univ Pr, February 23, 2016, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Few people have been more involved in shaping postwar U.

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9781400828210 | Princeton Univ Pr, September 2, 2008, cover price $26.95

What Lies Ahead for Americas Children and Their Schools

Product Description: The coming decade holds immense potential for dramatic improvement in U.S. education and in the achievement of American children and in this volume, members of the Hoover Institutionâs Koret Task Force on Kâ12 Education examine both the potential gains and the pitfalls that lie ahead, informed by where U...read more

By Chester E. Finn, Jr. (editor) and Richard Sousa (editor)

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9780817917050 | Hoover Inst Pr, March 1, 2014, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The coming decade holds immense potential for dramatic improvement in U.

What Do Our 17-Year-Olds Know: A Report on the First National Assessment of History and Literature

What Do Our 17-Year-Olds Know? Gives the results of the first nationwide test of American high school students' knowledge of history and literature, as well as fascinating insight into what teenagers are reading, how much television they watch, what influence their home environment has on their academic achievement, and what historical topics and literary works are included in (or have been dropped from) the school curriculum.

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9780060158491 | Harpercollins, March 1, 1989, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: What Do Our 17-Year-Olds Know?

Paperback:

9780060915209, titled "What Do Our 17-Year Olds Know?: A Report on the First National Assessment of History and Literature" | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, September 1, 1988), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: What Do Our 17-Year-Olds Know?

Miscellaneous:

9780062036735 | Harpercollins, October 5, 2010, cover price $7.99

Reroute the Preschool Juggernaut

Product Description: Chester E. Finn, Jr. outlines the issues that define, animate, and complicate today's contentious pre-kindergarten debate in American education. He examines such topics as: which children really need it; how many aren't getting it; who should provide it and at what expense; what is the right balance between education and child care; and how to know whether it is succeeding...read more

By Chester E. Finn, Jr.

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9780817949914 | 1 edition (Hoover Inst Pr, June 1, 2009), cover price $10.00 | About this edition: Chester E.

We Must Take Charge!

By Chester E. Finn, Jr.

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9781439106433 | Free Pr, June 30, 2008, cover price $16.99

Charter Schools Against the Odds: An Assessment of the Koret Task Force on K-12 Education

Product Description: The expert contributors to this volume tell how state laws and policies have stacked the deck against charter schools by limiting the number of charter schools allowed in a state, forbidding for-profit firms from holding charters, forcing them to pay rent out of operating funds, and other ways...read more

By John E. Chubb (contributor), Chester E. Finn, Jr. (contributor), Paul Thomas Hill (editor), caroline M. Hoxby (contributor) and Eric Osberg (contributor)

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9780817947620 | Hoover Inst Pr, November 30, 2006, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The expert contributors to this volume tell how state laws and policies have stacked the deck against charter schools by limiting the number of charter schools allowed in a state, forbidding for-profit firms from holding charters, forcing them to pay rent out of operating funds, and other ways.

Making It Count: A Guide To High-impact Education Philanthropy

Product Description: Book by Finn, Chester E., Jr., Amin, Kelly

By Kelly Amin and Chester E. Finn, Jr.

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9780756719067 | Diane Pub Co, November 1, 2004, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Book by Finn, Chester E.

Leaving No Child Behind?: Options For Kids In Failing Schools

Product Description: NCLB is the signal domestic policy initiative of the Bush administration and the most ambitious piece of federal education legislation in at least thirty-five years. Mandating a testing regime to force schools to continually improve student performance, it uses school choice and additional learning resources as sticks and carrots intended to improve low-performing schools and districts...read more

By Chester E. Finn, Jr. (editor) and Frederick M. Hess (editor)

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9781403965882 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 1, 2004, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: NCLB is the signal domestic policy initiative of the Bush administration and the most ambitious piece of federal education legislation in at least thirty-five years.

Charter Schools in Action: Renewing Public Education

Product Description: Can charter schools save public education? This radical question has unleashed a flood of opinions from Americans struggling with the contentious challenges of education reform. There has been plenty of heat over charter schools and their implications, but, until now, not much light...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Chester E. Finn, Jr., Bruno V. Manno and Gregg Vanourek

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9780691004808 | Princeton Univ Pr, February 1, 2000, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Gauges the success of charter schools in America, analyzing the movement's progress since 1992 and measuring the positives and negatives of these reform-based schools.

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9780691090085 | Reprint edition (Princeton Univ Pr, July 30, 2001), cover price $46.00 | About this edition: Can charter schools save public education?

The Educated Child: A Parent's Guide from Preschool Through Eighth Grade

Provides a guide for what parents should expect their children to learn at each stage of grade school and how parents can help their children do well. (view table of contents)

By William J. Bennett, John T. E. Cribb, Jr. and Chester E. Finn, Jr.

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9780684833491 | Free Pr, November 1, 1999, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Provides a guide for what parents should expect their children to learn at each stage of grade school

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9780684872728 | Free Pr, November 1, 2000, cover price $24.99 | About this edition: Provides a guide for what parents should expect their children to learn at each stage of grade school and how parents can help their children do well.

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9780671047818 | Abridged edition (Simon & Schuster, November 1, 1999), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Provides a guide for what parents should expect their children to learn at each stage of grade school.

Can Teachers Own Their Own Schools?: New Strategies for Educational Excellence

Product Description: This book explores the prospects for creating Employee Stock Ownership Planse for public schools. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Chester E. Finn, Jr. (foreword by) and Richard K. Vedder

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9780945999836 | Independent Inst, July 1, 2000, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: This book explores the prospects for creating Employee Stock Ownership Planse for public schools.

Can Philanthropy Fix Our Schools?: Appraising Walter Annenberg's $500 Million Gift To Public Education

By Raymond Domanico, Chester E. Finn, Jr. (foreword by), Carol Innerst and Alexander Russo

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9780756700843 | Diane Pub Co, May 1, 2000, cover price $20.00

Quest for Better Teachers: Grading the States, the Teachers We Need and How to Get Them

By Chester E. Finn, Jr., Marcia Kanstoroom and Michael Petrilli

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9780756710095 | Diane Pub Co, February 1, 1999, cover price $25.00

Is There Life After Big Government?: The Potential of Civil Society

Product Description: Is There Life After Big Government? Despite all the discussion of " devolution" of responsibility and resources from Washington to states, communities, families, neighborhoods, and other mediating institutions, there have been few attempts to illustrate just what that might look like, how it would work, and why it would be beneficial...read more

By Chester E. Finn, Jr., Scott Hamilton and Gregg Vanourek

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9781558130586 | Hudson Inst, June 1, 1997, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Is There Life After Big Government?

The New Promise of American Life

Product Description: Book by Reid-Wallace, Carolynn

By David M. Abshire (editor), Lamar Alexander (editor), Chester E. Finn, Jr. (editor) and Carolynn Reid-Wallace

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9781558130531 | Hudson Inst, June 1, 1995, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Book by Reid-Wallace, Carolynn

We Must Take Charge: Our Schools and Our Future

Product Description: According to leading education analyst Chester Finn, a paradox lies at the heart of our educational trouble. While Americans commonly acknowledge that public schools in general are a disaster, polls consistently show that most parents, teachers, and administrators think their local schools and their own children are doing just fine...read more

By Chester E. Finn, Jr.

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9780029102756 | Free Pr, May 1, 1991, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Surveys educational successes and failures of the 1980s, argues that new educational standards should be established, and suggests a new emphasis on accountability

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9780029102763 | Reprint edition (Free Pr, June 1, 1993), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: According to leading education analyst Chester Finn, a paradox lies at the heart of our educational trouble.

Why Are People Beating Up on Higher Education

By Chester E. Finn, Jr.

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9781878802071 | John m Ashbrook Center for Public, June 1, 1992, cover price $3.00

Education Reform in the '90s

The product of a two-year project designed to assist legislators in making education decisions suggests new ways to address prenatal care, parenting, and multicultural learning.

By Chester E. Finn, Jr. and Theodor Rebarber (editor)

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9780028970950 | Macmillan Pub Co, June 1, 1992, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The product of a two-year project designed to assist legislators in making education decisions suggests new ways to address prenatal care, parenting, and multicultural learning

Challenges to the Humanities

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By Chester E. Finn, Jr. (editor)

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9780841910171 | Holmes & Meier Pub, May 1, 1985, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: Book by

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9780841910188 | Holmes & Meier Pub, May 1, 1985, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Book by

Against Mediocrity: The Humanities in America's High Schools

Essays discuss the importance of the humanities, foreign languages, teacher education, professionalism, and quality teaching

By Chester E. Finn, Jr. and Diane Ravitch

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9780841909441 | Holmes & Meier Pub, May 1, 1984, cover price $36.00 | About this edition: Essays discuss the importance of the humanities, foreign languages, teacher education, professionalism, and quality teaching

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9780841909458 | Holmes & Meier Pub, May 1, 1984, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Essays discuss the importance of the humanities, foreign languages, teacher education, professionalism, and quality teaching

Scholars, Dollars, and Bureaucrats

Examines the complex relationship between the federal government and the higher education system, making suggestions for reform and reorganization

By Chester E. Finn, Jr.

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9780815728283 | Brookings Inst Pr, December 1, 1978, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Examines the complex relationship between the federal government and the higher education system, making suggestions for reform and reorganization

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