Troublemaker A Personal History of School Reform since Sputnik

Name: Troublemaker A Personal History of School Reform since Sputnik
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ISBN: 9780691129907

ISBN-10: 0691129908

ISBN-13: 9780691129907

Edition: 2008

Authors: Chester E. Finn, Chester E. Finn

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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. InTroublemaker, Finn has written…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 2/24/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Introduction



Early 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



Today and Tomorrow



Leaving No Child Behind



Shaky Tripods



The Burden of Choice



Technology and Governance



Teachers, Time, and Money



Still Learning


Epilogue: Two Little Girls


Glossary


Notes


Index