Troublemaker: A Personal History of School Reform since SputnikFew 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. |
Contents
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Becoming an Educator | 26 |
The Seventies | 33 |
White House Days | 41 |
Out of Washington | 56 |
The Politics of Aiding Private Schools | 66 |
A Federal Department of Education? | 77 |
The Nineties | 165 |
Bipartisan Reform in Actionand Inaction | 169 |
Charters and Vouchers | 181 |
International Alarums Contentious Responses | 187 |
Whittling and Think tanking | 194 |
Clinton Goals and Testing | 204 |
Priests Professionals and Politicians | 211 |
Choices and Summits | 216 |
Becoming a Republican | 87 |
The Eighties | 95 |
Quality Gains Traction | 101 |
Educators Awaken | 108 |
Professing in Tennessee | 118 |
Inside the Beast | 125 |
The Quest for Better Information | 134 |
Goals Standards and Markets | 149 |
Back to Dayton | 224 |
Leaving No Child Behind | 237 |
Shaky Tripods | 246 |
The Burden of Choice | 261 |
Technology and Governance | 273 |
Teachers Time and Money | 283 |
Still Learning | 296 |
Other editions - View all
Troublemaker: A Personal History of School Reform since Sputnik Chester E. Finn, Jr. Limited preview - 2008 |
Troublemaker: A Personal History of School Reform Since Sputnik Chester E. Finn No preview available - 2016 |
Troublemaker: A Personal History of School Reform since Sputnik Chester E. Finn Jr. No preview available - 2008 |