Name: Troublemaker: A Personal History of School Reform Since Sputnik (en Inglés)
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Author: Chester E. Finn Jr.
ISBN: 9780691171036

portada Troublemaker: A Personal History of School Reform Since Sputnik (en Inglés)

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Princeton University Press

Autor

Chester E. Finn Jr.

Año

2016

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Inglés

N° páginas

376

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Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9780691171036

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Organización y gestión educativa

Troublemaker: A Personal History of School Reform Since Sputnik (en Inglés)

Chester E. Finn Jr. (Autor) · Princeton University Press · Tapa Blanda

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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. 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. Clear-eyed yet optimistic, Finn ultimately gives grounds for hope that the best of today's bold initiatives--from charter schools to technology to makeovers of school-system governance--are finally beginning to make a difference.