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Failing Our Brightest Kids: A talk with NAGC's executive director René Islas

Chester E. Finn, Jr. Brandon L. Wright
11.16.2015

Last week, at NAGC's splendid 62nd Annual Covention and Exhibiton, NAGC's executive director René Islas interviewed us about our book, Failing Our Brightest Kids: The Global Challenge of Educating High-Ability Students. Embedded is a video of that discussion.

Chester E. Finn, Jr., scholar, educator and public servant, has devoted his career to improving education in the United States. At Fordham, he is now Distinguished Senior Fellow and President Emeritus. He’s also a Volker Senior Fellow at…

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Brandon Wright is the Editorial Director of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute. He is the coauthor or coeditor of three books: Failing our Brightest Kids: The Global Challenge of Educating High-Ability Students (with Chester E. Finn, Jr.), Charter Schools at the…

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