What’s the point of high school?
Many states are struggling to revise their high-school graduation requirements, sometimes up, sometimes down. The most basic is the perennial issue of how hard should it be to earn a diploma. The next is how can high schools can possibly prepare thousands of dissimilar young people for the expectations and prerequisites of hundreds of differing post-graduation options?
Chester E. Finn, Jr. 9.5.2024
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What Really Happened? Minnesota's experience with statewide public school choice programs
Terry Ryan 6.19.2002
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The Condition of Education 2002
Chester E. Finn, Jr. 6.19.2002
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School Choice Tradeoffs: Liberty, Equity, and Diversity
5.27.2002
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Illiberal critics of school choice
5.27.2002
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Education in the Twenty-first Century
Chester E. Finn, Jr. 5.27.2002
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The High School Diploma: Making It More Than An Empty Promise
Chester E. Finn, Jr. 5.27.2002
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School Boards at the Dawn of the 21st Century: Conditions and Challenges of District Governance
Chester E. Finn, Jr. 5.27.2002
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Technology Counts 2002: E-Defining Education
Chester E. Finn, Jr. 5.27.2002
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Mayoral Influence, New Regimes, and Public School Governance
Terry Ryan 5.27.2002
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Beyond instructional leadership
5.27.2002
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Bringing in a New Era in Character Education
Chester E. Finn, Jr. 5.27.2002
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To Assure the Free Appropriate Public Education of All Children With Disabilities
Chester E. Finn, Jr. 5.27.2002
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