The High School Diploma: Making It More Than An Empty Promise
Chester E. Finn, Jr.Russlyn Ali, The Education Trust-WestApril 2002
School Reform: The Critical Issues
Chester E. Finn, Jr.edited by Williamson M. Evers, Lance T. Izumi and Pamela A. Riley, Hoover Institution and Pacific Research Institute, 2001
Beyond instructional leadership
What does it take to be a successful principal? In the 1980s, "effective schools" research introduced the idea of instructional leadership.
Mayoral Influence, New Regimes, and Public School Governance
Terry RyanMichael W. Kirst, Consortium for Policy Research in Education, University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of EducationMay 2002
To Assure the Free Appropriate Public Education of All Children With Disabilities
Chester E. Finn, Jr.Office of Special Education Programs, U.S. Department of Education2001
Education in the Twenty-first Century
Chester E. Finn, Jr.edited by Edward P. Lazear, Hoover Institution2002
Bringing in a New Era in Character Education
Chester E. Finn, Jr.edited by William Damon, Hoover Institution2002
School Boards at the Dawn of the 21st Century: Conditions and Challenges of District Governance
Chester E. Finn, Jr.Frederick Hess, National School Boards Association2002
Illiberal critics of school choice
While the debate over school choice tends to focus on things like whether vouchers weaken public schools by draining away state funds or creaming the best students, most such contentions can be refuted by evidence.
What's with Edison Schools?
Chester E. Finn, Jr.Dozens of times in recent weeks, people have asked what I expect will happen to Edison Schools, formerly known as the Edison Project, considering the parlous state of the company's stock price, other signs of financial woe, the gnarly situation in Philadelphia, and the recent separation of Edison from one of its first schools (Boston's Renaissance charter school).No doubt I get asked thi