Chester E. Finn, Jr., in an article in the most recent issue of National Affairs, no less than the educational reformers of whom he speaks, has it all wrong. It’s not so much that the reforms have been misdirected, gone after the wrong targets, not been basic enough.
It’s rather that the reforms and the reformers, [...]
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School Ramblings brought on by reading Chester Finn
January 14, 2010“instead of an aristocracy of wealth”
January 1, 2009Thomas Jefferson proposed “instead of an aristocracy of wealth, of more harm and danger, than benefit, to society, to make an opening for the aristocracy of virtue and talent, which nature has wisely provided for the direction of the interests of society, and scattered with equal hand through all its conditions….”
What we have now is [...]
Readers of us all
December 31, 2008We read the following by David Lawrence Jr. in the Miami Herald of December 25:
“We’ll never make it work for children unless we start much earlier. Based on the latest FCAT 57,701 children, that’s 30 percent of Florida’s fourth grade public school students, cannot even meet minimum reading proficiency standards. As the school years progress, [...]
