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9.26.09 - Chester Finn - While the Senate is consumed by health care, other problem topics are piling up. A recent arrival on its docket is the "Early Learning Challenge Fund," a complex federal pre-school collage

8.28.09 - How have other countries navigated these turbid waters? What do their systems look like? How did they get there? What can we learn from them?

8.13.09 - Chester Finn If America's elementary and high schools laid a sounder educational foundation for more of their students, America's colleges would be far more successful at constructing a solid and artful edifice atop it.

8.7.09 - Much as the Articles of Confederation proved no match for the problems and opportunities facing the new nation, so our traditional K-12 structures and governance arrangements are showing their obsolescence and frailty.

By Michael J. Petrilli
"She was hungry, loved politics, had charm and energy, loved walking onto the stage, waving and doing the stump speech. All good. But she was not thoughtful.

 

Checker Finn - July 13, 2009  - One must therefore assume that the speeches he's been making represent the apogee of education reform in the Obama administration and that actual policy and practice will end up being something less than the rhetoric calls for.

June 19, 2009 - Fordham Foundation - How much more "international benchmarking" does American education actually need? Gary W. Phillips's inspired new study of how U.S. states and (some) districts are doing vis-à-vis the rest of the world suggests