Finn Basks in Role as Standards-Bearer, Gadfly

Autor/in	Maxwell, Lesli A.
Titel	Finn Basks in Role as Standards-Bearer, Gadfly
Quelle	In: Education Week, 26 (2006) 16, S.1 (2 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0277-4232
Schlagwörter	Academic Standards; Accountability; Educational Improvement; School Choice; Educational Policy; District of Columbia; Ohio + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Verantwortung; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik
Abstract	When Chester E. Finn Jr.--already one of Washington's best-known education policy entrepreneurs--took charge of an unknown foundation in Dayton, Ohio, in 1997, the match quickly blossomed into a fruitful marriage. Drawing on a nearly $50 million endowment in need of a mission, Mr. Finn, in the decade since, has shaped the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation into one of the most provocative and prolific platforms for education ideas in the country. Scores of manifestos, reports, books, newspaper op-eds, editions of the "Education Gadfly" e-mail newsletter, and think tank confabs have widely cast Fordham's credo: High academic standards and a robust menu of school choice will reinvent and improve American education. This article describes the kind of imprint Mr. Finn, known by friends and colleagues as Checker, has made as the president of the foundation. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10