Chester E. Finn, Jr.

Does Money Matter? Edited by Gary Burtless.Brookings, 296 pages, $39.95. Catholic Education: Homeward Bound By Kimberly Hahn and Mary Hasson.Ignatius, 400 pages, $14.95. Choosing Schools: Vouchers and American Education By Jerome J. Hanus and Peter W. Cookson Jr. American University . . . . Continue Reading »

Will the flood of education books ever subside? Since 1983, when the National Commission on Excellence in Education declared us a “nation at risk,” there’s been a deluge. Wags have noted that we are menaced by a rising tide of education reports. Most fall into familiar categories. These . . . . Continue Reading »

Perhaps the most striking feature of our contemporary political landscape is the failure of the tattered labels “liberal” and “conservative” any longer to convey useful distinctions. In my own field of education policy, for example, those who get called conservative are in fact deeply . . . . Continue Reading »