First Things RSS Feed - Chester E. Finn, Jr. https://www.firstthings.com/author/chester-e-finn-jr en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:56:59 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/chester-e-finn-jr 60 Reforming Education: A Whole New World https://www.firstthings.com/article/1997/05/reforming-education-a-whole-new-world https://www.firstthings.com/article/1997/05/reforming-education-a-whole-new-world Thu, 01 May 1997 00:00:00 -0400 Does Money Matter?
Edited by Gary Burtless.
Brookings, 296 pages, $39.95 .

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]]> The Education Reform Dodge https://www.firstthings.com/article/1992/05/the-education-reform-dodge https://www.firstthings.com/article/1992/05/the-education-reform-dodge Fri, 01 May 1992 00:00:00 -0400 Smart Schools, Smart Kids:
Why Do Some Schools Work?
by Edward B. Fiske 
Simon & Schuster 303 pages, $21.95

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]]> When Families Fail https://www.firstthings.com/article/1991/01/when-families-fail https://www.firstthings.com/article/1991/01/when-families-fail Tue, 01 Jan 1991 00:00:00 -0500 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 displeased with the status quo and accordingly spend most of their time agitating for revolutionary changes in well-established assumptions and in the rules by which the system operates. By contrast, those commonly termed liberal tend to be reasonably satisfied with the basic arrangements as they have evolved over time and to resist strategies for non-incremental change.

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