Why School Reforms Lose

__"Learning-Free Zones" by Chester E. Finn, Jr., in Policy Review (Sept.–Oct. 1997), Heritage Foundation, 214 Massachusetts Ave. N.E., Washington, D.C. 20002.__

Charter schools, vouchers, public school might just as well not exist as far as most choice, privatized management of public American schoolchildren are concerned. schools. Conservatives these days are chock-The problem, in Finn’s view, is massive resisfull of good ideas for reforming education, tance to change, something for which consays Finn, a former assistant U.S. secretary of servatives themselves used to be famous. But education. But while some of these reforms this new resistance is coming from "old-fashhave had modest tryouts in recent years, they ioned bureaucratic monopolies." How do

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