What Do Our 17-Year-Olds Know?: A Report on the First National Assessment of History and Literature
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What Do Our 17-Year-Olds Know? Gives the results of the first nationwide test of American high school students' knowledge of history and literature, as well as fascinating insight into what teenagers... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0060158492
ISBN13:9780060158491
Release Date:January 1987
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
Length:293 Pages
Weight:1.16 lbs.
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A groundbreaking book when it came out. For the past 20 years, Chester Finn has been a behind the scenes and in some cases, in front of the crowd leader for most of the great education reforms that have occurred in the past 20 years. Having had the great fortune to be one of Finn's students at Vanderbilt many years ago, I have had a chance to read the plethora of great books and articles that Finn has published. This is another in that series. Don't just buy this book and The Educated Child (which apparently is a huge bestseller) go back and buy all his books. Finn is a great academic who is blessed with an ability to communicate to the common person. Finn may talk about the education that children receive but he is the best educator a parent can ever find. Don McNay...
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