We Must Take Charge: Our Schools and Our Future

by Chester E. Finn Jr.

Book Overview

In We Must Take Charge, Chester E. Finn, Jr., exhorts Americans from all walks of like to take control of our degenerating public education system. Finn notes that the system continues to lack accountability and quality control and proposes radical changes, saying We cannot wait for new 'experts' to save our schools and our children.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0029102758
• ISBN13: 9780029102756
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Free Press
• Length: 365 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Finn is an Education Visionary

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. We are expecting our first grandchild in a few weeks and I want my daughter to read every book that Professor Finn ha written. It will ensure the success of my grandchild's future. Don McNay...