Chester E. Finn, Jr. is president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and a leading policy expert, educator, and public servant who has devoted his career to improving education in the United States. He is also a Senior Fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution where he chairs the Koret Task Force on K-12 Education.
For 40 years, Chester has been in the forefront of the national debate about school reform.
He has served as Assistant Secretary at the U.S. Department of Education (1985-88) and earlier as Staff Assistant to the President of the United States.
Chester is the author of 20 books. His latest is titled Exam Schools: Inside America’s Most Selective Public High Schools, co-authored with Jessica A. Hockett.
Chester holds three degrees from Harvard University.
He and his wife have two grown children and three granddaughters.
Chester Finn Reveals The High Achieving Students In America’s Exam Schools,
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