Failing Our Brightest Kids - Finn, Chester E; Wright, Brandon L
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Failing Our Brightest Kids argues that the United States, compared to other countries, has done too little to educate students to the highest levels of achievement--particularly students from disadvantaged backgrounds. This candid and provocative book makes a powerful case that our country can and should do more to fully develop the nation's human capital by providing gifted and talented students the opportunities they deserve. "Failing Our Brightest Kids provides a comprehensive analysis of the failure to educate American students to high levels. Using international comparisons, Finn and…mehr

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Failing Our Brightest Kids argues that the United States, compared to other countries, has done too little to educate students to the highest levels of achievement--particularly students from disadvantaged backgrounds. This candid and provocative book makes a powerful case that our country can and should do more to fully develop the nation's human capital by providing gifted and talented students the opportunities they deserve. "Failing Our Brightest Kids provides a comprehensive analysis of the failure to educate American students to high levels. Using international comparisons, Finn and Wright provide clear recommendations and opportunities for action that meet both the challenge and charge of America--educational excellence and equity." --Hanna Skandera, secretary of education, New Mexico Public Education Department "Finn and Wright make a strong case that policy makers and education leaders must work to improve the education of academically talented children from all socioeconomic categories so that our nation lives up to its commitment to equity, maintains its competitive edge, and helps these children develop as happy and productive citizens." --M. René Islas, executive director, National Association for Gifted Children "This book provides myriad insights into why the US has a relatively poor record of educating its best students and gives a clear, balanced prescription for what is to be done. The bottom line: we should not settle for getting everyone merely to proficiency; we need actively to cultivate our star students, particularly those from poor families." --Harold Levy, executive director, Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, and former New York City schools chancellor "With this vital and controversial book, Checker Finn and Brandon Wright have made a huge contribution to educational thinking on a subject that has been neglected for far too long. Policy makers across America and beyond should pay attention!" --Sir Michael Barber, chief education advisor, Pearson Chester E. Finn, Jr., is a distinguished senior fellow and president emeritus at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, and a senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution. Brandon L. Wright is a managing editor and policy associate at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute. Failing Our Brightest Kids is a volume in the Educational Innovations series.
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Chester E. Finn, Jr. is the distinguished senior fellow and president emeritus at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and a senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution. His previous positions include Professor of Education and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University, counsel to the U.S. ambassador to India, legislative director for Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and Assistant U.S. Secretary of Education for Research and Improvement. He has also been on the research staffs of the Brookings Institution, the Hudson Institute, and the Manhattan Institute, and has taught high school social studies in Massachusetts. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of more than twenty books and has written more than four hundred articles in a wide array of scholarly and popular publications. He is a regular contributor to Fordham's Education Gadfly Weekly, a contributing editor of Education Next, and a contributor to such online outlets as NationalReview.com, Politico, and Atlantic.com. He serves on the Maryland State Board of Education and the boards of the National Council on Teacher Quality and the Core Knowledge Foundation and has spoken at hundreds of seminars, conferences, symposia, and meetings across the United States and in many other countries. He is the recipient of awards from the Educational Press Association of America, the National Association for Gifted Children, the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, and the Education Writers Association. He holds three degrees from Harvard University and an honorary doctorate from Colgate University. Brandon L. Wright is a managing editor and policy associate at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, where he has worked since graduating from American University Washington College of Law in 2012 with a Juris Doctor. During law school, he clerked for an education law firm that advocates for students with special needs and was a senior staff member of the Administrative Law Review. He also holds a bachelor's degree in political science and philosophy from the University of Michigan. Both authors are also products of gifted-education programs of very different kinds. Finn was able to accelerate in mathematics in the Dayton Public Schools and later graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy, a selective-admission private high school. Wright participated in a full-time gifted pull-out program from grades 4 through 8 in his Michigan public school system.