That’s Right—They’re Wrong

Nothing can be done with our schools until the basic problem is solved—and no one even sees what it is.

CHESTER FINN of the Educational Excellence Network is wrong. Michael Levin, controversial professor at the City College of New York is wrong. John Chubb, scholar at the Brookings Institution, is wrong. Former Yale University President Benno Schmidt and Christopher Whittle, partners in the Edison Project to build a thousand “innovative” private schools, are wrong. Past and present U.S. Secretaries of Education William Bennett and Lamar Alexander are wrong. So were Presidents Eisenhower, Johnson, Carter, and Reagan. And so are President Bush, Congress, fifty governors, and virtually everyone in the media. They all were and are tragically wrong.

Nothing can be done with our schools until the basic problem is solved—and no one even sees what it is.

CHESTER FINN of the Educational Excellence Network is wrong. Michael Levin, controversial professor at the City College of New York is wrong. John Chubb, scholar at the Brookings Institution, is wrong. Former Yale University President Benno Schmidt and Christopher Whittle, partners in the Edison Project to build a thousand “innovative” private schools, are wrong. Past and present U.S. Secretaries of Education William Bennett and Lamar Alexander are wrong. So were Presidents Eisenhower, Johnson, Carter, and Reagan. And so are President Bush, Congress, fifty governors, and virtually everyone in the media. They all were and are tragically wrong.