Chester E. Finn, Jr.

Chester E. Finn, Jr., is president of the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution, and senior editor of Education Next. He is the author of We Must Take Charge: Our Schools and Our Future (Free Press) and the coauthor of What Do Our 17-Year-Olds Know? (Harper & Row) and Charter Schools in Action (Princeton), among many other books.