"Learning-Free Zones" by Chester E. Finn, Jr., in Policy Review (Sept.–Oct. 1997), Heritage Foundation, 214 Massachusetts Ave. N.E., Washington, D.C. 20002.

Charter schools, vouchers, public school might just as well not exist as far as most choice, privatized management of public American schoolchildren are concerned. schools. Conservatives these days are chock-The problem, in Finn’s view, is massive resisfull of good ideas for reforming education, tance to change, something for which consays Finn, a former assistant U.S. secretary of servatives themselves used to be famous. But education. But while some of these reforms this new resistance is coming from "old-fashhave had modest tryouts in recent years, they ioned bureaucratic monopolies." How do

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