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Chester E. Finn, Jr.

Chester E. Finn, Jr.

Professor and former Assistant Secretary for Research and Improvement at the U.S. Department of EducationWikipedia

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Sep 23, 2026

Ian RoweGUEST
21:21
But the data, when it becomes available, disaggregated by family structure, really makes a difference.
Ian RoweGUEST
21:27
So my colleague and I, Brad Wilcox, embarked upon an effort to do a report to say, does it make a difference? And we learned that the National Assessment for Educational Progress, and actually it was Checker Finn who was the first person to alert me to this fact, actually collects data on the student questionnaire every two years on NAEP, the National Assessment for Educational Progress, the nation's report card.
Ian RoweGUEST
21:53
And what's interesting, they don't ask kids, what's your family structure? it's a simple question.
Ian RoweGUEST
21:58
It says, who do you live with? And it's a drop down.
John PodhoretzHOST
33:22
Fixing education has been the number one domestic issue after crime for people on the right.
John PodhoretzHOST
33:29
Nikole Hannah-Jones has never met a person on the right, has never had a conversation with a person on the right, has never read an article in The Manhattan Institute, does not know who Checker Finn is, does not know [chuckles] who Robert Pondiscio is, does not know what the Fordham Institute is, does not know anything about the world of people who have said, "Okay, school's bad.
John PodhoretzHOST
33:50
It's uniquely bad for poor kids.
John PodhoretzHOST
33:53
What do we do to fix it? How do we fix it?" Because she isn't interested in fixing education.

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