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Conservatives were less enchanted. "The education establishment has looked awfully happy lately," says Chester Finn Jr., an Assistant Secretary of Education under Bennett. "We need big changes, and the people running our schools are not inclined to make them." An opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal was blunter: "This is the first major blunder of ((Bush's)) presidency...
...years. The trend is more pronounced among minorities, who frequently work in schools with the most complex social and academic problems. Given attractive options in private industry, blacks -- as well as women -- no longer feel forced to endure jobs they consider unsatisfying. "The old days were different," says Chester Finn, former Assistant Secretary of Education. "A lot of our finest teachers were women and minorities who had no other place to earn a living...
Theresa A. Finn, founder and joint-coordinator of the Irish Cultural Society, said the concert "was a total surprise. I guess Lipson must have heard of us since we have sponsored Irish cultural events at Harvard since the society's inception four years...
...Finn is not the only person to use University money to do thesis research. Several Harvard-Radcliffe departments as well as the Center for International Affairs (CFIA) and Radcliffe College annually sponsor a variety of grants and fellowships for prospective seniors to conduct research on their theses...
...Finn agrees, saying the opportunity enabled her to research mostly primary sources like manuscripts, and allowed her to start much earlier to do thesis work...