as been influential in shaping discussions around standards-based reform, quality assessment, and school choi... and parents.
===== Key Contributions =====
==== Standards-based Reform ====
**Advocacy for Clear Standards**: Finn has long argued for the establishment of clear and measurable academic standards for students and schools. He believes that having
ionalizing the faculty, and increasing admissions standards. Eliot's reforms had a profound influence not jus... ch. His leadership helped shape the structure and standards of the modern American university system.
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