...far along that line. You know, that report that I mentioned first, it concluded that, in its words: "If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose...today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war." It helped heighten and accelerate a wave of education reform in States and communities all around the...

...far along that line. You know, that report that I mentioned first, it concluded that, in its words: "If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose...today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war." It helped heighten and accelerate a wave of education reform in States and communities all around the...

...generation ago has begun to occur — others are matching and surpassing our educational attainments. If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose...have allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover,...

...dishonest. We can only applaud the National Commission on Excellence in Education when it declares: "If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose...today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war * * * We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking, unilateral educational disarmament."...

...PEOPLE AND THE WEAKENING OF OUR MOST VITAL NATIONAL RESOURCE. QUOTING AGAIN FROM "A NATION AT RlSK": "IF AN UNFRIENDLY FOREIGN POWER HAD ATTEMPTED TO IMPOSE...TODAY, WE MIGHT WELL HAVE VIEWED IT AS AN ACT OF WAR." THE SCHOOL SYSTEMS HAVE LIVED UP TO THEIR OBLIGATION TO EDUCATE THE CHILDREN OF MILITARY FAMILIES IN...

...characterized in the following phrases that you heard perhaps on television yesterday: Our nation is at risk. If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose...today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. Moreover, we have dismantled the essential support systems which have made some gains possible, and...

...eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a nation and a people . . . If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose...today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. We have dismantled essential support systems which helped make educational gains possible. We have,...

...future. The first page of our Commission Report1 carries these sentences: "Our nation is at risk * ' * if an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose...that exists today, we might well have viewed it as a act of war. As it stands, we have allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the...

...on Excellence in Education, "a nation at risk." And we keep hearing by now the famous quote from it, "If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose...educational performance that exists today, we might well view it as an act of war." Now, this Commission did not specifically address bilingual education but...

...Education expressed a dismal view of our nation's educational system stating and I quote from that report, "If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose...mediocre educational performance that exists today, we may well have viewed it as an act of war." I believe if we neglect our biomedical establishment we...