 | Patricia Albjerg Graham - 2005 - 288 σελίδες
...country faced if the academic achievement of schoolchildren did not improve. The commissioners opined, "If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose...today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war." Assertions that the United States was committing unilateral disarmament by failing to educate its children... | |
 | Emma Smith - 2005 - 226 σελίδες
...strong, and condemns the 'rising tide of mediocrity' that was eroding the American public school system: If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose...today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. (NCEE 1983,3) The rhetoric is little different today. American students still occupy a mid-table position... | |
 | Harold Wenglinsky - 2005 - 112 σελίδες
...Terrell Bell. The report concluded that the education system was producing a generation of mediocrities. "If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose...today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war" (National Commission on Excellence in Education, 1983, p. 1). The report called for policymakers to... | |
 | Gail Dickinson - 2005 - 196 σελίδες
...Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform. Found in this report are the infamous words: "If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose...exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war."1 These words were the basis for an educational revolution. Shock waves rolled through the educational... | |
 | Norman Finkelstein - 2005 - 115 σελίδες
...education issued its landmark report, A Nation at Risk. "If an unfriendly foreign power," the report said, "had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational...exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war."4 Teachers in rural schools were poorly prepared through the 1960s. The school buildings were... | |
 | Mathias Hildebrandt - 2005 - 556 σελίδες
...a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future äs a Nation and a people (...). If any unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on...performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it äs an act of war" (National Commission on Excellence in Education 1983: 5). Als Ursachen für die... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science - 2005 - 64 σελίδες
...Reagan appointed a Blue Panel Commission that released "A Nation At Risk." In the report, it states, "If an unfriendly, foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre education performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war." And that was... | |
 | Mark Gura, Bernard Percy - 2005 - 200 σελίδες
...advantage of it in the field of education. It is not something we can avoid. CHAPTER 2 What's at Stake? We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking, unilateral educational disarmament. —National Commission on Excellence in Education, A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science - 2005 - 72 σελίδες
...Reagan appointed a Blue Panel Commission that released "A Nation At Risk." In the report, it states, "If an unfriendly, foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre education performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war." And that was... | |
 | Tim Carman - 2005 - 244 σελίδες
...an unfriendlv Ioreign power had attempted to impose on America the medlocre educational perIormance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act ol war," and it goes on to say we have in eIIect "been committing an act of unthinking, unilateral... | |
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If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. 
