Vol. 3, No. 2
Our Schools and Our Future
Assessments of the state of American education on the 20th anniversary of the A Nation at Risk report
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The Test of Time
A Nation at Risk was an historic document—for its time. Now we know that while its findings were dead on, its reform agenda relied too much on the existing system
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A Landmark Revisited
“Education reforms are useless unless our kids take responsibility for their education,” legendary union leader Albert Shanker wrote a decade ago.
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Reforms for Whom?
The core of A Nation at Risk was its concern that America’s public schools were not challenging enough to prepare students for a future built on technology and information.
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High Hurdles
The authors of A Nation at Risk recognized a fundamental truth of education: that reforms, if they are to be successful, must reach into education’s inner sanctum, the classroom.
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Not So Grand a Strategy
A Nation at Risk emphasized the importance of learning so-called “higher-order skills” in the early grades. But even chess grand masters need to learn the basics first.
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The Least Common Denominator
The effort to push underprepared students into academic courses has driven the rigor out of many textbooks and classrooms
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Accountability Unplugged
Illustration by Stuart Bradford.
A Nation at Risk foreshadowed the modern accountability movement. While the...
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