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
Vol. 3, No. 2
Unrecognized Progress
“It is high time that we commit the full resources required to improve every school in America, so that every child is at grade level or above"
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Out of Balance
School Choice Tradeoffs: Liberty, Equity, and Diversity
by By R. Kenneth Godwin and Frank R. Kemerer
University of Texas Press,...
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Help Wanted
Choice, accountability, and transparency will mean little without a new generation of school-based leaders to light the way
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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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