| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor - 1985 - 402 pages
...would handicap learning through withdrawal of Child Nutrition Programs when recent studies such as "A Nation At Risk . . ." by the National Commission on Excellence in Education call for a renewed commitment to education as a national priority. School child nutrition programs... | |
| Colleen A. Capper - Education - 1993 - 344 pages
...REFORM AND SOCIAL CLASS The report that started the national move toward excellence in education was A Nation at Risk by the National Commission on Excellence in Education (1983). While it called on schools to hold students to high academic standards, the report also described... | |
| Stephen M. Fishman, Lucille Parkinson McCarthy - Education - 1998 - 274 pages
...Experiment" 1936: 463 INTRODUCTION WHY CARE ABOUT DEWEY Now? Steve Fishman Since the publication in 1983 of A Nation at Risk, by the National Commission on Excellence in Education, there has been an ongoing debate about the level of scholastic achievement in America's schools. Although... | |
| Marie Larochelle, Nadine Bednarz, James W. Garrison - Education - 1998 - 332 pages
...approach does not stand up to scrutiny. For example, since the mid-eighties, following publication of A Nation at Risk by the National Commission on Excellence in Education (NCEE, 1983), funding for reform initiatives has been increasing. To be sure, commentators have noted... | |
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