 | Edward J. Larson - History - 2003 - 287 pages
...education in America. "The educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by the rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a Nation and a people," the report warned. It called for uniform minimum standards for academic content and student performance,... | |
 | Jennifer L. Hochschild, Nathan Scovronick - Education - 2003 - 320 pages
...science, and technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. . . . The educational foundations of our society are presently...threatens our very future as a Nation and a people. . . . We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking, unilateral educational disarmament.56... | |
 | Robert J. Marzano - Education - 2003 - 225 pages
...that K-12 education had indeed devolved to a state of irreversible disrepair. The report noted that "the educational foundations of our society are presently...threatens our very future as a nation and a people" (National Commission on Excellence in Education, 1983, p. 5). To punctuate the importance of the message... | |
 | Ronald A. Manzer - Political Science - 2003 - 626 pages
...commission raised an educational alarm: 'Our Nation is at risk ... We report to the American people that ... the educational foundations of our society are presently...mediocrity that threatens our very future as a Nation and a people.'121 The formerly unchallenged pre-eminence of the United States in commerce, industry, science,... | |
 | Antony Flew - Social Science - 2003 - 200 pages
...made its report under the title A Nation at Risk. The crucial epitomising clause in that Report read: The educational foundations of our society are presently...mediocrity that threatens our very future as a nation and as a people. . . If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational... | |
 | William Owings - Education - 2003 - 290 pages
...for educational leaders to bring the reform agenda to fruition. The report warned that "the education foundations of our society are presently being eroded...mediocrity that threatens our very future as a nation" (p. 6). It also captured the attention of politicians, policymakers, and the public with a dramatic... | |
 | Bakri Musa - Social Science - 2003 - 324 pages
...subjects like consumer math and driver ed. "The educational foundations of our society," the report notes, "are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity...threatens our very future as a nation and a people." Gardner's report was commissioned in response to the challenge coming from what was then widely accepted... | |
 | Lee Edwards - Education - 2003 - 398 pages
...54. Ibid. "a nation at risk." "The educational foundations of our society," the commission warned, "are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a Nation and a people."55 And the foundations will not be restored by the magic of some new technology but by schools... | |
 | Sally J. Zepeda - Educational leadership - 2004 - 184 pages
...its report, A Nation at Risk, in which it warned that the educational foundation of our society was being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a nation and a people. The report alleged that part of the responsibility of the America's declining productivity in the face... | |
 | Sean Hannity - Political Science - 2004 - 356 pages
...Commission on Excellence in Education. Its findings were startling. Its conclusions were sobering. "The educational foundations of our society are presently...threatens our very future as a nation and a people," the report began, adding that "if an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the... | |
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States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a Nation and a people. 
