 | Christopher T. Cross - Education - 2004 - 220 pages
...industry, 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. If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance... | |
 | Kenneth K. Wong, James W. Guthrie, Douglas N. Harris - Education - 2004 - 184 pages
...Harris Department of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations Peabody College of Vanderbilt University The educational foundations of our society are presently...threatens our very future as a Nation and a people. A Nation at Risk (NAR; National Commission on Excellence in Education [NCEE], 1983, p. 5) Twenty years... | |
 | Michael L. Slavkin - Education - 2004 - 362 pages
...expectations set for them by their communities. STANDARDS-BASED PRACTICE: THE HISTORY BEHIND THE MOVEMENT "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 education disarmament" (Kluth... | |
 | James P. Takona, Roberta J. Wilburn - Education - 2004 - 300 pages
...Bell's report presented strong and dramatic statements resembling a nation at war and with a warning: The educational foundations of our society are presently...threatens our very future as a nation and a people. If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance... | |
 | Steven Mintz - Family & Relationships - 2004 - 472 pages
...achievement despite sharp increases in school spending. In its most memorable passage, the report warned: "The educational foundations of our society are presently...threatens our very future as a Nation and a people ... If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance... | |
 | David L. Brunsma - Crafts & Hobbies - 2004 - 306 pages
...as from the bully pulpit of the presidency) stated that, "the educational foundations of our societv are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity...threatens our very future as a Nation and a people" (A Nation at Risk 1983). The 1970s and early 1980s were characterized by a host of social and economic... | |
 | Frank J. McVeigh, Loreen Therese Wolfer - Political Science - 2004 - 466 pages
...1994; Graubard, 1995; Louis, 1998). It stated that "...the educational foundation of our society is presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity...threatens our very future as a nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur - - others are matching and surpassing our... | |
 | Carneades - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 424 pages
...Bell, releases its report, titled/4 Nation at Risk, declaring, "The country's educational standards are being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a nation and as a people." A Nation at Risk, exploiting the Conservative leit motif, that "the Russians are coming,... | |
 | John E. C. MacBeath, Lejf Moos - Education - 2004 - 216 pages
...degree of unexamined assumptions as to the relationship between schooling and the economy. It posited 'a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a nation and a people', a notion that could not be substantiated with any documentary evidence. It went on to claim: 'our once... | |
 | Susan Fuhrman, Marvin Lazerson - Political Science - 2005 - 434 pages
...for Educational Reform. The report included the following dire warning: Our nation is at risk. . . .The educational foundations of our society are presently...threatens our very future as a Nation and a people. ... If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance... | |
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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. 
