Spring 2003: Vol. 3, No. 2

Assessments of the state of American education on the 20th anniversary of the A Nation at Risk report

Students do no more homework today than they did 20 years ago, despite the recommendations of A Nation at Risk.

Increased economic growth, fueled by improvements in student performance, might have funded the nation’s entire K–12 education budget by now

That the nation is still debating—and has yet to address—many of the issues raised by A Nation at Risk is a testament to its prescience

In 1983, a blue-ribbon education commission appointed by Ronald Reagan’s first Secretary of Education, Terrel H. Bell, announced that America’s “educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling, … Read more