Sentences with phrase «nation at risk report»

In the wake of 1983's landmark A Nation at Risk report, early forays into standards - based accountability began at the state level, initiated out of concern over stagnant student achievement overall and especially bleak outcomes among traditionally underserved communities of students.

The impetus this time was the famous A Nation at Risk report, which framed the educational problem in dire economic terms and launched an avalanche of state - level efforts at reform.

There have been several reviews over the years that have pointed out the problems of the Nation At Risk report.

The famous Nation at Risk report cautioned in 1983 that American high schools were graduating legions of students unprepared to compete in a global market.

The landmark legislation was the state's response to a call for reform that had begun ten years earlier with the 1983 Nation at Risk report, which warned of «a rising tide of mediocrity» in U.S. schools.

The 1983 Nation at Risk report, which marked the start of the modern era of education reform, did not so much as mention the dropout problem even as it called for higher graduation requirements.

Since the Nation at Risk report of 1980's, Standarized Testing and preparing for these test have greatly changed public education and not for the better.

Floridians did not object since the national narrative since the 1986 A Nation At Risk report was that public schools were failing.

But since the Nation at Risk report, which found that 23 million American students were «functionally illiterate,» many began to feel the federal role in education needed to be strengthened.

The A Nation at Risk report warned in the starkest terms that if U.S. schools didn't shape up, the Germans and Japanese would beat our economic brains out, just as all the post-Sputnik Cassandras of the late 1950s and early 1960s warned that the Russians would win the cold war if the schools did not improve.

The Reagan administration briefly rolled back many ESEA provisions, but following the release of the 1983 A Nation at Risk report, which pointed out persistent inequalities in the education system and made unfavorable comparisons between U.S. students and those in other nations, old requirements were restored and new ones added.

In the three decades since the release of the Nation at Risk report, the U.S. education reform effort has failed to achieve lift - off.

The confusion owes partly to the language and perspectives of the A Nation at Risk report itself.

The touchstone A Nation at Risk report expressed fear of a deteriorating education system leading to an erosion in our global standing.

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

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Eighteen eminent persons studied the problem and reported in 1985 that «our nation is at risk.»

An investigative report released by Reuters News shows the City of Buffalo to be one of the most at - risk cities in the nation for child exposure to lead.

I brought up the MSNBC report that deemed one of the three reactors at the Hudson River nuclear power plant 24 miles from NYC (or 34 miles from Midtown, depending on how you're measuring), the most at risk in the nation of earthquake damage.

In the wake of the Japan crisis and an MSNBC report that one of the Indian Point reactors is more at risk for earthquake damage than any other in the nation — a claim refuted by the NRC — Cuomo called for a full safety review of the plant.

A progress report by the United Nations Environment Programme and the CBD finds that coral reefs are particularly at risk; 55 per cent are threatened by overfishing and other pressures.

Hans - Otto Poertner, Ecophysiologist at Alfred - Wegener Institute, Co-Chair of United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II and deputy coordinator of BIOACID explains: «The Fifth Assessment Report AR5 of the IPCC has shown that the risks of severe impacts for some organisms and ecosystems increases strongly between 1.5 and 2 degrees.

James Harvey, a member of the commission that produced «A Nation at Risk,» expresses concern about the uses made of the report and the direction it has given to school reform.

Recalling the impact of «A Nation at Risk,» the Reagan - era report that set the reform movement in motion, she wrote, «Many have forgotten, or never knew, what this report's message was and why it was so impactful.

In its report, A Nation at Risk, the National Commission on Excellence in Education declared that the «intellectual, moral, and spiritual strengths of our people» were in danger.

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«A Nation at Risk,» the grimly titled report issued in 1983 by the U.S. Department of Education, answered this question by describing the «rising tide of mediocrity» in young Americans» education.

The 1983 report «A Nation at Risk» launched the modern education standards movement with its plea for stronger academic preparation.

In the early 1980s, spurred by disappointing national test results and reports such as «A Nation At Risk» — the seminal document published in 1983 that decried the mediocre state of public education in America and recommended sweeping change to fix the problem — other states mounted reforms using administrative reorganization or new curriculum as levers for change.

In April 1983, a federal commission warned in a famous report, «A Nation at Risk,» that American education was a «rising tide of mediocrity.»

So critics of A Nation at Risk and the viewpoint it embodied had a field day, years later, when the U.S. economy — seemingly oblivious to the warnings in the commission's famous report — boomed in the face of growing global competition.

The 1983 report A Nation at Risk called out comprehensive American high schools for their «smorgasbord» curricula that were «homogenized, diluted, and diffused to the point that they no longer have a central purpose.»

That is the conclusion reached in one of the first attempts to estimate the overall cost for schools of implementing the recommendations of the excellence commission, whose report — «A Nation at Risk» — was the first of a handful of major analyses of public education...

Washington — Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell has asked his newly appointed «Task Force on Educational Technology» to prepare a report that, like the much - heralded «A Nation at Risk,» will convey its message «so powerfully and eloquently that there will be attention paid to it.»

This dire sequence started, he says, with A Nation at Risk, the 1983 Reagan administration report that launched America on «experiments» such as «open classrooms, national goals, merit pay, vouchers, charter schools, smaller classes, alternative certification for teachers, student portfolios, and online learning, to name just a handful.»

A Nation at Risk, National Commission on Excellence in Education, April «Report of the Task Force on Federal Elementary and Secondary Education Policy,» Twentieth Century Fund, May 1983

Last week, on April 26, we marked the 20th anniversary of A Nation at Risk, the report of the National Commission on Excellence in Education, which was created by then - U.S. Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell during the Reagan administration.

In the decade prior to the 1983 release of «A Nation at Risk,» the landmark report by the National Commission on Excellence in Education, the percentage of the public giving local schools one of the two highest grades in the Phi Delta Kappan (PDK) poll had fallen from nearly 50 % to just above 30 %.

Back in 1982, the Reagan administration jump - started that parade by releasing its attention - getting report on the state of American education, A Nation at Risk.

Two years into the presidency of Ronald Reagan the National Commission on Excellence in Education issued a report, «A Nation at Risk,» to highlight the low, declining performance of U.S. schools.

In the early 1980s, the indifferent quality of American schools came to the fore in the report A Nation at Risk.

The 1983 report A Nation at Risk, found that about 13 percent of all 17 - year - olds in the United States could be considered functionally illiterate, and that functional illiteracy among minority youth could run as high as 40 percent.

«If we do not use the current interest in education reform to improve the capabilities of our schools, the nation's future will, indeed, be at risk,» said the members of the National Consortium for Educational Excellence in a report presented to Acting Secretary of Education Gary L. Jones here on Dec. 21.

Standards - based reform got underway in the late 1980s and early 1990s, in part as a reaction to A Nation at Risk, the 1983 report by President Reagan's Commission on Excellence in Education.

After A Nation At Risk and myriad other studies and reports called for sweeping K — 12 reforms, he tried again with a 1988 treatise called Education by Charter: Restructuring School Districts.

When Gerald Holton, a member of the National Commission on Excellence in Education, was charged with drafting the 1983 report A Nation at Risk, he never anticipated how loudly and how long his words would echo through the corridors of education.

She points out that adding academic time was one of five major recommendations in the landmark 1983 report «A Nation at Risk» — the only recommendation never acted on.

But as recently as the early»80s, there was no comprehensive national education policy before the landmark report «A Nation at Risk» helped set it in motion.

However, by the time Sizer wrote his seminal 1985 report, A Study of High Schools, and A Nation at Risk warned of education failure and the need for deep reform, that earlier sense of utopia was slipping away.

The pace of reform was greatly accelerated with the release in 1983 of the blue - ribbon report A Nation at Risk.

Young people in the United States today, she says, are suffering because of «school stress, the college admissions process, high - stakes testing, cutthroat competition, the emphasis on stardom rather than on enjoyment of activities, sleep deprivation, parental pressure, the push for perfectionism, the need for escapism, the Age of Comparison, [and] the loss of leisure and childhood...» Among her favorite culprits for this state of affairs are testing in general, the SAT in particular, the «Nation at Risk» report, and the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), which she believes turned elementary schools and junior high schools into testing factories.