Instead, in 1983
a landmark federal report called «A Nation At Risk» argued mediocre education was endangering the United States.
Not exact matches
The claim comes one year after the ATO had a
landmark win in the
Federal Court against US oil company Chevron over a similar issue, and as Exxon's Australian subsidiary
reported a 43 per cent surge in revenue to $ 10.37 billion and a 26-fold increase in annual profits.
In a
landmark report to the Australian
Federal Government (2000), based on data from interviews with over 500 parents, the authors
reported that «Parents place a higher priority on receiving information about their children's progress than any other type of information they receive from schools.»
Just as the publication of A Nation at Risk caused President Reagan to re-evaluate his education policies, the 25th anniversary of the
landmark report should give
federal policymakers the opportunity to reconsider the current
federal approach, one influential lawmaker said last week.
Considered by many to be a
landmark document, the
report contributed heavily to the lore that American schools were failing; setting the stage for decades of local, state and
federal experimental «reforms» that also embraced Friedman's ideals.
On Wednesday, The Age
reported on a «
landmark study» commissioned by the
federal government that found school autonomy does improve school outcomes.
The President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH)
landmark report, Reinvesting in Arts Education (2011), was the first
federal report on the subject in more than a decade.
The Associated Press (7/19/13)
reports: «A
landmark federal study on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, shows no evidence that chemicals from the natural gas drilling process moved up to contaminate drinking water aquifers at a western Pennsylvania drilling site, the Department of Energy -LSB-...]
News
reports about Facebook's role in the aggressive form of data collection also have raised serious questions about whether the company violated a
landmark consent decree with a
federal watchdog agency designed to prevent privacy violations.
Calma said the ATSISPEP
report now needs a «meaningful implementation plan» but he also expressed hope that the
Federal Government would not «just charge off» with a unilateral response as the Howard Government did with the controversial Northern Territory Intervention in response to the
landmark Little Children are Sacred
report.