Sentences with phrase «unfriendly foreign power»

The current era of corporate education reform began with the 1983 publication of the Reagan administration's report A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Education Reform, prepared by a committee of prominent professors, politicians, teachers, and business executives.5 Not only did the report attack many of the equity - minded federal education reforms that preceded it, A Nation at Risk also manufactured a narrative of public education in crisis, steeped in the language of Cold War military paranoia: «If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war,» the authors wrote.

«If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war,» the report said.

A memorable line from «A Nation at Risk» reads, «If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.

Thirty years ago, the authors of A Nation at Risk told us: «If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.

If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war....

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Business Secretary John Hutton told the Labour Party conference that clean coal technology and a «renaissance in nuclear power» were needed if we weren't to leave ourselves at the mercy of gas imports from unstable and unfriendly foreign regimes.