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From:Education Next (Vol. 3, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedA Nation at Risk stunned the establishment and captivated the public when it was released 20 years ago. This was something that hadn't been seen before in American education--a startling indictment of a system that most...
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From:Education Next (Vol. 3, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedA NATION AT RISK foreshadowed the modern accountability movement. While the word "accountability" never appears in Risk, its call for higher academic standards and its focus on student achievement as the main barometer...
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From:Education Next (Vol. 3, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedTWENTY YEARS AGO, the National Commission on Excellence in Education delivered a thunderbolt in the form of a report called A Nation at Risk. Risk awakened millions of Americans to a crisis in the nation's system of...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 65, Issue 8)During an annual faculty and staff institute, my colleagues and I were challenged by our college president to read a seminal report published by the U.S. Department of Education in 1983. "A Nation at Risk: The...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 62, Issue 30)The report's title gave away its warning: In "A Nation at Risk," a national commission said public schools were "being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a nation and a people." Its...
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From:Education Next (Vol. 3, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe core of A Nation at Risk was its concern that America's public schools were not challenging enough to prepare students for a future built on technology and information. Students, Risk said, were not taking enough...
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From:Education Next (Vol. 3, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWITH THE PERSPECTIVE OF TWO DECADES, it is now apparent that A Nation at Risk was the most important education reform document of the 20th century. It captured the attention not only of educators and political and...
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From:European Social PolicyPeer-ReviewedBy 2020, at least 50% of 15-year-olds should know one foreign language and 75% should study a second one. This is one of the measures proposed, on 20 November, by the European Commission to improve education and...
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From:The Cato Journal (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedK-12 education policy has recently received much scrutiny from policyanakers, taxpayers, parents, and students. Reformers have often cited increases in spending with little noticeable gain in test scores, coupled with...
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From:Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law (Vol. 44, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedEducation is central to every country's growth and sustainability, but it is particularly important in a war-torn and developing nation like Afghanistan. The education sector in Afghanistan has made drastic strides...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 58, Issue 07)Byline: David McNeill Tokyo -- When Japan was hit by a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami in March, casualties at the nation's universities were mercifully low. The reason: Campuses were mostly empty as...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 53, Issue 16)Byline: FRANCIS X. ROCCA Rome -- A 49-year-old tax accountant might seem an unlikely poster child for national controversy. But as a law student at Rome's Guglielmo Marconi Online University, Lanfranco Fichera is a...
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From:Education (Vol. 123, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn the initial stages of the school reform movement, little, if any, attention was focused on the major leadership and collaborative role that professional school counselors play in ensuring the success of children....
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From:Leadership (Vol. 32, Issue 1)More than a hundred years ago, a highly centralized educational bureaucracy was born out of the successful industrial management model--high school. This model focused on an approach that emphasized time and...
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From:Journal of School Leadership (Vol. 25, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn this qualitative study, we explored how accreditation processes as routinized action can retain stability while promoting school reform efforts. We identified three secondary schools (two high schools, one middle)...
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From:Nature (Vol. 534, Issue 7609) Peer-ReviewedMy eight-year-old son came home from school disappointed last week. When asked the test question "How can we save the environment from pollution?", he had tried to write the answer in his own way. This did not go down...
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From:The Science Teacher (Vol. 79, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedThis is an exciting time to be in science education. New science standards are being developed by a group of science educators from across the country, working with 26 states in a process managed by Achieve, Inc., a...
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From:District Administration (Vol. 49, Issue 5)TILTING AT WINDMILLS: School Reform, San Diego, and America's Race to Renew Public Education HARVARD EDUCATION PRESS This book is an account of Alan Bersin's superintendency of the San Diego City Schools between...
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From:Childhood Education (Vol. 89, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe above events took place over the course of only one month. They are but a few examples of the continuous challenges that Pakistani children and education face as a result of human callousness and natural forces....