A Nation Reformed? by David Gordon
On April 26, 1983, the blue-ribbon National Commission on Excellence in Education issued ""an open letter to the American people"" on the state of our nation's schools. ""A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform"" was one of many such reports that year, but its title and incendiary language set it apart almost immediately. We were warned of a ""rising tide of mediocrity"" in our schools that imperiled the nation's future. The symbolic opening salvo in a two-decade-long struggle to improve schools, A Nation at Risk helped put education reform at the top of the national agenda. A Nation Reformed? takes stock of twenty years of school reform. Was the nation really ever ""at risk"" and, if so, is it still? Which reforms have made a difference and which haven't? And where do we go from here?
David J. Gordon is professor emeritus of English at Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center. He is author of five books, most recently Literary Atheism.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781891792083 |
| ISBN 10 | 1891792083 |
| Title | A Nation Reformed? |
| Author | David Gordon |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Harvard Educational Publishing Group |
| Year published | 2003-01-30 |
| Number of pages | 232 |
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