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40 years ago 'A Nation at Risk' warned of a 'rising tide of mediocrity' in US schools – has anything changed?

  • Written by Morgan Polikoff, Associate Professor of Education, University of Southern California
40 years ago 'A Nation at Risk' warned of a 'rising tide of mediocrity' in US schools – has anything changed?Academic gains made over the past four decades have begun to erode.Troy Aossey/The Image Bank via Getty Images

The National Commission on Excellence in Education’s release of a report titled “A Nation at Risk” in 1983 was a pivotal point in the history of American education. The report used dire language, lamenting that “the...

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