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 recommendations for raising academic standards, which gained widespread and sustained attention, led many colleges to develop programs to improve the quality of teacher education. In 2003, The Chronicle Review published a commission member’s 20th-anniversary essay on the report’s lasting significance.
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