
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 Imperative for Educational Reform” was produced by the National Commission on Excellence in Education at the request of Terrel H. Bell, then secretary of education.
The scathing report warned that our future as a nation and people was under threat because of our eroding educational foundations. “If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today,” it said, “we might well have viewed it as an act of war.”
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