April foolishness: The 20th anniversary of a nation at risk

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 84, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 616-621

  Bracey, Gerald W ^a,b  

^a High Scope Educational Research Foundation   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0042663429     PISSN: 00317217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003172170308400815     Document Type: Review

References (18)

1. Quoted in Terrel H. Bell, The Thirteenth Man: A Reagan Cabinet Memoir (New York: Free Press, 1988) p. 29.
2. Ibid., p. 131.
3. Joseph Kraft, "A Note to Conservatives: Come Off It," Washington Post, 3 May 1983, p. A-19;
4. William F. Buckley, Jr., "The Obvious Solution: Tuition Tax Credits," Washington Post, 3 May 1983, p. A-19;
5. and Russell Baker, "Beset by Mediocrity," New York Times, 30 April 1983, p. A-23.
6. Peter Applebome, "Dire Predictions Deflated: Johnny Can Add After All," New York Times, 11 June 1983, p. A-31.
7. Lawrence J. Cremin, Popular Education and Its Discontents (New York: Harper & Row, 1989), pp. 102-3.
8. Louis V. Gerstner, "Our Schools Are Failing: Do We Care?," New York Times, 27 May 1994, p. A-27.
9. Quoted in Julie Miller, "Report Questioning 'Crisis' in Education Triggers an Uproar," Education Week, 9 October 1991;
10. and Diane Ravitch, letter to the editor, Education Week, 30 October 1991.
11. The David Kearns quote comes from a personal communication from Sandia engineers, and the Education Week article stated that "Administration officials, particularly Mr. Kearns, reacted angrily at the meeting."
12. The report finally appeared in full in 1993 in the May/June issue of the Journal of Educational Research under the title "Perspectives on Education in America." Its authors were Sandia engineers C. C. Carson, R. M. Huelskamp, and T. D. Woodall.
13. Archie Lapointe, Nancy Mead, and Janice Askew, Learning Mathematics (Princeton, N.J.: Educational Testing Service, 1992);
14. and Archie Lapointe, Janice Askew, and Nancy Mead, Learning Science (Princeton, N.J.: Educational Testing Service, 1992).
15. Mary Jordan, "Students Test Below Average in World, U.S. Fares Poorly in Math, Science," Washington Post, 6 February 1992, p. A-1.
16. New York Times, 31 January 1996.
17. Quoted in Keith B. Richburg, "Japanese Education: Admired but Not Easily Imported," Washington Post, 19 October 1985, p. A-1.
18. Harvey Prokop, "Intelligence, Motivation, and the Quantity and Quality of Academic Work and Their Impacts on the Learning of Students," a critique of the National Commission on Excellence in Education seminar, "The Student's Role in Learning," submitted to the National Commission on Excellence in Education, 1982.