The Chronicle of Higher Education discusses a new report, A Stagnant Nation: Why American Schools Are Still at Risk, which says that “stunningly few” of the recommendations from the 1983 report “A Nation At Risk” have been adopted:
The chief obstacle to school reform has not been a lack of knowledge of how to improve elementary and secondary education, but political resistance to necessary change, according to the analysis by Strong American Schools, a public-awareness campaign established by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors and supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation.
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