...Risk, stating: "[T]he educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a nation and a people." Many feel that the commission's conclusions continue to be as accurate and timely as they were a decade...

...industry, science, and technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. ... If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose...educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war." Much progress has been made since the Commission's report, but...

...and business, we have begun to turn back what our education commission 5 years ago called "a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a nation and a people." Well, we've taken a firm and uncompromising stand against drugs in our nation's schools. We've encouraged...

...America...." That report, A Nation at Risk, was published in 1983 and contained the grim observation that "if an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose...educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war." The report called for widespread, systemic reform and made four...

...Nation is at risk. The educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future...educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. We have dismantled essential support systems which helped make...

...generation ago has begun to occur — others are matching and surpassing our educational attainments. If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose...educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have allowed this to happen to ourselves. We...

...dishonest. We can only applaud the National Commission on Excellence in Education when it declares: "If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose...educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war * * * We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking,...

...on Excellence in Education, "a nation at risk." And we keep hearing by now the famous quote from it, "If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose...educational performance that exists today, we might well view it as an act of war." Now, this Commission did not specifically address bilingual education...

...future. The first page of our Commission Report1 carries these sentences: "Our nation is at risk * ' * if an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose...educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as a act of war. As it stands, we have allowed this to happen to ourselves. We...

...Education expressed a dismal view of our nation's educational system stating and I quote from that report, "If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose...mediocre educational performance that exists today, we may well have viewed it as an act of war." I believe if we neglect our biomedical establishment we...