Taking the Measure of American Education Reform: An Assessment of the Education ReportsHigh School: A Report of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Ernest L. BoyerAcademic Preparation for College: What Students Need to Know and Be Able to Do. College BoardA Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform. National Commission on Excellence in EducationAction for Excellence: A Comprehensive Plan to Improve Our Schools. Education Commission of the States Task Force on Education for Economic GrowthMaking the Grade. Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on Federal Elementary and Secondary Education Policy

1984 ◽  
Vol 92 (3) ◽  
pp. 314-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert Shanker
Keyword(s):  
Education Reform ◽  
Task Force ◽  
National Commission ◽  
American Education ◽  
Carnegie Foundation ◽  
Elementary And Secondary Education ◽  
Comprehensive Plan ◽  
Nation At Risk ◽  
Education Commission ◽  
Twentieth Century Fund

One Point of View: Increased Time in School—Increased Learning?

1985 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
Eugene D. Nichols
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
American People ◽  
National Commission ◽  
Educational Performance ◽  
American Education ◽  
Nation At Risk ◽  
The Status ◽  
A Nation At Risk ◽  
Excellence In Education

The years 1983 and 1984 saw several publications aimed at arousing the public's conscience about the status of American education. The headliner among them was the often quoted accusation directed at ourselves, the American people: “If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre 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.” (A Nation at Risk, National Commission on Excellence in Education, April 1983, p.5)

Research Advisory Committee Report: Mathematics Education Reform and Mathematics Education Research: Opportunities, Obstacles, and Obligations

1990 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 287-292
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
National Research Council ◽  
National Commission ◽  
Committee Report ◽  
National Council ◽  
Nation At Risk ◽  
Education Community ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Excellence In Education

The mathematics education community is engaged in a level of refonn activity of remarkable breadth and intensity. This most recent context of educational refom1 was established in the early 1980s, in part through reports such as A Nation at Risk (National Commission on Excellence in Education. 1983). The content-based counterparts of these documents include the Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 1989a), Everybody Coums (National Research Council, 1989), Project 2061: Science for All Americans (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1989), and the forthcoming Professional Standards for Teaching Mathematics (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 1989b).

Equality, Liberty, and Education

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Kiel
Keyword(s):  
Education Reform ◽  
Double Helix ◽  
Compulsory Education ◽  
Education Law ◽  
Student Diversity ◽  
American Education ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
Educational Challenges ◽  
The Future ◽  
1960S And 1970S

This chapter traces the arc of American education, describing how the tension between liberty and equality has shaped education law and policy every step of the way. The chapter begins by exploring the origins of American education, including the equality-minded adoption of compulsory education and common schools and the liberty-minded desire for parents to control elements of their children’s education. Next, the chapter expands to consideration of equality and liberty in the education of groups. This includes the equality revolutions of the 1960s and 1970s during which schooling became more inclusive of multiple groups of students, and also the liberty-based backlash to those revolutions pursuing greater local control and self-determination. The chapter then highlights the liberty and equality-based tensions impacting contemporary education reform, such as the standards and choice movements. Finally, the chapter looks to the future, arguing that advances in technology, increasing student diversity, and unprecedented flux in the structure of American education will force continued balancing of the values of liberty and equality. Ultimately, the chapter argues that these core democratic impulses—liberty and equality—form a double helix at the core of many of the conflicts in American education law and policy and that management of the relationship between them will continue to drive how Americans respond to educational challenges of the future.

Anti-intellectualism and education reform

2020 ◽  
Vol 101 (7) ◽  
pp. 10-16
Author(s):  
Johann N. Neem
Keyword(s):  
Education Reform ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Central Place ◽  
American Education ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
Liberal Arts And Sciences

It is a strange and sobering experience to read Hofstadter in our own anti-intellectual era. If anything, left-leaning intellectuals’ sense of alienation has increased since the 1990s. To challenge anti-intellectualism in American education, the liberal arts and sciences will need to be restored to their central place in the curriculum.

Betsy DeVos’s Education Reform Agenda: What Principals—and Their Publics—Need to Know

2018 ◽  
Vol 102 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie S. Kaplan ◽  
William A. Owings
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
School Choice ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
Charter School ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
American Education ◽  
Reform Agenda ◽  
Track Record ◽  
Policy Goals ◽  
Education Leaders

Betsy DeVos, the new U.S. Secretary of Education, has a reform agenda to advance school choice. Her track record includes enabling charter school growth in Michigan at taxpayers’ expense with little oversight or accountability. Although an effective advocate, DeVos represents a broader policy movement to privatize American education, much of it happening beneath public awareness. Understanding Ms. DeVos’s policy goals, how the President and Congress are supporting these, and how privatization is occurring in states can help principals and education leaders recognize the stakes, learn what to watch for, and take appropriate actions to preserve and strengthen America’s public schools.

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