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Our Schools and Our Future: Are We Still at Risk?
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Paperback. Num Pages: 338 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JNA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 649.
Twenty years ago, the National Commission on Excellence in Education delivered a shocking report called A Nation at Risk, which awakened millions of Americans to a national crisis in primary and secondary education. But today, while reverberations from that report are still being felt, solid and conclusive reforms in American primary and secondary education remain elusive. Why?
In Our Schools and Our Future, the Koret Task Force on K–12 Education looks at the response to the commission's report and analyzes why it produced so much activity and so little improvement. Among their findings, the members of the task force ... Read more
Twenty years ago, the National Commission on Excellence in Education delivered a shocking report called A Nation at Risk, which awakened millions of Americans to a national crisis in primary and secondary education. But today, while reverberations from that report are still being felt, solid and conclusive reforms in American primary and secondary education remain elusive. Why?
In Our Schools and Our Future, the Koret Task Force on K–12 Education looks at the response to the commission's report and analyzes why it produced so much activity and so little improvement. Among their findings, the members of the task force ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Hoover Institution Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Stanford, United States
ISBN
9780817939229
SKU
V9780817939229
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Ref
99-24
About Peterson
Paul E. Peterson is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a member of the Koret Task force on K-12 Education. Peterson is the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government and the director of the Program on Education, Policy and Governance at Harvard University. His current research interests include educational policy, federalism, and urban policy, and he is currently ... Read more
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