...country faced if the academic achievement of schoolchildren did not improve. The commissioners opined, "If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose...today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war." Assertions that the United States was committing unilateral disarmament by failing to educate its children...

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

...eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a Nation and a people. ... If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose...today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have allowed this to happen to ourselves. The report declared in just as apocalyptic...

...strong, and condemns the 'rising tide of mediocrity' that was eroding the American public school system: If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose...today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. (NCEE 1983,3) The rhetoric is little different today. American students still occupy a mid-table position...

...Terrell Bell. The report concluded that the education system was producing a generation of mediocrities. "If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose...today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war" (National Commission on Excellence in Education, 1983, p. 1). The report called for policymakers to...

...Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform. Found in this report are the infamous words: "If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose...exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war."1 These words were the basis for an educational revolution. Shock waves rolled through the educational...

...education issued its landmark report, A Nation at Risk. "If an unfriendly foreign power," the report said, "had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational...exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war."4 Teachers in rural schools were poorly prepared through the 1960s. The school buildings were...

...a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future äs a Nation and a people (...). If any unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on...performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it äs an act of war" (National Commission on Excellence in Education 1983: 5). Als Ursachen für die...

...Reagan appointed a Blue Panel Commission that released "A Nation At Risk." In the report, it states, "If an unfriendly, foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre education performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war." And that was...

...Reagan appointed a Blue Panel Commission that released "A Nation At Risk." In the report, it states, "If an unfriendly, foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre education performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war." And that was...