 | Tim Carman - 2005 - 244 หน้า
...an unfriendlv Ioreign power had attempted to impose on America the medlocre educational perIormance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act ol war," and it goes on to say we have in eIIect "been committing an act of unthinking, unilateral... | |
 | Stephen Gorard, Beng Huat See, Emma Smith, Patrick White - 2006 - 210 หน้า
...and it forcefully condemned the 'rising tide of mediocrity' that was eroding the nation's schools: 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). It was to become one of the most influential... | |
 | Jane Fowler Morse - 2012 - 369 หน้า
...future as a Nation and a people . . . 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. . . . If only to keep and improve on the slim competitive edge we still retain in world markets, we... | |
 | Algernon Austin - 2006 - 306 หน้า
...report widely condemned the educational system for producing "a rising tide of mediocrity." It declared, "If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose...today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war." These remarks are from the first page of the report. As Berliner and Biddle note: Never before had... | |
 | Paul Manna - 2006 - 228 หน้า
...inaccurate overstatement, the commission's report, titled A Nation at Risk, began in military-like terms: "If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose...today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking, unilateral educational disarmament" (National... | |
 | Fred A. Baughman Jr. - 2006 - 289 หน้า
...Commission on Excellence in Education stated in 1983, in words that ring with even more truth today, "If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose...today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war." A quote from Carl Jung at the beginning of The Magic Feather is a wonderful message for diagnosis and... | |
 | Morley D. Glicken - 2007 - 532 หน้า
...findings, A Nation atRisk( 1983), include the following statements, many of which remain true today: 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 even squandered the gains in student... | |
 | Robert Wickes - 2006 - 337 หน้า
...at Risk: The Imperative for Education Reform. One scathing sentence summed it up: "If an unfriendly power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre...today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. " When the Hoover Institution's Koret Task Force on K-12 education released its findings on the status... | |
 | John Harmon McElroy - 2006 - 282 หน้า
...report was this: "If an unfriendly 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."'2 In other words, had the Soviet Union during the Cold War been given the chance to design the... | |
 | Neal P. McCluskey - 2007 - 226 หน้า
...on Excellence in Education, and it shocked the American public with a force not seen since Sputnik. "If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose...today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war," A Nation at Risk famously intoned, going on to explain that if the nation kept on its present educational... | |
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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. 
