/a-nation-at-risk A Nation at Risk en-US 2021 (c) Education Week Mon, 17 Jul 2023 10:00:00 GMT /policy-politics/opinion-the-education-communitys-views-on-school-improvement-have-fundamentally-changed/2023/07 Since the publication of a seminal report on education, reform measures are more controversial and disruptive. Mon, 17 Jul 2023 10:00:00 GMT /policy-politics/opinion-the-education-communitys-views-on-school-improvement-have-fundamentally-changed/2023/07 /teaching-learning/opinion-the-nation-is-still-at-risk-the-urgency-of-workforce-preparation/2023/04 The labor market needs education to evolve. Career and technical education has an important role to play, writes Anthony P. Carnevale. Fri, 28 Apr 2023 20:52:38 GMT /teaching-learning/opinion-the-nation-is-still-at-risk-the-urgency-of-workforce-preparation/2023/04 /policy-politics/opinion-the-lies-america-tells-itself-about-black-education/2023/04 'A Nation at Risk' created a faux crisis to usher in the right's education agenda, argues Bettina L. Love. Thu, 27 Apr 2023 20:02:25 GMT /policy-politics/opinion-the-lies-america-tells-itself-about-black-education/2023/04 /policy-politics/opinion-a-nation-at-risk-turns-40-its-roots-its-legacy/2023/04 Forty years ago, "A Nation at Risk" was issued—arguably the most influential report on schooling in U.S. history. Mon, 24 Apr 2023 10:00:49 GMT /policy-politics/opinion-a-nation-at-risk-turns-40-its-roots-its-legacy/2023/04 /policy-politics/opinion-from-a-nation-at-risk-to-crt-howd-we-get-here/2022/07 How did a bipartisan school reform movement give way to a series of heated culture clashes? Mon, 25 Jul 2022 10:00:45 GMT /policy-politics/opinion-from-a-nation-at-risk-to-crt-howd-we-get-here/2022/07 /education/opinion-the-flawed-diagnosis-of-a-nation-at-risk/2018/05 To the Editor:Thomas Toch's call in his April 23 Commentary for turning attention back to "A Nation At Risk" diagnosis 35 years ago fails to reflect the fact that the data in that report have long since been proved to be wrong ("When It Comes to Public Education, the Nation Is Still at Risk"). And, that the approach—more requirements and much more testing and sanctions—was pursued for more than three decades with little success and a great deal of damage, especially to schools serving the students most in need of help. Tue, 08 May 2018 22:28:59 GMT /education/opinion-the-flawed-diagnosis-of-a-nation-at-risk/2018/05 /leadership/opinion-a-nation-at-risk-was-fake-news/2018/05 Marc Tucker explores how A Nation at Risk ushered in a damaging era of profound distrust in professional educators based on a false narrative of the decline of American education. Wed, 02 May 2018 14:41:54 GMT /leadership/opinion-a-nation-at-risk-was-fake-news/2018/05 /policy-politics/event-to-explore-american-education-35-years-after-a-nation-at-risk/2018/03 The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute has an event on April 12 in Washington, D.C., that will explore where American education stands 35 years after the landmark report. Fri, 30 Mar 2018 16:07:21 GMT /policy-politics/event-to-explore-american-education-35-years-after-a-nation-at-risk/2018/03 /education/opinion-our-nation-may-still-be-at-risk/2015/01 More than 30 years later we may still be A Nation At Risk but for many different reasons. Tue, 06 Jan 2015 11:35:25 GMT /education/opinion-our-nation-may-still-be-at-risk/2015/01 /teaching-learning/historic-summit-fueled-push-for-k-12-standards/2014/09 Aftershocks continue from the 1989 meeting in Charlottesville, Va., where the White House and the nation's governors took an aggressive turn toward standards-based accountability in public education. Wed, 24 Sep 2014 02:44:08 GMT /teaching-learning/historic-summit-fueled-push-for-k-12-standards/2014/09 /leadership/a-look-back-at-a-nation-at-risk-report/2013/04 Thirty years after "A Nation at Risk" was published, Education Week revisits the groundbreaking report. Fri, 26 Apr 2013 19:24:25 GMT /leadership/a-look-back-at-a-nation-at-risk-report/2013/04 /policy-politics/opinion-a-nation-at-risk-where-are-we-now/2013/04 Education Week Commentary editors look at academic, demographic, and other trends since the landmark report was released 30 years ago. Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:11:52 GMT /policy-politics/opinion-a-nation-at-risk-where-are-we-now/2013/04 /policy-politics/opinion-gaps-persist-30-years-after-a-wake-up-call/2013/04 A Nation at Risk demanded that we all rethink our assumptions about what shapes human potential, who gains access to the best in American education, and how we measure success. Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:30:00 GMT /policy-politics/opinion-gaps-persist-30-years-after-a-wake-up-call/2013/04 /policy-politics/opinion-putting-emphasis-on-teacher-quality/2013/04 Teacher observations have also become more thorough and meaningful in most states than they used to be. Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:25:00 GMT /policy-politics/opinion-putting-emphasis-on-teacher-quality/2013/04 /policy-politics/opinion-doubling-down-on-testing-is-a-failed-wager/2013/04 Teachers need to proactively defend their profession and resist efforts by alternative certification organizations to minimize their practice. Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:20:00 GMT /policy-politics/opinion-doubling-down-on-testing-is-a-failed-wager/2013/04 /policy-politics/opinion-three-decades-of-lies/2013/04 A Nation at Risk had us losing the political and economic races to the Soviet Union and Japan. Did we? No! Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:15:00 GMT /policy-politics/opinion-three-decades-of-lies/2013/04 /policy-politics/opinion-weve-made-progress-but-theres-more-to-do/2013/04 We now judge states, districts, and schools, and, increasingly, those who work in them, not by their resources, qualifications, and intentions but by their effectiveness. Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:45:00 GMT /policy-politics/opinion-weve-made-progress-but-theres-more-to-do/2013/04 /policy-politics/a-nation-at-risk-2013 This special collection, and a new blog that accompanies it, examines the legacy of the landmark report. Tue, 23 Apr 2013 04:00:00 GMT /policy-politics/a-nation-at-risk-2013 /education/opinion-criticism-and-some-praise-of-a-nation-at-risk-coverage/2009/05 To the Editor:Clearly the public schools have failed. Your April 22, 2009, issue contains the second installment of articles this year recounting the 25th anniversary of A Nation at Risk, which told us so. A Nation at Risk appeared in 1983. This is 2009. Unless I was mistaught, or Education Week is using something different than the usual base-10 system, that’s 26 years, not 25. Mon, 11 May 2009 23:52:26 GMT /education/opinion-criticism-and-some-praise-of-a-nation-at-risk-coverage/2009/05 /education/opinion-nation-at-risk-assumptions-are-not-necessarily-todays/2008/10 To the Editor:In recalling the contributions of the 1983 report A Nation at Risk ("A Nation at Risk: 25 Years Later," Sept. 24, 2008), we should not forget that its authors had not bought in to the current assumption of standards reformers that secondary education is solely a preparation for college. The report stated: “We must emphasize that the variety of student aspirations, abilities, and preparations requires that appropriate content be available to satisfy diverse needs.” This statement would be dismissed by current reformers as “the soft bigotry of low expectations.” Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:39:53 GMT /education/opinion-nation-at-risk-assumptions-are-not-necessarily-todays/2008/10 /education/opinion-a-nation-at-risk-for-real/2008/09 I am trying to wrap my head around our current fiscal crisis. Not only am I having a hard time trying to grasp the implications of the still-developing disaster or the proposed interventions, I'm having a hard time just trying to really get a fix on what $700 billion dollars is. This is what it looks like: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:22:09 GMT /education/opinion-a-nation-at-risk-for-real/2008/09 /education/opinion-a-nation-at-risks-25th-missing-the-obvious/2008/05 Both E.D. Hirsch Jr. and Howard Gardner miss the most obvious point in their discussions of A Nation at Risk 25 years later. Tue, 13 May 2008 01:25:15 GMT /education/opinion-a-nation-at-risks-25th-missing-the-obvious/2008/05 /policy-politics/risk-reports-anniversary-prompts-reflection/2008/04 The 25th anniversary of A Nation At Risk should give federal policymakers the opportunity to reconsider the current federal approach, one influential lawmaker said last week. Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:10:00 GMT /policy-politics/risk-reports-anniversary-prompts-reflection/2008/04 /policy-politics/a-nation-at-risk-2008 Education Week's yearlong occasional series about the report that has helped shape U.S. education policy over the past quarter-century. Tue, 22 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT /policy-politics/a-nation-at-risk-2008 /policy-politics/reform-at-five The following stories marked the five-year anniversary of National Commission on Excellence in Education's landmark Nation at Risk report. Fri, 18 Apr 2008 04:00:00 GMT /policy-politics/reform-at-five /policy-politics/events-are-afoot-as-nation-at-risk-anniversary-nears/2008/04 Education policy wonks are gearing up to commemorate the 25th anniversary next week of A Nation at Risk, the report that memorably warned Americans that their society’s educational foundations were “being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity.” Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:21:03 GMT /policy-politics/events-are-afoot-as-nation-at-risk-anniversary-nears/2008/04 /policy-politics/opinion-has-a-nation-at-risk-done-more-harm-than-good/2008/04 Richard Rothstein bats first in a lineup of essays at Cato Unbound commemorating the 25th anniversary of "A Nation At Risk," and asserts that the report has done more harm than good. Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:29:16 GMT /policy-politics/opinion-has-a-nation-at-risk-done-more-harm-than-good/2008/04 /teaching-learning/opinion-our-nation-still-at-risk/2008/03 School director Bruce Shaw writes that too little has changed since "A Nation at Risk" was first published 25 years ago. Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:18:07 GMT /teaching-learning/opinion-our-nation-still-at-risk/2008/03 /policy-politics/opinion-teachers-should-find-a-voice-beyond-unions/2007/04 What other profession gets away with such long-term shoddy performance? Only in a monopoly that has a stranglehold on the way education is delivered is such a lack of accountability possible. Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:34:39 GMT /policy-politics/opinion-teachers-should-find-a-voice-beyond-unions/2007/04 /policy-politics/a-nation-at-risk/2004/09 In 1983, the National Commission on Excellence in Education released a critical report on the state of education, called A Nation at Risk. Fri, 10 Sep 2004 20:24:06 GMT /policy-politics/a-nation-at-risk/2004/09