Archive for April 8, 2008
Why School?
April 8, 2008A Nation at Risk (25 years later)
April 8, 2008There are many reasons to improve American schools, but declining achievement and international competition are not good arguments for doing so. Asking schools to improve dramatically without support from other social and economic institutions is bound to fail, as a quarter century of experience since A Nation at Risk has demonstrated. (Richard Rothstein, A Nation [...]
