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Eh. [b]I think that A Nation At Risk was a horrible report[/b], and it led to bad results, which we're still dealing with to this day. The main benefit of A Nation At Risk is to remind people who are nostalgic for the good old days of the 1970s and 1980s that they were not actually the good old days.

However, I don't include the Common Core standards among the bad results of A Nation At risk. I think that the Common Core standards are an improvement.[/quote]

Why do you think it was a bad report?[/quote]

Well, I don't like the alarmism much. Maybe they thought that otherwise nobody would notice the report, or that people needed to be alarmed out of complacency, but I think that the alarmism in A Nation At Risk is a major cause of the public belief, in spite of the data, that public schools are bad and getting worse.

A Nation At Risk also led to a lot of ideological attacks on the basic idea of public school, like tuition vouchers, public schools run by for-profit businesses, attacks on teachers' unions, and corporate education reform. Although maybe all of those things would have happened anyway.[/quote]

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