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Download full textThomas B. Fordham Foundation, Washington, DC. – 1999
In 1983 the National Commission on Excellence in Education declared the United States "A Nation at Risk" because of inadequate education. A decade and a half later, the United States is still at risk because U.S. schools are failing children. Dropout rates have declined, and college attendance has risen, but student achievement has…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
