Letters

To the Editor:

Education Week is to be congratulated for its excellent and thoughtful commentary on the 20th anniversary of A Nation at Risk ( "Nation at Risk: The Next Generation," April 23, 2003.) Your readers might like to know that the Public Agenda survey data cited in the section's article "Less Than Awesome" are available in Public Agenda's new report, "Where We Are Now: 12 Things You Need to Know about Public Opinion and Public Schools," which was funded by Washington Mutual.

The report provides never-before-available analysis drawn from more than 25 major opinion studies on where major stakeholders in education— parents, students, teachers, school leaders, employers, and college professors— stand on a wide...