A Report's Forgotten Message: Mobilize
America is once again in crisis mode. We feel the effects of an economy that seems not just in recession, but disintegrating. Settled certainties, assumptions, and expectations are crumbling—causing anxiety, yes, but also opening up opportunities for new directions that were unachievable in more-normal times.
As the situation worsens, our new president has urged that "all of us" get involved in finding solutions. It remains to be seen how well we rise to this challenge, particularly in the fundamentally important area of education.
The last time the nation was in crisis mode about education was in 1983, when the alarm-bell report A Nation at Risk warned us that America was facing a dire emergency that amounted to "unthinking, unilateral educational disarmament." We were producing "a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a nation and a...
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