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Push for Reform ‘Dying,’ Says Futrell

March 30, 1988 1 min read
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The president of the nation’s largest teachers’ union last week charged that the education reforms inspired by A Nation at Risk are “dying on the vine,’' and placed much of the blame on the Reagan Administration.

The Administration released the much-cited commission report, which contained a stinging critique of the nation’s schools and recommendations for improving them, five years ago next month.

A version of this article appeared in the March 30, 1988 edition of Education Week as Push for Reform ‘Dying,’ Says Futrell

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