25 Years Later
Special coverage marking the 25th anniversary of the landmark report A Nation at Risk is supported in part by a grant from the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation. For more stories, take a look at the previous anniversary collections: 20th | 10th | 5th.
Mathematics
Catching Up on Algebra
The push to ensure that all students, not just the academically gifted, take introductory algebra and do so earlier has gained widespread acceptance in U.S. schools over the quarter-century since A Nation at Risk advocated strengthening graduation requirements in math.
School & District Management
Opinion
An Epoch-Making Report, But What About the Early Grades?
The persistent lack of significant improvement since publication of A Nation at Risk is owing to the unwavering persistence of the very ideas that caused the decline in the first place—the repudiation of a definite academic curriculum in the early grades, argues E.D. Hirsch Jr.
School Choice & Charters
Trends in India: Expanding Middle Class Drives Private Schooling
India's education landscape reveals that its image as a rising force in science and math fields is driven mostly by changes in the private school sector.
Federal
Trends in China: Schooling Shifting With Market Forces
China’s education system has undergone significant changes over the past quarter-century, some brought into classrooms directly by government policy, others swept along by the rising tide of free-market reforms.
Federal
Trends in Japan: Japan Continues Search for Academic Triumph
The education system has long been viewed as a model because of its strong performance on international-comparison tests, but among its citizens, schooling in the nation is seen as inadequate.
Federal
Trends in the European Union: Education Seen Driving Prosperity
The European Union has its share of education successes with Finland outperforming the world on international exams and several other European countries scoring above the international average.
Teaching
Opinion
E Pluribus ... A Tale of Three Systems
One can debate whether a straight line can be traced from the release of A Nation at Risk in 1983 and the signing of the federal No Child Left Behind Act in 2002, argues Howard Gardner.