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Title: The Post 1983 Era: Size and Composition of the US Population and the US Student Population
Citation Type: Book, Section
Publication Year: 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-89422-5
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-89423-2_7
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Abstract: In 1983, then Secretary of Education, T.H. Bell, proposed convening a national panel on the state of education in America. In his opinion, the American educational system was in complete disarray. He approached Ronald Reagan to convene the panel, but Reagan refused and so Bell took it upon himself to organize the group. The panel he chose was comprised of members from the business, political, and academic elite. The primary author of the final report was education writer, James J. Harvey, who would later admit that their views were misguided because educational reform is more complicated than they had anticipated (Bauman 2003). A Nation at Risk, the 1983 Report generated from Bell’s efforts, has become a watershed document about education, rivaling Abraham Flexner’s 1910 report on US Medical schools, and started a process of neo-liberal policies aimed . . .
Url: http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-319-89423-2_7
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Authors: Verdugo, Richard R.
Editors: Verdugo, Richard R.
Pages: 273-316
Volume Title: American Education and the Demography of the US Student Population, 1880 – 2014
Publisher: Springer
Publisher Location: Cham
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Data Collections: IPUMS USA, IPUMS CPS
Topics: Education, Other, Population Mobility and Spatial Demography
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