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A Nation At Risk: 30 Years Later
April 26, 2013
Thirty years ago, A Nation at Risk was
released to a surprised country. Suddenly,
Americans woke
up to learn that SAT
scores were plummeting and children were learning
a lot less than before.
This report
became a turning point in modern U.S. education
history and marked the beginning of
a
new focus on excellence, achievement, and results.
Due in large part to this
report, we now judge a school by whether its
students are learning rather
than
how
much
money
is
going
into
it,
what
its
programs
look
like,
or
its
earnest
intentions.
Education
reform
today
is
serious
about
standards,
quality,
assessment,
accountability
and
benchmarking
—by
school,
district,
state
and
nation.
This
is
new
since
1983
and
it’s
very
important.
Yet
we still have many miles to traverse before we
sleep. Our students still need to learn far more
and our schools need to become far more
effective.
To recall the
impact of A Nation at Risk these past three
decades and to reflect on what lies ahead,
watch this short retrospective
developed by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and
the American
Enterprise Institute: A
Nation at Risk: Thirty Years Later.
美国《
国家风险》报告发布
30
年
教育
危机依然存在
据美联社报道，
30
年前，
里根总统政府时期的美国教育部发布
《国家风险
》
（
A Nation at Risk
）
报告，
为美国敲响了警钟，
该报告
阐述了美国未来教育的不足以及为避免危机发生而应采取
的措施。
报告警告说
学校没有对学生未来的前途做足准备
，
而
美国将为此遭受损失。
因此，
报告
呼吁美国学校对教授学生知识的方式和内容进行彻
底修正，
并发起教育改革运
动；
此外<
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还建议
校方与教师签订每年
11
个月的工作
合同，以利于教师在暑期备课
。
这一
30
年
前发布的风险报告恰巧反映了美国今天的教育现状
，数据显示，
25%
的美国人没
有高中学历，
年轻人
中完成本科学业的比例也落后于其他国家。
而且，
美国学生的数
学成绩
也落后于其他国家的学生，他们对新技术领域也不擅长。
布鲁金斯学会布朗教育政策中心主任拉斯
·
怀特赫斯特（
Russ
Whi
tehurst
）表示，
30
年前发<
/p>
布的这份国家风险报告
颇具先见之明
，认
为
“
它
强调了技术发挥着日益重要作用
，同时全球
化应当成为必修课的主题之一
。
”
此外，专家们还呼吁将每学年学生
在校时间从
180
天提高
到
220<
/p>
天
，同时
为提高
“
专业竞争力
”
建议增加教师的工资待
遇
。
'A Nation At
Risk': 30 Years After
Report, Schools
Remain Mostly
Unchanged
WASHINGTON
--
U.S.
students
are
falling
behind
their
international
rivals.
Young
people
aren't
adept
at
new
technology.
America's
economy
will
suffer
if schools don't step
up their game.
Nation
at
Risk,
the
report
issued
30
years
ago
this
week
by
President
Ronald
Reagan's
Education
Department,
was
meant
as
a
wake-up
call
for
the
country.
It spelled out where the United States was coming
up short in
education and what steps
could be taken to avert a crisis.
But
its warnings still reverberate today, with 1 in 4
Americans failing
to
earn
a
high
school
degree
on
time
and
the
U.S.
lagging
other
countries
in the percentage
of young people who complete college.
children
are
taught
and
sparked
the
school
reform
movement
in
the
country.
Current reform
advocates such Michelle Rhee, the former District
of
Columbia schools chancellor, and
former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush can trace
their work back to the report.
opened
the
genie
from
the
bottle
and
said,
`You
aren't
doing
so
well,'
said
Xavier
University
of
Louisiana
President
Norman
C.
Francis,
a
member
of the commission
that produced the dire warning.
about
the
fact
that
we
wrote
something
that
needed
to
be
said.
We
had
the
research. And we hoped
we would have a greater measure of
return.
At times, President Barack Obama
has seemed to take his cues from the
report.
2009,
calling for education overhaul to keep pace with
other counties.
resources
that
are
unmatched
anywhere
in
the
world,
we
have
let
our
grades
slip,
our schools
crumble,
our
teacher
quality
fall
short
and
other
nations outpace us,
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