The conclusion to Reagon’s 1983 report on the nation’s public schools, a report that was called “A Nation at Risk” was written first and then the facts were cherry-picked to support that fake conclusion. America’s traditional public schools have never failed and were never a risk to this country’s future.
In this report by NPR journalist Anya Kamenetz, we learn that the famous 1983 report “A Nation at Risk,” we learn that the Reagan-era Commission “cooked the books.” Kamenetz interviewed two of the original commission members and learned that the commission knew its conclusion in advance, then cherry-picked facts to prove its claim that the schools were ”mired in mediocrity.”
She writes:
“In the context of declining resources and rising child poverty, maintaining steady or slightly improving test scores over decades could be described with other words besides “flat” and “disappointing” — perhaps “surprising” or “heroic.”
“But the narrative established by “A Nation At Risk” still seems to be the one that dominates how we think of the data.
“[Professor James] Guthrie, for one, thinks that’s been, on balance, a good thing, because it brought education to the front and center of the U.S. agenda.
“My view of it in…
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