Forbes – USAF Col. (Ret) John A. Warden III and Patrick J. McCloskey
“Public K-12 education provides an expensive lesson in bad measures, with serious national security repercussions. By the beginning of the Reagan administration, it became obvious something was seriously amiss in America’s public schools. The federal Department of Education commissioned a report, which was published in 1983, entitled “A Nation at Risk” concluding that ‘the educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a Nation and a people.'”(more)