TakePart – Kevin P. Chavous
“In 1983, the commission that wrote A Nation at Risk made 38 recommendations, including those focused on professionalizing teachers and raising standards and expectations…Now, 30 years later, we spend twice as much on K-12 education and have failed to implement most of the recommendations suggested in the report. Not surprisingly, today the educational outputs of our children are virtually the same as they were back then—if not worse.”(more)