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A Nation At Risk +40

Forty years after the landmark education report, a Hoover Institution project details the breadth of reforms inspired by its publication and the state of America’s school system four decades later.

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40 Years After ‘A Nation at Risk,’ Using Schools as Local Laboratories

Eric Bettinger

Superintendent’s View: Designing a Learner-Centered Ecosystem in Kansas City

M. Jeremy Tucker

40 Years After ‘A Nation At Risk,’ Fixing Our Classrooms Through School Funding

Eric Hanushek

Improving America’s Schools: Why It’s Long Past Time to Rethink Curriculum

Robert Pondiscio

Florida’s Education System is Proof that Accountability Works

Manny Diaz

Improving Our Schools: How Have Standards-Based Reforms Succeeded (and Failed)?

Michael J. Petrilli

Reforming Schools and Helping Students: Key Lessons From Newark, New Jersey

Cami Anderson

Key to Improving America’s Schools: Rethinking School Staffing & Teacher Quality

Thomas S. Dee

‘A Nation At Risk’ Turns 40: How America Can Reinvigorate Its Teacher Workforce

Michael Hansen

National School Choice Week: Experts Discuss America’s Evolving Education System

The 74

40 Years of School Choice: How American Education Is Being Reshaped

John D. Singleton

Supporting the ‘Whole Child’ at School, in the 40 Years since ‘A Nation at Risk’

Maria D. Fitzpatrick

40 Years After ‘A Nation at Risk’: The Imperative for High-Quality Pre-K

Deborah Stipek

A Nation At Risk, 40 Years Later: How Have (and Haven’t) Schools Changed?

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40 Years after ‘A Nation at Risk’: What Worked, and Meeting the Challenges Ahead

Stephen Bowen