“We have placed too much confidence in school reforms that affected only six hours a day of a child’s life…. In the face of many negative influences on our children that come from outside the school, we have done well to maintain our high school completion rate and our level of performance on achievement measures…. We have foolishly concluded that any problems with the levels of academic achievement have been caused by faulty schools staffed by inept teachers. School leaders and others must turn increasingly to the parents, homes and communities.”
Terrel Bell
Former Secretary of Education
Under Ronald Reagan
These words reflect a change of heart by the man most responsible for the nonsense in
“A Nation at Risk.”
Bell’s words first appeared in Phi Delta Kappen in April 1993.
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