...Americans has outstripped its parents in education, in literacy, and in economic attainment. For the first time in the history of our country, the educational...equal, will not even approach, those of their parents. Progress has become decline. An historical profile of academic achievement in the United States shows...

...Americans has outstripped its parents in education, in literacy, and in economic attainment. For the first time in the history of our country, the educational...equal, will not even approach, those of their parents. Progress has become decline. An historical profile of academic achievement in the United States shows...

...Literary Hoax. Copperman charged that "for the first time in the history of our country, the education skills of one generation will not surpass, will not...equal, will not even approach those of their parents." Leading national magazines periodically feature articles whose titles and content refer in stark terms...

...Americans has out-stripped its parents in education, in literacy, and in economic attainment. For the first time in the history of our country, the educational...equal, will not even approach, those of their parents." The risk of American educational inferiority to international educational standards (of such countries...

...Education, the quality of teaching in our public schools is viewed as woefully inadequate: "For the first time in the history of our country, the educational...skills of one generation will not surpass — will not even equal — will not even approach, those of our parents."6 The great educational heydey of post-Sputnik...

...Americans has outstripped its parents in education, in literacy, and in economic attainment. For the first time in the history of our country, the educational...equal, will not even approach those of their parents. The Commission goes on to say, which is their own statement, and we have documentation from several...

...Education, the quality of teaching in our public schools is viewed as woefully inadequate: "For the first time in the history of our country, the educational...skills of one generation will not surpass — will not even equal — will not even approach, those of parents." ' "The great educational heyday of post-Sputnik...

...state of public education and pronounced it abysmal. The commission regretfully observed that "for the first time in the history of our country, the educational...equal, will not even approach, those of their parents." 1 'National Commission on Excellence in Education, A Nation at Risk (Washington, DC: US Government...

...the words of one analyst cited by the 1983 National Commission on Excellence in Education, "For the first time in the history of our country, the educational...equal, will not even approach, those of their parents. " Recent trends indicate that each year the typical American child is increasingly likely to be born...

...mediocrity that threatens our very future as a Nation and a people," 58 and grimly predicted that "for the first time in the history of our country, the educational...equaL will not even approach, those of their parents," 5v The commission assigned the blame to several deleterious developments in contemporary education....