A NATION STILL AT RISK

On the 20th anniversary of the 1983 National Commission on Excellence in Education report, "A Nation at Risk," the only news media attention given to the continued sorry state of education in America was a shallow report by NBC News anchor, Tom Brokaw about functionally illiterate adults aired on Dateline August 8, 2003. Indeed, it is simply unconscionable that little to nothing has been done to resolve the decades-long education crisis that has robbed generations of students of their education and is still leaving so many high school graduates -- and even college graduates -- functionally illiterate.

The only overview of what has been going on since the "Nation at Risk," report was aired on C-Span Book TV, August 9, 2003, in which a panel of education experts from Harvard and the Hoover Institution discussed the issues and their collaborative books...