Reagan+Primary+Sources

=Primary Source Artifacts for the Reagan Years=


 * =[|A Nation at Risk] [[image:KeefeM20070804[1].jpg width="355" height="755" align="right"]]=

One of the most influential documents of the Reagan years was the result of a commission created by Reagan's first Secretary of Education, Terrel H. Bell: the National Commission on Excellence in Education. The committeee was given 18 months from the day of their first meeting to study the state of of education in the United States and come up with a summary assessment and reccommendations. The report came out on August 26, 1981, and immediately made headlines The alarm it caused in the mind of a panicked nation set the wheels in motion for the primary focus in education to move away from issues of equity in favor of excellence, all in the name of survival in an increasingly global arena of competetiveness.

= Commentary and Rebuttals to //A Nation at Risk//: =
 * ==[|Edutopia: Fallout from a Flawed Report]==


 * ==[|Gerald Bracey:Propaganda:]==


 * ==[|Education Week Article]==


 * ==[|Bennett et al: A Nation Still at Risk]==


 * ==[|A Nation at Risk-This time for Real]==

=Financial History:=
 * =[|An Examination of the banking crises in the 1980's and 1990's]=