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...current fiasco in Panama demonstrates the Reagan administration's lack of concern with democracy, and its promotion of instability and ruin. As early as 1972, the U.S. government knew that General Noriega was linked to the drug trade. In 1985, the U.S. Army Southern Command in Panama wrote a report citing the involvement of Panama Defense Forces in the drug trade. The evidence was so strong that several senior United States officials tried--and failed--to turn American policy against General Noriega...
...government documents have raised more hackles or lit more fires than the 1983 Department of Education report titled A Nation at Risk. The survey sounded an alarm over the "rising tide of mediocrity" sweeping American schools. It warned that had this mediocrity been imposed by a foreign power, "we might well have viewed it as an act of war." Overnight, the document became a spur for nationwide school reform...
Last week at the White House, on the fifth anniversary of A Nation at Risk, Secretary of Education William Bennett presented President Reagan with a sequel that is likely to be even more controversial. Titled American Education: Making It Work, the new report tries to assess what the reform movement has achieved during the past half decade. "There has been undeniable progress," proclaimed the Secretary. "Students have made modest gains." But, he concluded, "we are still at risk...
...small increase (16 points out of 1,600) in SAT scores, ending a long, downward slide; a jump from 76% to 86% in the percentage of high school seniors passing American history; and new or strengthened homework policies among at least one-fourth of all high schools. But the report's downbeat observations quickly overshadowed those cheering facts. Items...
...report has angered many educators, who resent Bennett's emphasis on the negative, his slighting of the achievements of the past five years, and his finger pointing. "Sarcastic, belittling, patronizing," declared John Brademas, president of New York University and formerly a leading education advocate in Congress. California Superintendent of Public Instruction Bill Honig notes that the number of students scoring above 450 in math and 500 in verbal on SATs has jumped 18% since 1983. "If this was the steel industry and we had an 18% gain in productivity, it would make headlines," says Honig. The downbeat report, he adds...