Democracy at Risk: The Need for a New Federal Policy in Education

"The Forum for Education and Democracy has chosen the 25th anniversary of the publication of "A Nation at Risk", the last clarion call for federal attention to educational policy, to call for a new federal role in supporting our schools." This is their new report: "Democracy at Risk: The Need for a New Federal Policy in Education."

"As practitioners, researchers, and policy analysts who have long been involved in developing successful schools, we are gravely concerned about the inability of the current federal role to support the breadth, depth, and quality of education our children need for a 21st century life — one in which they will need to solve problems we cannot yet fully envision, using knowledge and technologies that have not yet been invented."