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Reagan, Ronald – National Forum: Phi Kappa Phi Journal, 1984
Adding more funds to American education will not accomplish the needed reform. Needed are restoration of discipline, ending of drug and alcohol abuse, raising academic standards, encouraging good teaching, restoring parent and state/local government involvement, and teaching the basics. (MSE)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Back to Basics, Discipline, Drug Abuse
Altschul, D. Robert – 1984
A geographer responds to three themes found in the U.S. National Commission on Excellence in Education report "A Nation at Risk": (1) the return to basics theme, (2) the science and technology theme, and (3) the social science theme. The report recommends the adoption of "New Basics," which, in four years of high school, would…
Descriptors: Back to Basics, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Needs
