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A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform is the 1983 report of the United States National Commission on Excellence in Education.Its publication is considered a landmark event in modern American educational history.
In 1983, The New York Times published an article that cited a passage from the "Pursuit of Excellence: Education and the Future of America" by the Rockefeller Brothers' Fund's panel, "America at Mid-Century." [3] The "excellence" movement of the mid-1980s, was inspired by the landmark report, "A Nation at Risk. [4] [5]
Granted the Council of the District of Columbia the power to issue revenue bonds to finance college programs. Pub. L. 97–328: 1983 Student Loan Consolidation and Technical Amendments Act of 1983 Reauthorized the authority of Sallie Mae to consolidate student loans. Pub. L. 98–79: 1983 Challenge Grant Amendments of 1983
The April 1983 U.S. Embassy bombing in Beirut kills 63 people. The Disney Channel is initiated on American cable TV. April 25 – Manchester, Maine schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov , after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war .
Prior to World War II, most public schools in the country were de jure or de facto segregated. All Southern states had Jim Crow Laws mandating racial segregation of schools. . Northern states and some border states were primarily white (in 1940, the populations of Detroit and Chicago were more than 90% white) and existing black populations were concentrated in urban ghettos partly as the ...
Race can play a part in a student's persistence rate in college: Drop-out rates are highest with the Native American and African American population, both greater than 50 percent. [88] White and Asian Americans had the lowest dropout rates. Another issue related to race is faculty representation at universities.
Reed College. In 1995, Reed College refused to participate in U.S. News & World Report annual survey. According to Reed's Office of Admissions, "Reed College has actively questioned the methodology and usefulness of college rankings ever since the magazine's best-colleges list first appeared in 1983, despite the fact that the issue ranked Reed among the top ten national liberal arts colleges.
The economy was in recession in 1981–1983, but recovered and grew sharply after that. The Iran–Contra affair was the most prominent scandal during this time, wherein the Reagan Administration sold weapons to Iran , and used the money for CIA aid to pro-American guerrilla Contras in left-leaning Nicaragua.