A Nation at Risk

A Nation at Risk

Published	1983
Publisher	National Commission on Excellence in Education

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.^{[1][citation needed]} Among other things, the report contributed to the ever-growing assertion that American schools were failing, and it touched off a wave of local, state, and federal reform efforts.^{[citation needed]}