This 1998 report was publiched by the Council for Basic Education, an organization that was founded in 1956 to promote classical liberal education. It closed in 2004. A copy can be downloaded on Eric.gov at https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED416080.

(Interestingly, CBE’s last leader, the late A. Graham Down, was my neighbor and was the teacher of Christopher DeMuth, who led the American Enterprise Institute from 1986 to 2008.)

It was one of many reports of the day that argued for rigorous education standards.