April 2023 marks the 40th anniversary of the release of the report, A Nation at Risk. It was a big deal, as I have written here, and by declaring a antional education emergency stoked increased federal involvement in schools. This ws ironic, seeing as Reagan campaigned to “dismantle” the Department of Education, which had been created by congressional Democrats and President Jimmy Carter just a couple years earlier.

Five years ago, The74.com released this video, which includes interviews with folks who helped write the report.

And, for good measure, here’s a video released by the Fordham Foundation 10 years ago (30 years after the publication of A Nation at Risk).