Until now, this report was unavailable online. ERIC does not have it; nor does the NEGP archive.

So here it is—the only digitized copy online so far as I can discern.

As noted elsewhere on this blog, the National Education Goals Panel was a major payer in federal education policy in the 1990s. It moved the policy conversation to center on accountability, standards, and testing.

Read here to to learn where to get free copies of the other NEGP reports.

National Council On Education Standards and Testing, Raising Standards for American Education (1992)

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The full citation of this study is: National Council On Education Standards and Testing, Raising Standards for American Education: A Report to Congress, the Secretary of Education, the National Education Goals Panel, and the American People (Washington: GPO, January 24, 1992)

Details on NCEST, which produced this report, can be found on the Federal Education Policy History website.

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The National Education Goals Reports 1991-1999

On February 24, 2012September 12, 2015 By Kevin R. KosarIn Organizations, Studies1 Comment

The National Education Goals Reports provide a trove of education data. Reading them also gives the researcher a feel for the big subjects of the tumultuous federal schooling debates of the 1990s. Additionally, the movement to establish education standards grew out of the effort to reach education goals—standards being the benchmarks for progress thereto.(1) The National Education Goals reports were published by the National Education Goals Panel (NEGP). This organization formed after the historic 1989 Charlottesville education summit, which was attended by governors and President George H.W. Bush. NEGP was established to report annually on the nation’s progress toward the nation’s education goals. The 1994 Goals 2000: Educate America Act (Sections 201-207) gave federal statutory recognition to NEGP, which further heightened its position in the education policy debates of the time. NEGP was effectively abolished by Section 1011 of the No Child Left Behind Act in 2002. Continue reading “The National Education Goals Reports 1991-1999” →

Beatrice F. Birman et al., The Current Operation of the Chapter 1 Program (1987)

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This study of Chapter 1 (Title I) was commissioned by by the Department of Education’s Office of Educational Research and Improvement (formerly the National Institute of Education).

The report was produced by Department of Education staff and researchers at private sector firms, such as Policy Study Associates. Congress mandated this study be done in December 1983.

A big finding of this study was that only a small proportion of students served by Chapter 1, the centerpiece of the Elementary and Secondary Eduction Act of 1965,were achieving at the levels that other American children were.

The full citation is Beatrice F. Birman et al., The Current Operation of the Chapter 1 Program: Final Report from the National Assessment of Chapter 1 (Washington: GPO, 1987).

Survey of Elementary Schools’ Curricula (1925)

On April 12, 2011February 13, 2023 By Kevin R. KosarIn Studies

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This is a wonderful survey titled Legislative Control of Elementary Curriculum. It was authored by Jesse Knowlton Flanders in 1925.

His research question is simple: What are the 48 states (yes, 48) requiring students to study?

Flanders utilized statutes from each state to derive his findings. Not surprisingly, in a time when the federal government had very little involvement in the schools, each state has its own idiosyncratic curriculum.