We Were Warned, Then We Were Blamed In 1983, the United States was handed a warning label. The report was called A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform. It was written by the National Commission on Excellence in Education, a commission created by U.S. Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell and chaired by David Pierpont Gardner. The commission was directed to examine the quality of American education and report its findings to the Secretary and the American peo
