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T he Road to Charlottesville The 1989 Education Summit

A Publication of the National Education Goals Panel

Current Members National Education Goals Panel

Governors

Paul E. Patton, Kentucky (D), Chairman 1999 John Engler, Michigan (R) Jim Geringer, Wyoming (R)

James B. Hunt, Jr., North Carolina (D) Frank Keating, Oklahoma (R) Frank O'Bannon, Indiana (D)

Tommy Thompson, Wisconsin (R) Cecil H. Underwood, West Virginia (R)

Members of the Administration

Michael Cohen, Special Assistant to the U.S. Secretary of Education (D) Richard W. Riley, U.S. Secretary of Education (D)

Members of Congress

U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman, New Mexico (D) U.S. Senator Jim Jeffords, Vermont (R)

U.S. Representative William F. Gooding, Pennsylvania (R) U.S. Representative Matthew G. Martinez, California (D)

State Legislators

Representative G. Spencer Coggs, Wisconsin (D) Representative Mary Lou Cowlishaw, Illinois (R)

Representative Douglas R. Jones, Idaho (R) Senator Stephen Stoll, Missouri (D)

Executive Director

Ken Nelson

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he Road to Charlottesville

The 1989 Education Summit

M a r i s A . Vi n o v s k i s

Department of History, Institute for Social Research,

and School of Public Policy University of Michigan

September 1999

A Publication of the National Education Goals Panel

Paper prepared for the National Education Goals Panel (NEGP). I am grateful to a number of individuals who have provided assistance. I want to thank Emily Wurtz of NEGP and EEI Communications in Alexandria, Virginia, for their editorial assistance. Naturally, the interpretations and views expressed here are strictly my own and do not represent those of any other individuals or organizations.

Photos courtesy of George Bush Presidential Library.

Table of Contents

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Educational Developments in the Late 1970s and Early 1980s . . . . . . . . 3 A Nation at Risk and the "Crisis" in Education in the Mid-1980s . . . . . . 5 Efforts to Improve the Measurement of Student Achievement

at the State Level in the 1980s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 The Nation's Governors and Education Goals

in the Second Half of the 1980s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 The Origins of the Charlottesville Education Summit of

September 1989 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 The Charlottesville Education Summit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Endnotes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

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