To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Christine Mohr of Sylvan Learning, +1-202-296-2002, ext. 110, cam@ecius.net BALTIMORE, April 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In recognition of the 25th anniversary of A Nation at Risk, Richard E.

By Walt Gardner A new one-hour documentary, "Two Million Minutes: A Global Examination," is being screened in states with presidential primaries this winter in the hope of making educational quality in America a marquee issue.

By Anonymous SOCIETY THE SOURCE: "History's Struggle to Survive in the Schools" by Diane Ravitch, in OAH Magaxine of History, April 2007. IT'S EASY TO IMAGINE THAT American children in some golden period of the last century got a thorough grounding in history. They didn't.

According to a recent news article, "City leaders,

WE'VE HAD a bumper crop of new education reports from the eminent and powerful of late, all with one basic message: American public schools are lousy and urgently need reform, if not replacement.