The Importance of a Helpline Hotline

The book is essentially just a replication of a moral panic that we had in the early 1980s About how American students were being overtaken by students in Russia and Japan. That panic was driven by a report Ronald Reagan formed a committee to evaluate American education. In 1983 They put out a report titled a nation at risk an imperative for educational reform. The report very famously declared that quote the educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity.