23 August 2013
Lance Izumi, Koret Senior Fellow and Senior Director of Education Studies at the Pacific Research Institute, discusses why 30 years after President Reagan's groundbreaking report, "A Nation at Risk," America's education system continues to fail and the role unions have played in the demise of public education.
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