Explaining High Black Youth Unemployment

Explaining High Black Youth Unemployment

Paul E. Peterson, in The Brookings Review (Winter 1983), 1775Schools' Woes Massachusetts Ave. N.W., Washington,
D.C. 20036.
Last year, President Reagan's National Commission on Excellence in Education warned of a "rising tide of mediocrity" in the nation's schools. A host of other task forces soon echoed the dire news [see "Teaching in America," WQ, New Year's 19841. But according to Peter- son, a Brookings Institution political scientist, all the hoopla concealed the fact...

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