Children should have equal access to a high-quality education. It’s a popular talking point among both the left and the right because it’s non-objectionable — yet it’s far from the reality of American primary and secondary education. As the landmark Reagan-administration report, A Nation at Risk, put it 35 years ago, “If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.” READ MORE