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In an outlier city in California, whiteness has become the new code for academic mediocrity and laziness.

The National Commission on Excellence in Education declared in 1983 that the US was a nation at risk because of low student performance. It is argued that no perceptible improvements have been made since the report, due to the complacency of children, parents, the public, teachers, administrators, & policymakers. Reasons are given why these groups are content with their schools, & ten reforms are suggested. It is concluded that, while there is widespread public receptivity to fundamental changes in the US education system, parents must be made to recognize the necessity for major changes in their own schools & homes. L. Dorn

"First printing, December, 1917; second printing, May, 1918; third printing, 1919. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Peter Mayo has a distinguished reputation in the critical sociology of education. In this interview he shares his thoughts on mediocrity and the challenges it poses to political thought and educational principles, particularly in terms of securing a balance between social equity and the kind of quality learning that can play a role in emancipative action. He reflects on the capacity of the work of Antonio Gramsci and Paulo Freire to motivate such action and the potential of Adult Education and truly democratized higher education to secure enhanced "reading [of] the word and the world", while also speaking with candour about the damaging nature of some of mediocrity's processes and effects. ; peer-reviewed

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