Sentence examples for mediocre educational from inspiring English sources

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.

To the Editor: The alarming conclusion of the 1983 report "A Nation at Risk" was, "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".

"It is a mediocre educational experience to lock people in a room and talk at them for an hour and a half".

No matter how one feels about Reagan's viewpoints, there is no doubt the report's stark introductory language is memorable: "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".

Take genes, environment and ability: it is easy enough to suppose that if in the same mediocre environment Tom develops his educational and career opportunities better than Harry, then this difference is owing to genes.

A mediocre student in the rigid French educational system, he moved after his first year in college to New York, studying cinema at New York University with Haig Manoogian, Martin Scorsese's professor, and Jonas Mekas, the experimental filmmaker.

But nationally, America's educational system is about as mediocre as it was then.

The educational system was geared to producing mediocre school leavers and graduates who would not challenge the system.

Until teaching becomes a profession that attracts and rewards the best students that our high schools produce with high salaries, generous benefits, rigorous preparation and great working conditions, our educational system is doomed to be mediocre at best.

Add to this the conservativeness of the South, lack of smart young people and good educational institutions, a dearth of natural beauty and mediocre shopping.

Despite the growth in program participation and public funding many children still do not enroll in any preschool program and the educational quality of the programs many attend is mediocre to poor.