Ronald Reagan actually said...

We have begun to turn back what our education commission 5 years ago called 'a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a nation and a people.'

Context

Remarks on Signing the Augustus F. Hawkins-Robert T. Stafford Elementary and Secondary School Improvement Amendments of 1988

04/27/1988

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