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There's a lot of, to use Peter Sacks's words, "heavy lifting" ahead of us on many fronts--including education ["A Nation at Risk," Nov. 18, 2002]. Naturally, I'd have preferred unadulterated praise and assurances that this one book had done it all--Sacks seems to have wanted me to write a rather different kind of book. But there's more to be done and he fairly lays out the tasks ahead of us all, tasks no single article or book will ever satisfy.
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