Schools Struggling on Goals, Report Says

The nation’s schools are still struggling to fulfill many of the education goals set by virtually every state governor at the start of the decade, a new report concluded. The report by a bipartisan federal panel is an annual assessment of the work states are doing as part of a 10-year campaign to meet goals in American education by the year 2000. Students, particularly minorities and females, are continuing to make strides in math and science, but states are having difficulty in improving high school graduation rates and reading scores and in curtailing drug use. According to the report, “overall national performance is virtually static.”