The 1983 report by the National Commission on Excellence in Education pointed to deficiencies in the U.S. educational system. Which of these was not included as one of the deficiencies?
a. widespread illiteracy among adults
b. length of the school day, and the school years, were too long to be effective
c. the inability of many seventeen-year-olds to solve complex mathematics problems
d. American children's poor performance on achievement tests relative to children in other nations
e. functional illiteracy among the nation's seventeen-year-olds
B
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