National Commission on Excellence in Education

The National Commission on Excellence in Education was an agency of the United States Department of Education, established in 1981 by Secretary of Education Terrel Bell. The Commission's two years of work resulted in the report A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform. It was chaired by David P. Gardner and included prominent members such as Nobel prize-winning chemist Glenn T. Seaborg.

It produced a short summary of its findings called The United States System of Education in which it gives a short history of education since colonial days and, after a Preface, gives an overall view on control and financing of education, organization and structure, statistical data and conclusions.

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