(1) See A Nation at Risk (National Commission on Excellence in Education 1983) or Educating Americans for the 21st Century (National Science Board Commission on Precollege Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology 1983).

(2) What is Fundamental and What is Not (Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences 1983a); New Goals for Mathematical Sciences Education (Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences 1983b); and School Mathematics: Options for the 1990's (Romberg 1984).