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David A. Hamburg, a physician, educator, and scientist with a public health background, took the helm in late 1982 with the intention of mobilizing the best scientific and scholarly talent and thinking around " the prevention of rotten outcomes "-all the way from early childhood to international relations.

The Corporation moved away from higher education, placing priority on the education and healthy development of children and adolescents and the preparation of youth for a scientific and technological, knowledge-driven world.

In 1984, the Corporation established the Carnegie Commission on Education and the Economy.

Through its major publication, A Nation Prepared ( 1986 ), the foundation reaffirmed the role of the teacher as the " best hope " for ensuring educational excellence in elementary and secondary education.

An outgrowth of that report was establishment, a year later, of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards to consider ways of attracting able candidates to the teaching profession and recognizing and retaining them.

At the Corporation's initiative, the American Association for the Advancement of Science issued two groundbreaking reports, Science for All Americans ( 1989 ) and Benchmarks for Science Literacy ( 1993 ), which recommended a common core of learning in science, mathematics, and technology for all citizens and helped set national standards of achievement in these domains.