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ensure accuracy. Disability in America: Toward a National Agenda
for Prevention Critique of the Report The agenda suggested in
the majority report is composed primarily of vague slogans
(e.g., "enhance the role of the private sector," "critically
assess progress") and calls for more research, training,
education, data collection, and coordination. Only 7 of the 27
recommendations (nos. 16 through 22) would provide services
directly to people who could benefit from them, or would
directly prevent disability. The remaining recommendations call
for more bureaucracy, more training programs, and more jobs for
educated, middle-class, mostly nondisabled people. The report
fails to set an agenda or even to suggest how policymakers might
go about setting one. It merely provides a long list of things
that could be done, without any indicat