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The state of higher education in California is falling apart. ... In the same way, local voters should back the next attempt at a sales-tax measure to benefit Fresno State. Improvements to the ...
The vision of the standards-based education reform movement [9] is that all teenagers will receive a meaningful high school diploma that serves essentially as a public guarantee that they can read, write, and do basic mathematics (typically through first-year algebra) at a level which might be useful to an employer. To avoid a surprising ...
Last week, Rep. Thomas Massie re-introduced a bill that seeks to abolish the U.S. Department of Education. The one-sentence bill was re-introduced by Massie, a Republican representing Kentucky, on ...
The Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States proposes including LGBT curriculum in school health and sex education classes. Their proposed curriculum would aim to teach students, over the course of their K–12 education, to understand sexual orientation as well as gender roles, and treat others with respect, among other ...
The UK’s Education Secretary delivered a damning verdict following the Pisa scores, which showed decline in maths, reading and science in Scotland. Keegan blames ‘nationalist’ policies for ...
The standards-based National Education Goals 2000, set by the U.S. Congress in the 1990s, were based on the principles of outcomes-based education. In 2002, the standards-based reform movement culminated as the No Child left Behind Act of 2001 [75] where achievement standard were set by each individual state. This federal policy was active ...
The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education is a non-fiction book by Diane Ravitch, originally published in 2010 by Basic Books, [3] with revised and expanded versions reprinted over the years. [4] [5]
The Education for All Handicapped Children Act was updated in 1990 as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. [26] The Goals 2000: Educate America Act was enacted in 1994 to set education standards for states to receive additional federal funding. It required states to develop improvement plans that outlined standards, testing ...