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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 ...
In 2023-2024 school year internal state testing, 47% of students met or exceeded basic state reading standards, while 35.5% met or exceeded basic state math standards. Show comments Advertisement
[5] ESSA leaves significantly more control to the states and districts in determining the standards students are held to. States are required to submit their goals and standards and how they plan to achieve them to the US Department of Education (DOE), which must then submit additional feedback, and eventually approve. [6]
Measure E was on the fall ballot as a way to raise $36 million a year for 20 years. It was proposed as a two-tenths-of-a-cent tax on all sales in Fresno County. Two-thirds of the funding would ...
Reading skills for eighth-graders hit their lowest level since testing began in 1992. Levels for fourth-graders were also near record lows as educators struggle to keep students engaged in a post ...
A recent report by the National Center on Education and the Economy, believes that the education system is neither coherent nor likely to see improvements due to the nature of it. [10] A critical race theory analysis of the history of education reform in the United States reveals the influence of systemic racism on educational policy ...
President Trump vowed on the campaign trail to eliminate the Dept of Education and bring the power back to the states. Butcher told Fox News Digital, "Congress should heed the call and advance ...
Enrollment for community colleges in the Fall 2020 semester dropped by 10% from the past year, with the sharpest declines occurring among first-generation students and students of color. [9] Fall 2020 enrollment losses in undergraduate institutions were also more pronounced for men than women, with men experiencing an overall 5.1% decrease in ...