Digital Promise
JANUARY 19, 2016
These tools help us identify and then address -- through intervention or enrichment -- individual students' needs around each of the major academic standards. This isn't a new story: even PCs, which were widely available in classrooms by 2001, rarely had a real impact on classroom instruction. So, what can be done?
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 9, 2018
Annual testing of students became a federal requirement after 2001, and that sometimes affected instruction. states adopted new, more demanding academic standards in the 2010s, and there have been widespread reports about the difficulties in changing instruction in the classroom. Policy changes may play a role too.
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The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 17, 2017
Most charter operators did not come close to hitting their targets, predicting, for example, that they could move students from 50 percent proficiency to 80 or even 100 percent in four or five years. The No Child Left Behind targets, set in 2001, became more flexible in 2011, after U.S.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 8, 2020
More recently, widespread changes in academic standards, like the adoption of the Common Core standards and concern over low reading scores , further increased the rigor of kindergarten to the point that it has been referred to as “ the new first grade.” They had taken out all the fun to make it more academic,” Turtzo said.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 4, 2016
She traces the current struggle to balance funding for both private and public programs back to an earlier reform in 2001: the Cecil J. Jenna Conway, the assistant superintendent of early childhood in the Louisiana Department of Education, acknowledges that the diverse delivery model hasn’t always been successful in Louisiana.
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