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Boston Latin School: Still the oldest public school in America. (American Board, 2015)
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Were not taught how to write, but how to read. (American Board, 2015)
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The average American spent only 82 days at school. (Brennan, 2001)
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Pennsylvania says only poor get free education, the rich have to pay for theirs. (2015)
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The chalkboard was introduced, and not truly used until later when teachers started to teach the same lesson to a huge group of students. (Bolick, Cooper, Ryan, pg. 186)
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Southern States said that slaves weren't allowed to be taught to read. 5% become illiterate. (2015)
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Massachusetts Gov. Edward Everett wants to have a state board of education. (Brennan, 2001)
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Native American children are taken from their parents and sent to the Bureau of Indian Affairs off-reservation. (2015)
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The average American schooling was only five years. (Brennan, 2001)
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Every state requires students to finish elementary school. (American Board, 2015)
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150 school districts were surveyed and three quarters of them are using intelligence testing to place students in different academic classes. (2015)
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Many people were fighting for their own rights. Blacks, women and Hispanic Americans wanted to be treated equally, especially in school. (Brennan, 2001)
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United States has lots of racially segregated schools in the 1960s, but by the late 1970s, segregated schooling was eliminated. (American Board, 2015)
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PARC v. Pennsylvania wanted students with disabilities to be placed in a publicly funded school setting that met their individual educational needs. (University of Kansas, April)
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President Ford signed the Public Law 94-142. This law says that all states are required to provide equal access to education for children with disabilities. (University of Kansas, April)
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FTCA makes a college on every Indian reservation to allow young people to go to college without leaving their families. (2015)
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All high school graduates need to be able to both understand and use computers with the Nation at Risk report. (Bolick, Cooper, Ryan, pg. 190)
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Excel is used to help organize data sets, and create graphs. (Ryan, Cooper, & Bolick, pg. 200)
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President Reagan signed the law that gave parents of children with disabilities more say in their child's IEP. (University of Kansas, April)
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Traumatic brain injury and autism were added to the law. (University of Kansas, April)
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Allows students to see the relationships between angles, lines and more for experimentation. (Ryan, Cooper, & Bolick, pg. 203)
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It is a inquiry-based learning activity that helps learners on how to use information from the web. (Ryan, Cooper, & Bolick, pg. 201)
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Software that allows students to show their understanding of a lesson and teach it to other students to help understand their own thoughts. (Ryan, Cooper, & Bolick, pg. 197)
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Making multimedia videos using digital tools. (Ryan, Cooper, & Bolick, pg. 196)
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Creates free podcasts that allows to be converted to files and played on other devices. (Ryan, Cooper, & Bolick, pg. 204)
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70% of eligible high school seniors graduate each year. Which means around 1.2 million high school dropouts per year. (Watson, 2008)
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Teachers will use Keynote to link videos or websites as part of the presentation. (Ryan, Cooper, & Bolick, pg. 187)
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School violence is rising more and more each year. In 2004 the statistics were starting to get higher. (Watson, 2008)
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Congress made IDEA to raise standards for instructors to teach special education classes. (University of Kansas)
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YouTube allows anyone to post a vlog (which is a video journal about what they are up to). (Bolick, Cooper and Ryan, pg. 197)
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Prezi is a online website that allows students to have more fun with presenting. (Ryan, Cooper, & Bolick, pg 196)
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Called for a "revolutionary transformation [of education] rather than evolutionary tinkering." (Bolick, Cooper, Ryan, pg. 190)
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Games which students can be different roles and explore different jobs of civic education. (Ryan, Cooper, & Bolick, pg. 202)
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Around 10 years ago, the number of emails sent each day was around 12 billion. Now around 247 billion emails are being sent each day. (Bolick, Cooper, Ryan, pg. 188)
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From 2.7 hours a week online, to 18 hours a week online, all within the last 10 years. (Bolick, Cooper, Ryan, pg. 188)