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Between 2002 and 2012, 700,000 elementary teachers were projected to retire.
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Beginning elementary teachers are more likely to quit their jobs than older teachers due to the stress.
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From 2007 to 2008, 76% of public school teachers were female, 44% were under age 40, and 52% had a higher degree.
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Teachers with 10 or fewer years of experience now take over 52% of our teachers in the United States
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Teacher job satisfaction dropped 15 points since from 2009 to 2012, from 59% who were very satisfied to 44% who are very satisfied, the lowest level in over 20 years.
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For the year of 2011 to 2012 the average teacher salary was 56,643.,
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The twentieth century brought a variety of technology to the classrooms, such as filmstrip projectors and overhead projector, motion picture, and an educational television. page 186
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Throughout the last 10 years, emails being sent has changed drastically. It started at just 12 billion to 247 billion.
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80% of 0-5 year olds use technology for educational uses.
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A Nation At Risk report called for high school students who have graduated to be able to understand and use computers.
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This act continued to reinforce the A nation at risk motion by stating students must be technologically literate by High School
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in 2010 the federal government had the National Education Technology Plan published calling for a revolutionary transformation rather than evolutionary changing
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The first school was The Boston Latin School that opened up in 1635 and still remains one of the oldest schools
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The first college to open was Harvard as a higher education institution. Harvard was in then Newtowne (Cambridge) Massachusetts.
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Hartford opens up in Hartford Connecticut in 1638.
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Virginia created a law requiring parents and masters to make sure their children knew religion and the capital laws.
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The court says that every town that has at least 50 families need an Elementary School. Every 100 families, a Latin School was needed.
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President Thomas Jefferson came up with the idea of a two-track educational system. " The laboring and the learned" he pronounced. Scholarships would be given to very few of the laborers to advance for more schooling.
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Noah Webster wrote the first grammar/English textbooks of the English language. a spelling book, grammar book, and a reading book.
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by the 19th century, Education became extremely important to people in the United States
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By 1900, they had all schools available for ages 8-14
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By 1918, everyone was required to complete Elementary School
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Schools began to racially segregate schools due to the Brown vs. Board of Education
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The first ACT test was taken and invented
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By this time, the separation of racial schools was eliminatedhttps://www.americanboard.org/blog/11-facts-about-the-history-of-education-in-america/
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Apple Inc. made their first computer and donated many to different schools around the united states.
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The first non profit organization was introduced to help college students known as Teach for America (TFA)