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Public Law 101-476
IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) renames and amends Public Law 94-142. This mandates transition services and adds autism and traumatic brain injury to the eligibility list. -
Tim Berners-Lee
A British Engineer and computer scientist (Inventor of the Internet), writes the first web client-server protocol, which allows two computers to communicate. -
SMART Technologies
The Smart Board (interactive white board) is introduced by SMART Technologies -
First Website
Tim Berners-Lee puts the first website online from a computer at the CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) in order to facilitate information among scientists. -
Constructivist
Jacqueline and Martin Brooks' In Search of Understandig: The Case for Constructivist Classrooms is published. This describes constructivism, a view that learning best occurs through active construction of knowledge rather than its passive reception. -
Preposition 187
As a backlash to illegal immigration, California voters pass Proposition 187, denying benefits, including public education, to undocumented aliens in California. It was challenged by the ACLU and was overturned -
Whiteboards
Whitebords find their way into U.S. classrooms in increasing numbers and begin to replace the blackboard. -
James Banks
Banks' book Multicultural Education: Transformative Knowledge and Action, makes an important contribution to the growing body of study regarding multiculturalism in education. -
Proposition 227
California voters pass Proposition 227, requiring that all public schools instruction be in English. -
Report Cards
The Higher Education Act is amended and reauthorized requiring institutions and states to produce "report cards" about teacher education. -
Page and Brin
Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin set up a workplace for their newly incorporated search engine in a Menlo Park, California garage. -
NCLB
The controversial No Child Left Behind Act is approved by Congress and signed into law by President bush on January 8th, 2002. -
Changes in IDEA
H.R. 1350, The Individuals with Disabilities Improvement Act reauthorizes and modifies IDEA. Changes include IEP process and procedural safeguards, increased authority for school personnel in special education placement decisions, and alignment of IDEA with the NCLB Act of 2001. -
AAMR to AAIDD
American Association on Mental Retardation (AAMR) became the American Association on Intellectual and Development Disabilities (AAIDD), joining the trend toward use of term intellectual disability in place of mental retardation. -
Labor-HHS-Education
The House and the Senate pass the Labor-HHS-Education appropriation bill which includes reauthorization of the NCLB Act. President Bush vetoes this because it exceeds his budget request. -
Barack Obama
Barack Obama defeats John McCain and is elected the 44th President of the United States. -
American Reinvestment & Recovery Act
The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009 provides more than 90 billion dollars for education, nearly half of which goes to local school districst to prevent layoffs and for school modernization and repair. -
H1N1
The World Health Organization declares a global pandemic for H1N1 influenza on June 11th, 2009. Schols close in several states during October due to large numbers of influenza cases.
