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U.S. Supreme school court rules that the districts policy of allowing student led prayer prior to football games violates clause of the 1st amendment.
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Mandates high stakes testing, increase in school accountability, schools recieve penalties when they don't make yearly progress.
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Economic groups widen and a decrase in the middle class is seen.
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Technology enables forms of communication and elaboration. Technology has also shifted the role of the teacher as more of a guide on the side.
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In Pennsylvannia there was a case (Kitzmiller vs. Doe) that had declared teaching an alternative to evolution is a violation of the first amendment.
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School shootings are starting to become a trend.
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Quest to Learn is the 1st school to teach primarily through game based learning opened in September in New York city.
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Achievement of USA teenagers continues to lag behind that of their counterparts in other developed countries.
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Drop out rate reached an all time low.
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A demographic milestone reached the students in k-12 public schools, minority students outnumbered Caucasion students.
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Obama joined the "too much testing movement". States were also given more control in judging school quality.