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Santa Fe School District v. Doe
A US Supreme Court case regarding the allowance of prayer prior to a football game. It is ruled that allowing the action is a violation of The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. -
The Flipped Classroom
The paper "Inverting the Classroom: A Gateway to Creating an Inclusive Learning Environment" written by Lage, Platt and Treglia is published. The paper analyses and discusses the research that was done on the integration of a flipped classroom and provides evidence on how it helps meets the needs of many different students with a variety of learning styles. -
North American Reggio Emilia Alliance (NAREA)
The NAREA officially became an organization and focused on the rights of children by following the Reggio Emilia system for early childhood education. -
No Child Left Behind Act (NCLBA)
A law placed in order to keep schools accountable for their students and the progress that they are making. Schools that were not showing high levels of progress were penalised. -
International Association for K-12 Online Learning
The organization is officially recognized and is dedicated to improving student's access to online education opportunities. -
The Individuals with Disabilities Improvement Act (IDEA)
A modification to the preexisting act that included modifications to the IEP process, special education placements, and integrated IDEA into the No Child Left Behind Act -
Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1
A Supreme Court case where it was officially ruled that race can not be a factor that is included in the decision of the placement of high school students. -
Higher Education Opportunity Act
Signed into law for multiple reasons such as making the federal aid application simpler and ensuring clear and developed campus safety protocols including reporting requirements amongst many other things. -
Common Core State Standards Initiative
Launched in 2009, this is a program that is designed to provide a template for what students should know in each subject by the end of each grade year. -
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
An act signed by President Barack Obama that provided 100 billion dollars to the U.S Department of Education. The money was used in many different ways such as to save hundreds of jobs in education and make improvements to schools and their districts. -
Special Education Reform
A commitment to special education that consisted of about 260 schools. The schools were dedicating their efforts to educating all special needs students in the most productive environment for them. -
Kindergarten Readiness Act
This act changed the required birthday for admittance into kindergarten to September 1st. It also established the requirement for schools to offer a transitional kindergarten program. -
Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL)
Although it was founded in 1994, CASEL hosts a forum where 120 attended in order to assess current standings as well as ways to increase the momentum behind the CASEL movement. -
California State Dashboard
This is an online system that shows the performance of schools and students groups in order to help with identifying current strengths as well as struggles compared to other schools both locally and statewide. -
Local Control and Accountability Plan
Set into place in order to provide opportunities for local educational agencies to construct plans that are made public for all to see. In this plan funds and how they are going to be spent to benefit the students are clearly articulated and laid out as well as other plans the school district has set for the students it will affect. -
Transgender Students in Sports
The Minnesota State High School League votes to allow transgender students participate in female sports. By doing so Minnesota becomes the 33rd state with a transgender student policy in place. -
Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
An education law that replaced the NCLBA. The law was placed in affect in order to assist public schools in providing equal and quality education to all students. It also gives states more power in assessing their student's success levels. -
Multilingual Education Act
A proposition in California that was voted yes on eliminated the policy of education being taught strictly in English. By passing this, schools were now allowed the option to include bilingual programs to their students. -
Student Walkouts
Students across the nation perform walkouts of their classrooms in order to protest gun violence in schools and demand a change in current gun laws. -
COVID-19
A national pandemic hits the nation and all schools are closed with students being moved strictly to online learning. -
Conclusion
The education system has made some major changes and experienced a variety of events. There have been multiple updates or replacements of many acts such as the ESSA replacing the NCBLA and many others in order to ensure relevant issues being addressed at all times. The action of students, teachers, and parents alike calling for reform has influenced a lot of these changes and benefited all involved. Education has a rich history and it should be expected to continue to for many years to come.
