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Algebra becomes part of High School Curriculum after it is changed that Algebra is now required to enter college.
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In 1857, one hundred educators answered a national call to unite as one voice in the cause of public education.
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Teachers began demanding that Algebra was reformed to be connected, conceptual, and less mechanical.
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NEA founds the Committee of Ten
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The Committee of Ten was a working group of educators that, in 1892, recommended the standardization of American high school curriculum.
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College Board develops and administers standardized tests and curricula used by K-12 and post-secondary education institutions to promote college-readiness and as part of the college admissions process.
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Areas of study are divided into content and skills.
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Report seperately that education must look like what the students will encounter in the outside world for it to be effective.
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The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics presents itself as "the public voice of mathematics education, supporting teachers to ensure equitable mathematics learning of the highest quality for all students through vision, leadership, professional development, and research.
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This crash of Wall Street triggered the Great Depression. Leaving millions out of work and even more quiting school to try and help to support their families.
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This was a tough time for all. Many young adults found themselves without the knowledge or skills to find work. This led educators to start an educational reform to help serve the youth more.
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Millions of people moved from the Great Plains to more urban areas. This also added to the growing amount of students now out of school.
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After this attack focus shifted off of education and towards winning the war. Many highschool students were put into premilitary training.
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The NSF took leadership to address the shortage of qualified scientists and engineers in the nation.
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Interval arithmetic, interval mathematics, interval analysis, or interval computation, is a method developed by mathematicians since the 1950s and 1960s as an approach to putting bounds on rounding errors and measurement errors in mathematical computation and thus developing numerical methods that yield reliable results.
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Sputnik 1 was launched and changed the face of Science forever.
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Congress passes the National Defense Education Act, which provides $887 million to boost science education, including doubling funding for the National Science Foundation (NSF), a federal agency that supports research, teacher training and curriculum development.
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A milestone in Science education, the NSF curriculum development projects focused on upgradeing the teaching of science by modernizing the content of science courses.
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Supreme Court rules that barring the teaching of evolution was unconstitutional.
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The first National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) exam tests what American students nationwide know about science and other subjects.
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Apollo 11 lands on the moon, ending the Space Race and inspiring many to pursue careers in science.
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During this time period arithmetic was passed down to the elementary schools. This was of course as the Algebra requirements took hold of colleges.
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by 1977 60% of US school districts reported using one or nother of the NSF sponsored science curricula
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President Reagan’s fiscal year 1982 budget slashes funding for the National Science Foundation by 70 percent, eliminating all NSF support for K-12 science initiatives, including teacher institutes and curriculum development.
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This report highlighted the how the US was falling short compared to other industrialized nations in educating their youth.
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lorida passes a law allowing students to opt out of dissecting animals in science class. Fourteen more states have since passed similar laws, board of education policies or state resolutions.
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The controversial 1989 NCTM Standards called for more emphasis on conceptual understanding and problem solving informed by a constructivist understanding of how children learn.
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Math wars is the debate over modern mathematics education, textbooks and curricula in the United States that was triggered by the publication in 1989 of the Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics by the NCTM and subsequent development and widespread adoption of a new generation of mathematics curricula inspired by these standards.
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NAEP begins testing science knowledge at the state level in 1996.
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The No Child Left Behind Act takes the focus off science education as teachers scramble to boost scores on math and reading tests.
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This was the school year that NCLB mandated state level assessments in Science begin.
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