Students in these grades were to demonstrate competency over challenging subject matter including English, math, science, foreign language, civics, and government economics, arts, history, and geography.
What are the grades 4, 8, and 12?
100
What made computers a great learning tool?
What is the internet?
100
In these years, a push for creative innovations is said to have left a hole in the basics.
What were the '60s and '70s?
100
Previously most children had been segregated here.
What were special classrooms?
100
All children in America were to start these institutions ready to learn.
What are schools?
200
It was designed to measure a student's performance compared with that of a very large number of other students.
What is a standardized test?
200
They asked to be involved in decision making.
Who were parents?
200
These were scoring lower on general knowledge tests, than in prior years.
What are college graduates?
200
American students fell behind students in other countries in these subjects
What is math and science?
200
It was a report published in 1983 that stated that America's competitive edge was at risk, and that we were falling behind in business, science and technology.
What is A Nation at Risk?
300
It is the type of education where schools teach towards students demonstrating ability in a subject area. It is a great way to evaluate learning, versus memorization.
What is competency-based education?
300
when were most classrooms equipped with a computer
What is mid 1990s
300
National education goals were to be reached by this year.
What was the year 2000?
300
These became more available when prices were dropped and new educational programs were developed.
What are computers?
300
A report stated that America as falling behind other countries in these.
What is business, science, and technology.
400
This organization started developing standards for what should be taught. Specific organizations began their own performance standards, called national standards.
What is the National Council on Education Standards?
400
Uniformity was desired in these institutions.
What were schools?
400
In 1983, it was a report publish be a federal agency.
What was A Nation at Risk?
400
These helped educators make decisions about what is working and what is not.
What are standardized tests?
400
The Back-to-Basics movement pushed for more of these.
What is reading, writing and math?
500
They are guidelines that define what students at various levels should know and be able to do.
What are education standards?
500
The standardized tests compared these.
What are students and schools?
500
High school graduates increased to this percent.
What is 90 percent?
500
In the 1990's, Bush established these to be reached by the year 2000.
What are the 6 educational goals?
500
It must be appropriate and take place in the least restrivtive enviroment possible.