In the wake of the rampage shooting of seventeen students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida this past February, both houses of the Florida legislature passed bipartisan legislation that raised the minimum age to purchase a gun to twenty-one and instituted a three-day waiting period for purchasing firearms. In addition to these
The Seal of Biliteracy is an award that can be earned by high school graduates who have become biliterate by achieving proficiency in English and at least one other world language (Seal of Biliteracy, 2018). Each state that awards a Seal develops its own requirements, and the Seal is typically affixed to the high school
The No Child Left Behind Act expired in 2007, five years after its enactment, but has remained intact in the absence of a replacement law. The Department of Education has begun granting waivers to most of the 50 states, releasing them from some unattainable annual targets while waiting for Congress to fix the law.
This is the conclusion of a three-part series that reflects on and projects the state of education policy within the Obama Administration. Part one of the series, a breakdown of the Obama Administration’s K-12 policy, can be found here[1]. Part two, which analyzes the Obama Administration’s Higher Education policy and emphasis areas, can be found
This is the second part of a three-part series that reflects and projects on the state of educational policy within the Obama Administration. Part one of the series, a breakdown of the Obama Administrations K-12 policy and emphasis areas, can be found here[1]. The conclusion, which makes predictions for K-12 and higher education in the
The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) has triggered increased attention to the uses of performance data related to student test scores, graduation rates, and other indicators of school and teacher quality. As the misuse of data emerging, we as future researchers should always be skeptical with the policy reports and related studies before
