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1980s The Excellence Movement
The Excellence Movement called for a intensification to existing practices (GCU, 2017). However, this movement did not offer any new ideas, just the same traditional educational instruction. -
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School Reform in the US
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1982 Madeline C Hunter
In 1982, Madeline Hunter's book "Mastery teaching" had been published. This book, had introduced direct instruction teaching model. -
1982 Pubic Kindergaten System
Mississippi’s historic 1982 Education
Reform Act was a significant civil rights and economic
development initiative, but the Magnolia State needs to
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National Committee of Excellence
In Sept. 1983, the national committee of excellence called a Nation at risk calls for sweeping reforms in public education and teacher training. Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world (NCE, 1983). -
1990s The Restructuring Movement
This movement is also known as the "Factory model". This reform had decentralize of authority and decision-making responsibility to the school site, so the educators are empowered to determine the means for accomplishing the goals (GCU, 2017). This movement failed just like the excellence movement because they failed to make a significant difference in the ability of American schools to meet the challenges they face (Dufour et al, 2008). -
1994 Improving America's School Act and 2000 Goals Educate
These Acts help states and communities establish a framework for comprehensive, standard-based education reform for all students (Riley,1995). The department of Education wanted to ensure that all children will reach the challenging academic standards. However, none of the goals that the government mention were met by the year 2000, and the states lost a few goals including teacher quality and school safety. The program was replaced by the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) (Bentsen, 2016). -
2002- No Child Left Behind
"All students will Learn, or Else". This law had increased the testing requirements, mandated annual assessments in reading and mathematics for grades 3-8, and once in high school (Dufour et. al, 2008). What this did for the schools was changed the way the teachers are hired, the teachers have to be highly qualified in the field of study they are teaching. However, by the mid-2007, approximately two thirds of American adults prefer the law to be rewritten or abolished (Dufour et. al., 2008). -
Common Core State Standards Initative
The common core standards are informed by the best state standards already existence, the experience of teachers, content experts, states and leading thinkers, and lastly the feedback from the public (Common Core State, 2017). The standards are college and career readiness for what the students are expected to know and understand when they graduate high school. However, this reform has failed due to funding and classroom time that is consumed by the state test (Benten, 2016).