This has put a strain on the few remaining schools, which are grappling with shortage of teachers, classrooms, desks and learning materials.
Students tested their classroom learning against real-life examples and saw others grappling with challenges yet to be solved.
From school e-readers and flipped classroom models to computerized testing and online courses, educators are still grappling with ways to shift an educational paradigm of the 20th century into one of the 21st.
She is already grappling with tardiness and discipline problems, often spending far more time on "classroom management," as veteran teachers call it, than lessons.
At many public universities, grappling with record budget cuts and enrollments at the same time, the classroom is no longer being spared.
Textbook publishers, smaller startups, school districts and teachers are all grappling with how best to incorporate the standards into the lesson plans, classroom activities, homework and quizzes that students encounter on a daily basis.
Public schools are grappling with how to most effectively integrate virtual education into their classrooms.
With the enactment of the law, public schools in Georgia will be pushed, once again, into grappling with whether or how ideas tied to religion can be introduced into classrooms without violating the separation of church and state.
I believe that classrooms lacking citizenship components, curriculum that is not oriented to solving real-world problems and grappling with deep and mature questions, can leave us feeling incomplete.
Nicole Hockley has been grappling with that question since her six-year-old son Dylan was shot to death in 2012 in the arms of his classroom aide.
