In this case, the battlefield is not Baghdad, but the schoolyard and, on the whole, the news from the front line is a little more positive.Last month, more than 47m public-school students trudged back to their classrooms, starting the second year of the president's sweeping No Child Left Behind Act, a 12-year plan to raise national academic standards in America's public schools.
Teaching culturally diverse classrooms starts from embracing beliefs that recognise the strengths of cultural diversity.
Since 2013, in a short span of three years, over 400,000 teachers in grades K-12 have begun teaching computer science in their classrooms, starting as early as Kindergarten.
"One kid started yelling my name, and it felt weird because I was sitting down trying to pay attention and everyone else in the classroom started looking at me like, 'What's going on?' " Green said.
In 1968 Mr. Bliss moved from the newsroom to the classroom, starting the broadcast journalism program at the School of Communications at American University in Washington.
When he presents himself at school, Rufus trots down the hall to the principal's office, where he is told, unequivocally, "No pigs in school!" "Why not?" asks Rufus, and the principal lists all the naughty and disruptive things a pig would do in school if he were allowed to attend — playing leapfrog in the classroom, starting food fights in the cafeteria, and turning drawings into airplanes.
"There's a heightened disappointment cycle about new technology that plays out in general in our ecosystem, and we're seeing that play out to some extent in edtech," says Kapor. "When new technology in the classroom starts happening, some people get very excited and think of it as a panacea.
I was less aware of how different the classroom starts to look when your own child is in it.
Once inside the classroom, starting from the front right hand seat of the class, we picked a random number and systematically selected the required number of students.
To maintain a cross-over in the design, in half of the classrooms, we started ventilating at 800 ppm, the other six schools started with a setting of 1200 ppm.
