The Obama administration's Race to the Top competition, which had cash-strapped states vie for $4 billion in federal funding, pushed states to implement "college and career-ready" standards.
Drafted reform efforts must map out plans to implement college- and career-ready standards, develop accountability systems that assist low-performing schools and schools with persistent achievement gaps, and create improved systems for developing, supporting and evaluating educators.
During the next 24 months, the nation's education landscape will change greatly as states and districts face numerous challenges, including dealing with shrinking budgets, implementing college- and career-ready standards for all students; and using technology-administered assessments to gauge student comprehension and learning.
Educators held a rally in Houston to drum up support for the subject, while high school representatives from across the Rio Grande Valley, a heavily Hispanic area in South Texas, prepared for a meeting Saturday on implementing college-credit Mexican-American studies courses.
Clinton will come in with a long list of domestic policies she'll want to implement: her college tuition plan, a push for more infrastructure planning, some kind of gun control, a way to fix Obamacare's problems, an effort to fight climate change, a higher minimum wage, and immigration reform.
Even in higher education, the flipped classroom is gaining significant ground, being implemented on college campuses across the country.
Another app, similar to the LiveSafe app being implemented on college campuses, might encourage underage youth to report instances of drinking and related problems via text messages to the police.
Georgia's submission includes a plan to implement a new College and Career Ready Performance Index that varies based on grade levels.
A 29 year old fourth year female student who was 'tremendously' committed to the Colleges wrote: "I felt a need for better advising programs during my first year and was excited that the administration had plans to address the lack of faculty advising by implementing the Colleges program".
The article, The SAT and Admission: Racial Bias and Economic Inequality by Ethan Biamonte, gives an overview of how colleges implement the SAT into their application process and how it is "unethical for the SAT to be used in college admission because it has cultural and economic biases that oppress low-income groups, racial minorities and females".
The escalation of tuition, the crippling rise of student debt and a persistently high jobless rate over recent years have rightly prompted educators, politicians and other policy makers to float and implement methods to make college less financially onerous, in part by collapsing the time it takes for students to get their degrees.
