States Department of Education is a natural first stop for an online field trip. The No Child Left Behind Act was imperfect but deserves recognition as an important step towards recognizing the needs of all children in the country. This analysis is good in the sense that it shows a prospective reader of the NCLB website what to expect. The headers are well-organized, including information related to education laws, information related to student loan programs, and other pertinant knowledge for educators, students, and parents. Especially relevant are the pages that are about FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act), IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Act), and… Continue Reading...
Aside from training, schools must evaluate how well special education teachers handle the integration of technology and if such integration improves student learning outcomes. With schools requiring students to perform well in order to receive government funding (No Child Left Behind Act), it became increasingly important to see positive test results from students. If technology integration proves students learn more and thus score better on standardized tests, this will provide proof that technology integration should be the main… Continue Reading...
process itself have changed in substantive ways. Indeed, the passage of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and the No Child Left Behind Act have made it clear that a high quality education must provided to all young learners irrespective their unique learning needs and that teachers can play an important role as advocates for students and by becoming civic leaders in their community, a role that is facilitated by a clearly articulated personal philosophy of education (Rodd, 2006).
Notwithstanding these trends and given the dramatic changes in American demographics in recent years, the theoretical educational perspectives of John Dewey remain salient today with respect to creating and promoting… Continue Reading...
of technology and if such integration improves student learning outcomes. With schools requiring students to perform well in order to receive government funding (No Child Left Behind Act), it became increasingly important to see positive test results from students. If technology integration proves students learn more and thus score better on standardized tests, this will provide proof that technology integration should be the main focus.
Assessment is an important part of any change. Assessing the results of technology integration in several ways will allow for accurate interpretation. By evaluating the responses of special education teachers and their attempts at technology integration in their daily instruction, this will provide a better picture of the… Continue Reading...
increase in these pressures throughout the U.S. in recent years due to the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (Roach, 2014), some states have experienced these pressures differently, with teachers in lower-performing states being invariably more likely to teach to the test compared to their counterparts in higher-performing states (Au, 2009). Notwithstanding these state-level differences, however, there has also been a corresponding general increase in the use of standardized tests in the United States over the past 30 years that has profoundly affected the manner in which young people are evaluated for academic progress (Roach, 2014).
Given these criticisms, it is not… Continue Reading...
