National Education Technology Plan - Baker School District

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Where We Are Today Why do we need systemic change? It is important to understand the national crisis that underscores the demand for accountability in education. Today, the United States spends more money on education than any other nation except Switzerland, averaging more than $8700 per student (federal, state and local) in constant dollars for elementary and secondary education. 8 Finding (in billions of dollars) 25- 20- 15- 10- 5- 0- 1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Funding (constant dollars) Long Term Trend NAEP Reading Score NAEP Reading Scores (Age 9) and ESEA Funding (in 2004 dollars) ESRA Reading Score NEPA Scale Score Over the past 20 years, America has invested hundreds of billions of dollars in education. For the 2003-04 school year alone, expenditures at local, state and federal levels on elementary and secondary education exceeded $500 billion. 9 Despite this investment, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading scores have remained essentially flat during the same 20- year period, with 31 percent of our nation’s 4th graders scoring at or above proficient on the assessment. 10 The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 is beginning to reverse the trend as the nation rises to the historic challenges of access and quality set forth by both Brown v. Board of Education and “A Nation at Risk.” 12
No Child Left Behind created new standards of accountability. Students have to demonstrate improvement over time and be proficient in reading and mathematics. Importantly, achievement gaps between different socio-economic backgrounds must be identified – and closed – so that all children regardless of race and income level can read and do mathematics at grade levels by 2014. This single piece of legislation has fundamentally altered the education landscape. Its premise – that all children can learn – is profound in its simplicity but multifaceted in its implementation. President Bush’s FY2005 budget for education represents continuing increases of federal education spending to historic levels with a 49 percent increase (from FY 2001-2005) for elementary and secondary education, including but not limited to: 11 • $13.3 billion in Title I funding for disadvantaged students, for a total that represents a 52 percent increase since FY 2001. • $1.2 billion for reading programs, totaling four times the amount spent in 2001. • $11.1 billion for special education programs, for a 75 percent increase since 2001. 12 No Child Left Behind’s four main principles are: • Holding schools accountable to show students are learning; • Increasing flexibility for schools in reaching goals; • Providing more options for parents to choose outside of lowperforming schools; • Using research on what works best for student learning. Constant Dollars Average Expenditures Per Pupil (for Fall Enrollment) 9500- 8700- 6900- 5600- 4300- 3000- 0- 1975 1970 1965 1995 1990 1985 1980 $8,745 2001 School Year Source: National Center for Education Statistics 13
Page 1 and 2: Toward A New Golden Age In American
Page 3 and 4: Toward A New Golden Age In American
Page 5 and 6: The Impact of No Child Left Behind
Page 7 and 8: Teachers and students are transform
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Page 11 and 12: A Nation on the Move Twenty-one yea
Page 13: Today’s students, of almost any a
Page 17 and 18: Twenty years of national data show
Page 19 and 20: • 49 percent say they may be inte
Page 21 and 22: These are clearly exciting times fo
Page 23 and 24: like that. We should not have to ca
Page 25 and 26: Success Stories from Schools That A
Page 27 and 28: o language learners to compare achi
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Page 33 and 34: New Mexico Two years ago in New Mex
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Page 37 and 38: courses by mail. But through today
Page 39 and 40: The Impact of No Child Left Behind
Page 41 and 42: A National Education Technology Pla
Page 43 and 44: effective use of technology to enha
Page 45 and 46: • Encourage that broadband is ava
Page 47 and 48: Conclusions • There is no dispute
Page 49 and 50: Appendices A. Joint Federal Activit
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Page 53 and 54: APPENDIX B How This Plan Was Develo
Page 55 and 56: Kendall Starkweather, International
Page 57 and 58: Tom Clark, TA Consulting, Springfie
Page 59 and 60: Garret Sern, EDUCAUSE, Washington,
Page 61 and 62: Joe Simpson, Council of Chief State
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APPENDIX D Endnotes 1 National Comm
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17 Ibid. See http://www.nces.ed.gov
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43 Ibid. 44 Ibid. 45 See State Educ
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