Even the classroom has changed in the past thirty or so years! It was not heard of having a class online years ago but today, here I am taking a class online for the very first time but it is very common for many! In fact, one could graduate with a degree and never set foot out of his or her house to actually go to the college which they graduated from! Going back even further, lets say sixty or seventy years, there were white versus black schools. Segregation. Separate but equal. Even though black schools were lower quality than white- less well funded, with older textbooks and fewer athletic facilities. For black teachers, a transfer to an integrated school was considered a vote of confidence; for white teachers, it was considered a demotion. Today, however, we do not think twice if we have a black or white teacher for ourselves and/or for our children. We can go one step further: today we are taught with both blac
k, white, male, or female teachers from kindergarten on up to graduate school and beyond.
During the Segregation Era, we had the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 965 which was the most lasting Great Society change for the nations schools .This was the precursor to the Bush-era No Child Left Behind. The Act of 965 was created during the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson to help fund low-income families and close the gap in reading, writing, and mathematics. It also helped fund preschool programs. Then came No Child Left Behind Act that was introduced in 200 by President Bush. This required states to test students in reading and math in grades third through eighth and once in high school. If the majority of the school did not pass for three consecutive years, they had to offer after-school programs and tutoring. If the majority of the school did not pass for five consecutive years, the firing of staff took place!