Education between 2005 thru 2025

1. Education between 2005 thru 2025 Summary by Tom Hajek

2. Click Assumption of Events that Happened • Major Events that happened from 2005 to 2025 • NCLB was dropped during the Congressional Hearings of 2009 • New guidelines were developed using input from teachers and community members during a 3 year town hall meetings from 2009 to 2012

3. Click Assumption of Events that Happened • President Clinton implemented a new formula for Title One Funds requiring 90% of all Federal Funds must be used for direct student involvement. (Teacher Salaries, Classroom Material, Site Maintence, Student Achievement. • Federal Funding for Teacher Training and Loan Forgiveness to teachers in K-12, equal to 50,000 or equal to 4 years teaching training which ever is greater.

4. Click Assumption of Events that Happened • Teachers are now able to retire at age 50 with 20 years of service. They will receive 80 % of the retirement. • Students in the United States are now given a laptop computer in place of a text book. This will give students access to the internet, and resources that are not always available on outdated books.

5. Click Assumption of Events that Happened • All educational materials are now downloadable off the internet, and major book retails are required to provide schools will a computer software version of their text books for student use.

6. First Version of History • 2008-2010 Laptops are given to all students in schools through out the United States • 2010 President Clinton requires that all Federal Title 1 Funds are spent 85% in the classroom (Teachers Salaries, Smaller Class Size, etc..) • 2010-2015 Classrooms beginning to integrate learning communities were classrooms are linked to each other around the United States. Students beginning to learn from other students across the United States

7. First Version of History • 2015 to 2020 Teachers beginning to build a data base of information that brings together ideas and concepts for teachers and student through out the country. They begin to identify needed resources for certain areas of the country and are rapid to solve them. • 2020 to 2025 Classrooms are now places of learning were information and data are available to students by the push of a button. Teachers are sharing ideas and having meetings about the needs of students with professionals around the world, to give students the best educational experience they can. Teachers have access to resources and professionals to solve problems and situations before they become problems in the classroom.

8. Second Version of Education • School Boards around the country join teachers in making technology a priority, but have very little knowledge in how to implement it. • Learning Communities are Starting to be developed to share knowledge in the community and trough out the country. • Teachers are being recruited for their knowledge base and start to gain competitive salaries and this attracts more people to the educational field. • 2008-2010 Teachers are given a living wage requirement that all teachers must be paid a minimum of 2 times the average wage in their county.

9. Second Version of Education • 2010 President Clinton requires that all Federal Title 1 Funds are spent 85% in the classroom (Teachers Salaries, Smaller Class Size, etc..) • 2010-2015 Students are given funds for computer in their homes and text books are given to students using disc which creates a savings to the school district of millions of dollars, and decreasing the time between the printing of new books.

10. Second Version of Education • 2015 to 2020 Learning Communities become the norm in the class were students from around the country are sharing ideas and concepts. This breaks down race, economics, and cultural divides thought out the country. • 2020 to 2025 Learning Communities have evolved into Learning Classrooms that are being to be help completely on the net, and giving students access to knowledge in areas of the country that can not support a school district, or resources necessary for a up to date classroom or school.

11. Third Version of Education • Computers have not bee introduced to the students as common place. • Teachers are given up to date classrooms were Multi-Media and Think Boards are Standard, but given no training on how to use them. • 2008-2010 Students are given up to date text books that are currently 3 years behind the times because of the time needed to print them. • 2010 President Clinton requires that all Federal Title 1 Funds are spent 85% in the classroom (Teachers Salaries, Smaller Class Size, etc..)

12. Third Version of Education • 2010-2015 Classrooms try to integrate learning communities were classrooms are linked to each other around the United States. With limited or no access to computers for students and limited to no training for teachers they have to use email, and letters which do not give the immediate feed back to students and teacher. This does not allow for the constant feed back and discussion the learning communities were set out to achieve. • 2015 to 2020 Teachers rely of different web sites to gain information and develop lessons plans available to all teachers in the United States, but few teachers know about the information or how to access it.

13. Third Version of Education • 2020 to 2025 Classrooms are still pretty much like they were in 2007 with computer in every classroom that have limited or no impact on the student learning. Teachers are still trying to figure out ways of integrating technology into the classroom, but have no support from administration because they have very little control or influence over their own budgets or resources.