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The Every Student Succeeds Act, which
The No Child Left Behind Act brought exposure to wide education disparities between white students and students of color, state school chiefs acknowledged at a recent Council of Chief State School Officers policy forum here. But during the law's nearly 14-year lifespan, as the federal government rolled out strict mandates for how states and districts had to turn around underperforming schools and evaluate teachers, those gaps barely closed, they said. Now, a long overdue update of NCLB
struggles? It's not the only factor, but it's a critical one. Smartphones provide teens 24/7 access to playtime technologies that research shows drag down their academic success.
Technology plays a role in nearly every aspect of our lives today -it's how we connect with friends and family, discover the weather forecast, find jobs, play, and importantly learn. Yet too few of us, from our youngest to our eldest Americans, are going beyond being a 'user' of technology to becoming a maker, coder, discoverer, tinkerer, designer ---and harnessing the power of computing to solve new challenges and make everyones' lives healthier, safer, more efficient, better informed, and more fun.
