Integrate LMS Teaching Tools for New Generation Success

With less-than-desirable federal test results making the headlines, the call for public education reform--including better salaries for educators, more federal funding, and the inclusion of more technology such as online course options and LMSs--has become more urgent.

Surprisingly, while education should be and typically is a "recession-proof" area of work, it has not proven to be so in the U.S. during this crisis.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. economy lost 273,000 jobs last month. Of those lost jobs, 29,000 were in state and local education, making the total losses in that category over the past five months 143,000.

Obviously, this reflects a huge change in U.S. educational standards. These standards are ingrained in our cultural heritage and go back to the 19th century, when the U.S. owed its success to the quality and high standards of its education. In the beginning of the 20th century, even more advancement was seen in the U.S. when the "high school revolution" took place. And in the later half of the 20th century, the U.S. established a competitive position in higher education.

However, American educational success was greatly based on the quality of its public schools. These days, state governments, who are responsible for their own public education systems, are in dire straits. And at a time when practically any federal government spending is viewed in a negative light, it's time for schools to start thinking out of the box.

The need for cost-effective and efficient online tools like LMSs to help educators boost student performance is revealed in the recent math test results.

According to new standardized test results, New York's state elementary math achievement has fallen for the first time in nearly ten years. This year's fourth grade test results from federally funded National Assessment of Educational Progress reveal that New York's scaled scores dropped two points from 2007. The state's latest average score is 241, on a scale of zero to 500. (National scores have stayed flat, at 239.)

The results came as a bit of an embarrassment to some Albany officials, as it was apparent that even though federal tests of fourth-graders showed no gains in New York from 2007, the state's own tests show steady improvement.

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