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Summary of where in the Massachusetts 1993 Education Reform Act Technology Education (Technology/Engineering)

Technology Education is a core discipline in which all Massachusetts students should participate. Technology Engineering Education is the T&E of Stem.
• Page 1, section 1G: There shall be established advisory councils to the board in the following areas: early childhood education; life management skills and home economics; educational personnel; fine arts education; gifted and talented education; math and science education; racial imbalance; parent and community education involvement; special education; bilingual education; technology education; vocational-technical education; ..............
• Page 2, section 1G: The members of the council of technology education  shall have demonstrated scholarship or creativity in, or distinguished service to technology education, and shall be broadly represented in all areas of technology education in the comprehensive school.
• Page 16, section 1D: The board shall direct the commissioner to institute a process to develop academic standards for the core subjects of mathematics, science and technology, history and social science, English, foreign languages, and the arts.
• Page 17, section 1D: The board may also include in the standards a fundamental knowledge of technology education  and computer science and keyboarding skills;........
• Page 17, section 1D ii: The “competency determination” shall be based on the academic standards and curriculum frameworks for tenth graders in the areas of mathematics, science and technology, history and social science, English.   
• Page 21, section 1I: With respect to individual schools, the system shall include instruments designed to assess the extent to which schools and districts succeed in improving or fail improve student performance, as defined by the student acquisition of the skills, competencies and knowledge called for by the academic standards and embodied in the curriculum frameworks established by the board pursuant to sections D and one E in the areas of mathematics, science and technology, history and social science, English, foreign languages, and the arts, as well as by other gauges of student learning judged to be relevant and meaningful to students, parents, teachers, administrators, and taxpayers.
• Page 23, section 1I: Each school district shall file a description of the following instructional procedures and programs with the department every year:
(a) art and music;
(b) technology education;
• Page 71, section 56, last sentence: Vocational technical education also includes applied technology education to be taught by personnel certified in technology education.
The Education Reform Act was amended in June of 1994 to include the following definition of Technology Education:
“ For the purpose of this Chapter, Technology Education shall mean organized educational programs in the K-12 comprehensive schools that offer courses instruction all students how to use and apply technology through critical and creative thinking and problem-solving.  These programs shall provide all students with activities concentrated in an action-based, problem-solving, solution-seeking format, in the areas of: Communication, Construction, Manufacturing, Power/Energy, Transportation and Biotechnology.  Technology Education also means an integrated approach to education through organized programs in the K-12 comprehensive schools which emphasizes career awareness, consumer knowledge, impacts and consequences of technology and understanding the technical systems through the application of science, mathematics, language arts and educational technology.”

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