Composition: History & Theory: 2000 - 2009
2000-09
Description
- 2000: The first crew arrived at the International Space Station
- 2000: Hillary Rodham Clinton was elected to the U.S. Senate – the 1st First Lady to do this
- 2000: Bush v. Gore post-election fiasco
- 2000: 51 million people tuned in to the first Survivor finale
- 2000: Almost 50,000 people marched in Columbia, S.C., to protest the flying of the Confederate battle flag over the state Capitol
- 2000: Supreme Court on aid to private/religious education, in Mitchell v. Helms, ruled 6-3 to uphold the provision of federal aid to religious schools in the form of computers and library books.
- 2000: Israeli troops withdrew from Lebanese security zone after 22 years of occupation in May
- 2000: Mad Cow disease panicked Europe
- 2001: George W. Bush was sworn in as the 43rd president
- 2001: National Education Summit. Governors, business leaders, and educators committed to continuing emphasis on standards, paying experienced teachers more to teach in low-performing schools, creating high standards for prospective teachers, and increasing resources for education.
- 2001: No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), a reauthorization of ESEA, enacted with bi-partisan support. Required all students to be “proficient” in reading, mathematics, and science by 2014, with Adequate Yearly Progress measures to determine school success; annual standardized tests (developed by the states) in grades 3-8 in reading and mathematics; reports from all schools by disaggregated groups of students; sanctions on schools not meeting AYP requirements; school plans to close achievement gaps. Opponents (including NSBA, AASA, NEA, National Conference of State Legislatures) claimed that low funding and high costs would create financial crisis for state and local governments.
- 2001: English Language Acquisition Act (part of NCLB) replaced Bilingual Education Act; required that LEP students be tested in English after three years in the U.S.
- 2001: Bush abandoned global-warming treaty (Kyoto Protocol), angering European leaders
- 2001: Race riots in Cincinnati continued for several days following a shooting of an unarmed black man by a white police officer
- 2001: U.S. millionaire Dennis Tito became the first space tourist
- 2001: Terrorists attacked the United States (Sept. 11). In response, U.S. and Britain launched bombing campaigns against Taliban and al-Qaeda.
- 2002: Supreme Court on aid to private/religious education upheld Cleveland’s school choice program allowing the use of public funds to provide vouchers for children to attend private and religious schools.
- 2002: Euro banknotes and coins became legal tender in twelve of the European Union’s member states
- 2002: The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan officially began on March 1st
- 2002: The U.S. was re-elected to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, one year after losing the seat it had held for 50 years
- 2002: Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, joined the United Nations in September
- 2004: MySpace officially launched
- 2006: Facebook allows anyone to set up account
- 2007: Harvard University selected its first female president, Drew Faust (Lawrence Summers, who held the seat before her stated in 2005, “intrinsic differences in aptitude between men and women could be a reason why fewer women succeed in the fields of math and science.”)
- 2007: Scooter Libby, former White House aide was convicted of obstruction of justice, perjury, and false statements in CIA identity leak case
- 2007: The Sub Prime Mortgage industry’s largest provider filed for bankruptcy
- 2007: iPhone released
- 2008: Barack Obama was elected the 44th President of the United States in November
- 2008: Apple releases ultra-thin MacBook Air notebook (less than one inch thick)
- 2009: there were 425 programs in creative writing registered as members of AWP in January
Author
Written by Rebecca Butorac; updated by Ashley Evans on 4/19/11
Date of Upload
3/15/09