By: Karla Phillips There is one key area where K-12 and higher education policy intersect—teacher preparation. Higher education needs college and career ready graduates while K-12 turns around and asks for better equipped teachers. I think it’s safe to say that there is broad agreement on the importance and impact a great teacher can make—a…
State Highlights
This year, the 2014 Digital Learning Report Card features individual State Policy Profiles, examining some of the 422 pieces of digital learning legislation enacted over the past four years. Utah’s 2013 Student Achievement Backpack (UT SB 82) is featured as an example of data backpack policies. To learn more, read the State Policy Profile for Utah in the full Report Card.
- The Statewide Online Education Program saw enrollment increases of more than 300% last year, based on number of course requests of any credit value.
- In part this was due to extension of eligibility to home and private school students.
- Most students choose to enroll in maximum allowable number of credits.
Read more about legislation passed in Utah from 2014.