A New School for Brats: Improving the K-12 Education of Military Connected Children

Abstract

This thesis answers the question: How can recent changes in the educational environment be leveraged to improve K12 education for military-connected children? In 2011, the Obama Administration issued a report, Strengthening Our Military Families, in which the president, the vice president, and every member of the presidents cabinet committed to ensuring the well-being of military families, including the education of military-connected children. This study examines the current American public school system and its reliance on the traditional factory-based education model to determine the systems efficacy in educating military-connected children, a student population with unique academic, social, physical, and psychological challenges. Rather than depending on the traditional education model to educate military connected children, this study recommends the implementation of a competency-based personalized learning modelstrengthened by technologywithin an expanded domestic network of the United States Department of Defense Education Activity to improve the K12 education of military-connected children.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2017
Accession Number
AD1046931

Entities

People

  • Robert G. Stimis

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Cyber
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Commerce
  • Department Of Defense
  • Disruptive Technology
  • Distance Learning
  • Education
  • Families (Human)
  • Foreign Relations
  • Governments
  • Instructors
  • Military Families
  • National Governments
  • National Security
  • Psychology
  • Public Policy
  • Social Psychology
  • Students
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Education

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  • Theoretical Analysis.