August 1, 2017
Delaware News
Cape Gazette
Cape’s call for school-naming group riles community
The family of longtime Milton-area educator Herman O. Brittingham and many family friends attended a Cape Henlopen school board meeting to insist the new elementary school in Milton should retain the name of the existing school: H.O. Brittingham Elementary.
Delaware State News
School spirit: Preserving the past – Capital School District honors Booker T. Washington School
Childhood memories formed many years ago have transformed into the history of today for former students of Booker T. Washington Elementary School. Capital School District officials have made sure that the school’s history has been preserved and its’ stories are now on display as they unveiled two new areas for mementos right inside the school’s historic wing off Forrest Avenue on Monday afternoon.
Department of Health and Social Services
Delawareans urged to donate school supplies, gift cards to DHSS’ Adopt-A-Student program by Aug. 4
As you prepare for the upcoming school year, add Delaware’s children in need to your Back-to-School shopping lists by participating in the annual Adopt-A-Student program. In Delaware, the Human Services Council, Inc., in partnership with the Department of Health and Social Services, is seeking individuals, businesses, and organizations to help provide much needed backpacks, school supplies, and gift cards to support families who cannot afford to purchase uniforms, for thousands of the state’s children living in poverty or in low-income households.
National News
Education Week
Is there really a ‘skills gap’?
It’s an ominous-sounding argument, and it’s making the rounds among policymakers: Millions of jobs are going unfilled because U.S. employers can’t find workers with the right sets of skills. The theory that a “skills gap” is hobbling business recently led President Donald Trump to propose a massive expansion of apprenticeships to fuel the jobs pipeline and let students “earn while they learn.”
NPR
Guess what? We’re all born with mathematical abilities
As an undergraduate at the University of Arizona, Kristy vanMarle knew she wanted to go to grad school for psychology, but wasn’t sure what lab to join. Then, she saw a flyer: Did you know that babies can count? “I thought, No way. Babies probably can’t count, and they certainly don’t count the way that we do,” she says. But the seed was planted, and vanMarle started down her path of study.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Teens help fight lead exposure in homes through education, blood tests
Getting the word out about the dangers of lead, and how it threatens the health of young children and pregnant women, has taken to the streets this summer. Pittsburgh high schoolers Willie Knight, 16, and Charles Powell, 14, spent a warm afternoon last week tracking customer traffic at two stores in Lincoln-Lemington as research for a lead education program designed and carried out by young people.
Salina Journal
Student success topic at education meeting
Measuring student success in Kansas now will mean more than looking at test scores, Mark Tallman, associate executive director of advocacy for the Kansas Association of School Boards, said Monday during a meeting at Salina’s Hageman Education Center. “For the first time in really 25 years, we’re changing our accreditation system. The new system is designed to be much broader that looking just at test scores,” Tallman said.
The 74 Million
What bullying looks like in today’s classrooms: 3 new charts that explain changes in school violence
Reports of bullying and violence in America’s public schools are on the decline, according to a report published Thursday by the U.S. Education Department’s National Center for Education Statistics. The figures come from the department’s latest report on crime, violence, discipline, and safety in America’s public schools, which outlines data from a national survey of 3,553 schools during the 2015–16 academic year.