August 18, 2015
Delaware News
The News Journal
New education secretary has reputation for teamwork
Tensions between Delaware’s Department of Education and local educators grew during Mark Murphy’s three years as secretary. It is a divide, colleagues say, that veteran educator Steven Godowsky, who is set to replace Murphy this fall, can begin to repair.
Today’s schools are falling apart
Letter to the editor by Bunnie Gallagher Williams, Seaford
Sports are an important part of school, but your newspaper completely forgot that the main duty of our schools is to teach the 3 R’s. What are the students learning in Seaford?
Cape Gazette
Cape’s new assistant principal brings real world experience
Angela Johnson helped New Orleans and Chester schools reorganize.
WDEL
Brandywine unanimously approves new GPA policy
On a night honoring educators in Brandywine, the school board unanimously approved a recommendation that will affect how high school students are graded. The new weighted GPA policy goes into effect immediately.
Delaware State News
Delaware Tech camp programs teach entrepreneurial skills
Designed to provide insight into the foundation of skills and education needed to start and operate a business, the camps included projects that took participants through the basic steps of creating a business — coming up with an idea or product, creating the product, marketing the product and selling the product.
Cadets ready to report for duty at military charter school in Clayton
On Aug. 26, about 210 high school freshmen and sophomores are set to arrive at First State Military Academy in Clayton for their first day of school. Modeled after Delaware Military Academy in Wilmington, the school will offer a Marine JROTC program.
Newark Post
Christina unveils tighter budget for coming school year
The Christina School District is making significant cuts to its spending plan in order to stay afloat in the aftermath of two failed referendums that left the district with a multimillion-dollar budget deficit.
National News
Education Week
States gaining a say on school accountability
Whether a rewrite of the No Child Left Behind Act makes it over the finish line this year, the federally driven accountability system at the heart of the law seems destined to go the way of the Blockbuster video.
As budget battle looms, education department warns against early-ed. cuts
Blog post by Lauren Camera
The U.S. Department of Education went on the offense Monday to protect federal education programs ahead of looming spending battles in Congress to stave of a government shutdown prior to the end of the fiscal year, Oct. 1. Specifically, the department took aim at the appropriations bills that passed through the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives that would slash funding for federal education programs by $1.7 billion and $2.8 billion, respectively.
The Brookings Institution
The complicated politics of national standards: The many sources of opposition
Opposition to the Core does not stem from a single source and is not confined to members of one political party. People dislike the Common Core for different reasons. In this post, I will identify various sources of opposition to the Common Core as well as assess (and in some instances dispel) the stated reasons for opposition.
The Oregonian
Oregon teacher evaluations to count student improvement on Common Core tests
Oregon teachers this year will adjust to a new facet of the state’s fledgling evaluation system: How much did their students’ scores on rigorous Smarter Balanced exams improve?
EducationNext
The 2015 EdNext Poll on School Reform
Public thinking on testing, opt out, common core, unions, and more.