September 2, 2015
Delaware News
Delaware Public Media
Wilmington Educational Improvement Commission holds second town hall
Five members of the Wilmington Education Improvement Committee held a second town hall meeting Tuesday night at Cab Calloway School in Wilmington.
Del Tech to coach minority students for futures in STEM
With money from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services grant, Del Tech will select minority eighth and ninth graders from various New Castle County schools, help prepare them for jobs in STEM and track their progress throughout high school.
Delaware 105.9
Red Clay residents raise concerns over redistricting proposal
Tony Allen and other members of the committee listened to resident’s concerns about why Red Clay, which is already one of the biggest districts in the state, should have to take on even more students and how much the influx will cost tax payers.
WDEL
Red Clay residents raise concerns over redistricting proposal
Members of the newly established Wilmington Education Improvement Commission (WEIC) continued to gather input from residents in Red Clay School District during a town hall Tuesday night.
The News Journal
Delaware teen’s #theinspiringproject goes global
Two years ago, almost by accident, the Greenwood teen started a campaign called “The Inspiring Project.” What started out as a social media experimentation, turned into a project tens of thousands of followers later aimed at reducing thoughts of suicide and bullying with the hashtag #theinspiringproject. Until this past legislative session, Delaware was one of less than 15 states to not require school personnel to have suicide prevention training.
STEM grant benefits minority New Castle County students
A $2.4 million federal grant will give more than 100 minority students extra support in the STEM fields – science, technology, engineering and mathematics – over the next five years.
Newsworks
Delaware receives $2.4 million to support STEM program for minority students
New federal money will be targeted to young minorities in Delaware. The goal is get more people into science, technology, engineering and math fields so they can be prepared for increased jobs in these areas. Delaware Technical Community College in Wilmington will receive a $2.4 million federal grant to fund “STEM UP Delaware!” a program that will offer resources to minority high school students to be prepared for STEM education and the perceived job market.
Delaware Division of the Arts
Press release
New TranspARTation Grant opportunity for schools
Recognizing the importance of connecting schools with cultural institutions to promote creative learning, the Delaware Division of the Arts is now accepting applications for TranspARTation Grants— a program developed to assist schools with transportation costs to attend arts and cultural events throughout the state.
Cape Gazette
Smarter Balanced test scores out Sept. 2
Preliminary results from the latest statewide test for public school students will be released Sept. 2. Final results for Smarter Balanced assessments will be released in mid-September, when families also will receive score reports, said Delaware Department of Education officials.
National News
The Brookings Institution
The complicated politics of national standards: Even more sources of opposition
Blog by Patrick McGuinn
In a previous post, I detailed several different sources of discontentment that various coalitions have cited as reason to oppose the Common Core State Standards. In this post, I will identify and discuss even more sources of opposition to the standards.
The Hechinger Report
Teachers colleges struggle to blend technology into teacher training
More than 2,100 schools of education in the nation graduate more than 190,000 new teachers annually, but there are no national standards for integrating educational technology into their curriculum, according to the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.
Innovative math program succeeds at Indian schools, before funding is cut
Before 2006, when First People’s first came to Wyoming Indian Elementary, almost none of the students rated as proficient or advanced in third grade on Wyoming’s statewide standardized math tests. After the program was implemented, that number jumped to over 60 percent every year until 2013, when Wyoming rolled out a new test, and scores dropped statewide.
The Washington Post
Report: Chronic school absenteeism is contributing to academic gaps
The nation’s large and persistent education achievement gaps are rooted in a largely hidden crisis of chronic absenteeism from school, especially among low-income and minority children, according to a new report that compiles recent research on school attendance.
The Wall Street Journal
Children don’t have constitutional right to switch schools, appeals court rules
Public-school parents don’t have a constitutional right to decide where to send their children to school, an appeals court ruled. The Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday rejected claims by a group of Arkansas parents that they had a right to transfer their kids out of a struggling school district in northeast Arkansas to neighboring districts where they thought the children could be better educated.