February 22, 2016
Delaware
CapeGazette
Cape art students to exhibit at Milton Arts Guild
Partnering with James Ruback and his visual arts class at Cape Henlopen High School, Milton Arts Guild has invited art students to participate in an exhibit at the MAG Gallery. The exhibit will run Wednesday, March 2, through Saturday, March 26. The public is invited to a reception at the gallery from 5 to 7 p.m., Friday, March 11, when the student artists will be on hand to discuss their work with visitors. This show might be the first opportunity for some of those students to display their work in a gallery open to the public and to share that work for critique with experienced MAG artists.
Delaware Public Media
UD partnership to address education challenges for low-income and at risk students
Two prominent University of Delaware alumni are establishing a fund to improve education for low-income and at-risk students around the state. The $100,000 Fund for Urban Education is a gift from alumni Quinetta Roberson, now a Villanova professor, and Tony Allen, a UD trustee who also chairs the Wilmington Education Improvement Commission. It comes along with the new UD Partnership for Public Education, led by Roberson and Allen. Allen says the partnership will start by specifically helping implement WEIC’s plan to redistrict long-segregated Wilmington schools, which just got conditional approval from the State Board of Education last Thursday.
Sen. Carper hears out students on college affordability
About one in nine Delawareans carry some form of student debt, according to a report from the White House last year. Sen. Tom Carper met with officials and students at Delaware Tech and Delaware State University this week to talk about college affordability. On Friday, Carper spoke with a few students at Delaware State University who were awarded the Inspire scholarship, which helps offset the cost of tuition for high-performing in-state students. “Out of mouth of babes comes a lot of wisdom. And today we heard just great wisdom from students here. One of the questions I asked them was: What do you wish you’d known in when you were in high school that you know now?
Enlighten me: Concord High students’ invention competing for national award
While there’s been numerous local and national efforts to employ those with disabilities — numbers show that we could be doing better. Only 58 percent of 20-somethings with autism are employed in the U.S. So there’s a huge need for innovation to help more people with disabilities find work — and to work more productively. At Concord High School in Wilmington, six seniors – Nick Adinolfi, Sophia Friedeborn, Devlan Horner, Carson Hughes, Taylor Nguyen, and Michael Slemko – worked with Christiana Care Health System to engineer a solution for one of their interns, Justin Hall.
Delaware State News
3 Kent schools cited for excellence
Academic achievements at 12 schools in Delaware were officially recognized Friday by the state’s Department of Education. Three Kent County schools — Dover Air Force Base Middle, Lake Forest North Elementary and Lake Forest South Elementary — were among those receiving recognition. “I congratulate the students for their hard work and perseverance and thank the professional educators and leaders who supported them on their journey to achieve excellence,” said Delaware Secretary of Education Steven Godowsky.
Delaware Department of Education
State honors reward, recognition schools
Press Release
Thirteen schools from across the state were honored today for their students’ academic achievements. Secretary of Education Steven Godowsky lauded the 12 winners of the state’s Reward and Recognition School awards during a ceremony at Dover Air Force Base Middle School; a 13th building was named a School of Continued Excellence. Godowsky recognized the dedication and hard work of the entire school communities, the educators, students, parents and community partners whose collaboration helped the schools succeed.
Newsworks
Wilmington redistricting plan lurches forward
Delaware’s State Board of Education approved a plan Thursday that would place a majority of Wilmington students in one school district for the first time in decades. Kind of. After more than four hours of tense debate and rollicking public comment, the state board approved the Wilmington Education Improvement Commission’s (WEIC) redistricting plan with two conditions. Condition one: The Delaware Department of Education must approve plans detailing how the Christina School District, which would be leaving Wilmington under the proposed plan, will turnaround three inner-city schools that would be under its control until 2018-19.
Sussex County Post
Student achievement lands Sussex schools reward, recognition
Southern Delaware School of the Arts and Sussex Academy were among 13 schools statewide honored Friday for student academic achievement. Delaware Secretary of Education Steven Godowsky lauded the 12 winners of the state’s Reward and Recognition School awards during a ceremony at Dover Air Force Base Middle School. A 13th school was named a School of Continued Excellence. Sec. Godowsky recognized the dedication and hard work of the entire school communities, the educators, students, parents and community partners whose collaboration helped the schools succeed.
The News Journal
Reclaiming professional development for teachers
Opinion by Tim Brewer, science teacher at St. Georges Technical High School, Melissa Grunewald, dual – certified elementary teacher at Phillip C. Showell Elementary School and Lisa Mims, fourth grade teacher at Pleasantville Elementary
Often, and increasingly lately, teachers can easily feel powerless and disconnected from decisions made outside their classrooms. Even if those decisions have a direct impact on their student outcomes, school quality, or parent engagement. It can often feel as though things are done to us, rather than with us, by us, or for us. What if there was a way for teachers to reclaim the narrative and actually help to shape the future of education? What if there was a way for us to truly engage with students and families on a large scale in meaningful, life-changing ways?
National
Billings Gazette
Why public education matters most
Opinion by Darrel Ehrlick, editor of the Billings Gazette
Apple pie, baseball and jazz — all things that are all-American. But nothing is more American than public education, and nothing should be more ferociously protected than our public education system. For all the teary-eyed patriotic pablum that is constantly shoved down our throat by flag-waving politicians, nothing should be more revered than a public education system which can trace its roots back to American democracy lion Thomas Jefferson.
Herald – Mail Media
Bill would require 150 minutes weekly of physical education for MD. elementary – school students
In an effort to combat childhood obesity, a bill would set the minimum requirement for physical activity for students in public elementary schools in Maryland at 150 minutes per week. The bill, called The Student Health and Fitness Act, was introduced Thursday by Del. Jay Walker, D-Prince George’s, to the state House Ways and Means committee. Walker said Wednesday that the bill would set more consistent standards for schools throughout the state.
NWI Times
Education funding could be next front in Illinois budget battle
Illinois’ public schools have been largely unscathed in the budget battle that has been roiling the state for the past year, and Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner would like to keep it that way. In his budget address last week, Rauner called for increased funding for early childhood, elementary and secondary education and for it to be dealt with separately from any other issue. The first-term governor exempted schools from the current budget impasse, now in its eighth month, by signing an education funding bill last summer while vetoing the rest.
Ottumwa Courier
Classroom of the future unveiled
Ever wonder what the classroom of the future may look like? On Monday, at Great Prairie Area Education Association’s (GPAEA) office in Ottumwa will give educators an inside look at what a classroom of the 21st Century may look like during an open house from 3 to 7 p.m. Room 21C is the result of re-designed learning efforts to create a learning environment specifically designed to promote both collaborative and personalized learning through the use of technology.
The New York Times
A rising call to promote STEM education and cut liberal arts funding
When the Kentucky governor, Matt Bevin, suggested last month that students majoring in French literature should not receive state funding for their college education, he joined a growing number of elected officials who want to nudge students away from the humanities and toward more job-friendly subjects like electrical engineering. Frustrated by soaring tuition costs, crushing student loan debt and a lack of skilled workers, particularly in science and technology, more and more states have adopted the idea of rewarding public colleges and universities for churning out students educated in fields seen as important to the economy.