April 9, 2015
Delaware News
edSurge
How Delaware teachers put a personalized framework into practice
Article by Jennifer Hollstein, Secondary English Teacher and Teacher Evaluator at Charter School of Wilmington and Robyn Howton, a National Board Certified English Teacher at Mount Pleasant High School. Both are members of the Rodel Teacher Council.
If we, as educators, are going to drive personalization across Delaware and the country, we need to own the term and work together to move from definition to action. In February, the Rodel Teacher Council hosted a Personalized Learning Workshop, where teachers from all across the state came together to learn how personalized learning can transform education in Delaware. The power of this day came from educators sharing with educators.
Delaware Today
Visionary for educating children
The new CEO at Wilmington’s Community Education Building sets the bar high for its charter-school students to succeed.
The News Journal
Delaware charter school audits under scrutiny
In the wake of bombshell allegations that the co-leaders of a charter school made thousands of dollars in personal purchases on school credit cards, some lawmakers want the state auditor’s office to run charter audits to make sure taxpayer money isn’t being misused.
Sallie Mae donates $30,000 for job skills program
Sallie Mae has provided Junior Achievement of Delaware with a $30,000 grant to fund its 2015 Spring Break Career & College Readiness Academy.
Delaware Public Media
Local STEM group helps local kids celebrate National Robotics Week
In recognition of National Robotics Week, STEM organization FAME – the Forum to Advance Minorities in Engineering – holds its fourth annual Delaware Robotics Day this Saturday at Barclays Bank in Wilmington.
National News
Education Week
Dueling tests, standards put squeeze on Tennessee teachers
Some education policy researchers and professors in schools of education worry that the politicized education arena and the state’s indecisiveness over the common core could have significant ramifications for its teaching corps.
Star Gazette
Some N.Y. schools could face takeover
More than 170 schools across the state could face a takeover if they don’t boost their lagging academic performance. The state’s new $142 billion budget paves the way for an outside “receiver” to step in and oversee a school that has long been struggling to improve its graduation rates and student test scores.
The Hechinger Report
How schools can lower suspension rates and raise graduation rates
Since Metropolitan Business Academy adopted a trauma-sensitive approach to discipline, the high school’s number of suspensions has dropped by two-thirds. It is now 3 percent.
Hartford Courant
CT to use more rigorous system for renewal
Beginning in May, Connecticut’s State Board of Education is expected to use a new more rigorous process to decide whether to renew the charters of six existing charter schools. The development was prompted by a scandal involving the Hartford-based Jumoke Academy charter schools and the Family Urban Schools of Excellence management group.
The Washington Post
Guiding principles for a more enlightened U.S. education policy
By Michael V. McGill, superintendent of the Scarsdale school district in New York and author of “Race to the Bottom: Corporate Reform and the Future of Public Education”
Current policy tries to force improvement by holding educators accountable for students’ test scores and by creating competition among teachers and schools. But these strategies are not improving learning appreciably, let alone creating schools for the 21st century.