August 23, 2016
Delaware News
Newark Post
New principals await students at Newark, Christiana high schools
When Christina School District high schools open on Monday, hundreds of freshmen will walk through the doors ready for a new experience. At Newark and Christiana, so too will the principal. Both schools experienced leadership changes over the summer as last year’s principals each took a position in the district administration.
The News Journal
Why white students need black teachers – by a white teacher
Opinion by Valerie Strauss, education reporter at The Washington Post
One of the key arguments often given for why it is important to increase the diversity of America’s teaching force is that students of color do better academically when they have teachers of color. In this post, a white teacher explains why it is also important for white students to be taught by people of color.
Cultivating Innovation in our schools to up education for kids
Opinion by Ken Hilk, retired senior-level DuPont Company executive
We live in a society that says it values choice, even elevating choice to a kind of moral pinnacle. That is, unless you’re a member of the Washington, D.C., teachers’ union that is offended by Walmart offering selected teachers $490 gift cards, to buy school supplies for their classes.
National News
Idaho Statesman
Warm coat, full tummy, better learning; Boise wades in to new school program
Boise School District staffs have seen how poverty can interfere with learning. Students showing up to school hungry, their clothes dirty or tattered. Parents calling to say their child won’t be at school because of a doctor’s appointment.
NJ.com
After 21 years, local control poised to return to Newark schools next fall
Complete local control of the Newark schools should be fully restored by the 2017-18 school year, according to a report released Monday afternoon by the Newark Education Success Board — the 9-member panel co-created by Gov. Chris Christie and Mayor Ras Baraka last year to help guide the transition back to local control.
NPR
The 50 most segregating school borders in America
The grass is greener … if you’re a student in Detroit, looking across your school district’s boundary with the neighboring Grosse Pointe public schools. Nearly half of Detroit’s students live in poverty; that means a family of four lives on roughly $24,000 a year — or less.
The Newnan Times – Herald
Apprenticeship program prepares students while keeping options open
Ten Coweta County high-schoolers are in the national spotlight, selected as the inaugural class of the United States’ first German-style apprenticeship program – and poised to blaze a new trail in Georgia’s grow-your-own-workers movement.