August 24, 2016
Delaware News
Cape Gazette
Cape district presents H.O.B. site plan
Plans are moving forward on the new H.O. Brittingham Elementary School in Milton, but members of the town’s planning and zoning commission want more details about lighting and landscaping before granting the project its first round of approvals.
Sussex Academy faculty attend summer workshops to prepare for academic year
The Sussex Academy academic counselor and some faculty members have spent time this summer preparing for the upcoming academic school year. In July, Academic Counselor Debbie Fees attended the Potomac and Chesapeake Association for College Admission Counseling Summer Institute at Washington College.
Delaware Public Media
“Chat & Chew” events engage parents, students to help prevent issues of school discipline
The Delaware Center for Justice held an event Tuesday night to help engage the parents of students who’ve been a part of their School Offense Diversion Program. Cindy McDaniel of the DCJ’s School Offense Diversion Program started the “Chat & Chew” events in partnership with Hazel Cole at the Parent Information Center of Delaware a few years ago.
Education First
Delaware’s Plan for Student Success: An Interview with Paul Herdman
Blog post by Anand Vaishnav, principal at Education First
Few states have had as exciting a journey for public education as Delaware. Fueled by multi-million dollar grants, a committed coalition of public and private stakeholders, and a consistent focus on a few key areas, Delaware has witnessed improvements on critical indicators such as graduation rates and children receiving high-quality preschool.
National News
Education Week
Teacher-prep accreditation group seeks to regain traction
When it was conceived in 2010, the Council for Accreditation of Educator Preparation was supposed to unite the teacher-preparation programs behind new expectations, showing once and for all that the embattled field could get its own house in order. It hasn’t worked out that way—at least not yet. Over the past three years, CAEP has experienced high staff turnover coupled with internal divisions about how to interpret its more rigorous standards.
The Atlantic
Why Britain said ‘yes’ to universal preschool
Any child in England who has turned 3 by Sept. 1 is guaranteed 15 hours a week of free childcare or preschool for 38 weeks a year, or 570 hours total, paid for by the national government. “We don’t think of it as socialism at all,” said the Oxford University professor Edward Melhuish, who studies child development and was instrumental in conducting the research that largely led to England’s current policies. “We think of it as common sense.”
The Hechinger Report
America can’t reach its higher ed goals if it excludes its young Latino population
Opinion by Deborah Santiago, coo and vice president at Excelencia in Education
The job market today requires education beyond a high school degree. We encourage our kids that if they can “dream it, they can do it.” For America to become the world leader in college degrees — and to reap the economic and social benefits that come with that success — we must close the educational attainment gap between Latinos and their white counterparts.
Times Daily
Education advocacy committee helping bridge gaps
The Alabama Association of School Board’s new advocacy committee didn’t come together a moment too soon, organization officials say, as their input is more valuable than ever in the current legislative climate. The recently formed AASB advocacy committee is a group of seven school board members, business people or members of the AASB board of directors who provide feedback to organization officials from their respective regions of the state.
WGNTV.com
Chicago Board of Education to vote on $5.4 billion budget
The Chicago Board of Education is expected to vote on a $5.4 billion budget that will include increased property taxes. However, advocacy groups are expressing opposition to the spending plan scheduled to be approved Wednesday. A business-backed watchdog group called The Civic Federation says it can’t back the budget because it relies on money from the state that may not materialize and a large amount of borrowing.