August 9, 2016
Delaware News
Dover Post
Delaware Striders and Riders award scholarships to five students
The Downstate Delaware Striders and Riders (DDSR), a running and cycling club, has awarded thousands of dollars in scholarships to five 2016 graduates from three Kent County high schools. The scholarships are awarded in memory of former club members Laura Gondeck, who died in 2010, and Addie Lessard, who died in 2013.
The Rodel Foundation
August Teacher Newsletter
Four ways to revolutionize education in your classroom and state. The Rodel Teacher Newsletter is a resource for Delaware’s teachers to learn about teacher leadership opportunities across the state, nation, and world.
The Sussex Countian
Milford police gathering school supplies
The Milford Police Department is collecting school supplies for elementary students in the Milford School District. The drive, which ends Wednesday, Aug. 10, is in the lobby of the Milford Police Department. Anyone interested in donating school supplies can drop them off in boxes found next to the entrance of the department.
National News
The Atlantic
The never ending struggle to improve Head Start
Fifty-one years ago in the White House Rose Garden, former President Lyndon B. Johnson announced the launch of Head Start. That first summer, according to a press release from the time, the program was to serve 530,000 children in 11,000 centers at a cost of $112 million, or $857 million in today’s dollars.
Chalkbeat
How one Queens high school became a safe haven for children fleeing Central America
The school, known simply as QIRT, would ultimately take in a huge number of new Central American immigrants. This past school year, there were about 110 Central American immigrants, representing approximately a quarter of the school. The school became known as a safe space, according to Principal Carl Manalo, and that was part of the draw for young immigrants.
Education Week
New plan would keep Nevada’s sprawling Clark Co. District in tact
A year after state lawmakers gave the green light to break up the nation’s fifth largest school district—Nevada’s Clark County schools—a new plan has emerged that would keep the sprawling system intact. Rather than split the approximately 320,400-student district into a number of smaller entities, the committee charged with reorganizing Clark County schools is now proposing to give much broader authority over how the schools are managed to principals.
The Hechinger Report
What if every kid got to go to summer camp… during the school year?
It was early evening in late May. Dinner was done and caper crews of students — “caper” is camp-speak for “chore” — had stacked the firewood into wheelbarrows, swept the dining hall floor, and (eew!) cleaned the bathrooms. The fading spring light slanted through the trees as the girls from Dogwood Cabin headed back to their bunks to practice their end-of-week skit.
NPR
The best schools in the world do this. Why don’t we?
In the U.S., poverty is a powerful drag on the youngest learners, with too many children showing up to kindergarten both hungry and lacking important cognitive and non-cognitive skills. Research suggests that preschool, when done well, can have a profound impact on children’s lives, but too often in the U.S. it’s done badly or not at all.