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Bring Out the Game Film!

News, Policy and Practice

May 25th, 2012

A while back, I watched one of the sessions coach John Gruden conducted with then NFL quarterback prospect Andrew Luck in which they dissected game film and I got to thinking: Why don’t we do this as educators? For sports, this makes sense - we all know that football and basketball are games of inches where teams practice more than they play in...

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Race to the Top District Competition Announced

News

May 23rd, 2012

Yesterday, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced the next bold incentive for comprehensive education reform: the Race to the Top District competition (RTT-D).  $400 million in grants will be awarded to locally targeted improvements in teaching and learning that will directly improve student achievement and teacher effectiveness. ...

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Adding an “A” to STEM Education

News

May 21st, 2012

This blog post is an extended letter to the editor that was published in The News Journal. Dori Jacobson, our Senior Vice President, is a member of the Board of Overseers of Delaware College of Art and Design. In his memoir, Apple’s co-founder Steve Wozniak said, “Most inventors and engineers I’ve met are like me ... they live in their...

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