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Are the Expectations the Same in Smyrna and Singapore? Common Core in the Classroom
February 21st, 2012
In 2006, Vision 2015 recommended that “our standards [become] as challenging as those that the highest-performing countries expect their students to meet,” and four years later Delaware adopted the Common Core State Standards along with 44 other states and D.C. The promise of these standards is their ability to set a common, higher bar for...VIEW ARTICLE
Grading Schools On…Creativity?
February 17th, 2012
In our global economy, businesses are placing an ever-increasing premium on the ability to problem-solve and innovate. When educators in academically top-performing countries like South Korea and Finland gather, they talk about one thing: how better to foster creativity—often, in fact, looking to the U.S. for ideas. Yet even as countries abroad...VIEW ARTICLE
Two Delaware Charter Schools Renewed…with Conditions
February 17th, 2012
On Thursday, the State Board of Education approved charter school renewals for the Academy of Dover and Prestige Academy with potentially strict, but, as yet, undefined conditions related to student performance and financial management. These conditions will be promulgated over the next month in new regulations that would supplement or replace an...VIEW ARTICLE