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Using Student Growth to Evaluate Teachers: An update
February 24th, 2011
Here is a quick update from last week’s State Board meeting on how student growth measurements will be used to evaluate teachers (in the new DPAS II system). There has been some concern that evaluations will be based on just one, cut-and-dry measure of student performance, which causes concern among teachers and others who know that there...VIEW ARTICLE
Delaware’s Flunking History
February 24th, 2011
Delaware’s history standards received an F and are void of content or substance, according to the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation’s recently released report The State of State U.S History Standards 2011. The report, which gave Delaware zero points for content, rigor, clarity, and specificity, highlights that Delaware standards are void of...VIEW ARTICLE
Delaware Educators Experience What’s Possible
February 22nd, 2011
Approximately 70 educators throughout the state (including superintendents, principals, teachers, central office staff, DSEA, and Innovative Schools) visited Crossland High School and E.L. Haynes Charter School to see best practices in action as part of the Department of Education’s Race to the Top LEA Support Program. Each campus was chosen...VIEW ARTICLE