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...

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...

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...

This was the crucial question at last weekend’s Teach For America’s 20th Anniversary Summit. 11,000 people with the same agenda in one room—past, current, and future leaders in urban and rural classrooms now in advocacy roles infiltrating the leadership and ideology of every possible profession from teaching to leading the...