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...

On Friday afternoon, I boarded the train towards D.C. to attend Teach For America’s 20th Anniversary Summit.   I went to reconnect with colleagues, listen to others engaged in this difficult work, and hopefully leave rejuvenated to continue the fight.  While at summit, I heard about successful efforts of Teach For America...