Select U.S. Education policymakers recently had the opportunity to learn from systems in Finland, Singapore, and Ontario at a meeting hosted by The Alliance for Excellent Education, led by former West Virginia Governor Bob Wise, and the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education, led by Linda Darling-Hammond.  Each of these...

Want more follow-up on the Vision 2015: Race to Deliver conference?   A write-up and videos are available from UD here.  Also, below are summaries of the breakout discussions.  If you are interested in the School Turnaround session, more will be coming later this week. STEMPanelists participating in the session on STEM...

  Most of the talk on the campaign trail this year has been about jobs, but the once-slumbering conversation about our public education system is rearing its head, as it should.  Education is, of course, the key to more and better jobs in the future.  The conversation got a boost this week nationally through Education Nation, and it...

The nation’s eyes are on Delaware as we determine the multiple measures to be used for the new teacher evaluation system with implementation set to begin June 30, 2011. Hundreds of teachers are engaged in a process led by Delaware’s Department of Education, the Delaware State Education Association, and the Delaware Association of...