10 Things We Heard from Gov. Carney’s State of the State Address
As Gov. John C. Carney delivered his (technically first-ever) State of the State address last week, the Rodel team listened intently for any mentions of public education.
Here’s what we heard:
Not surprisingly, Gov. Carney led off with the economy. He mentioned some positive steps in tackling the state’s...
A Reminder from MLK
Every year on this weekend, I try to read Martin Luther King Jr’s letter from Birmingham jail. It’s a fairly long letter that he wrote while sitting in his jail cell to the Christian and Jewish clergy that opposed his approach to civil disobedience.
The whole letter, written in 1963, nine years after Brown v. Board of Education...
What’s the Lay of Delaware’s Postsecondary Prep Landscape?
How well is Delaware really preparing students for life after graduation? We know there are many outstanding in-school and out-of-school programs and support services up and down the state, but what are our strongest assets? Our biggest opportunities to improve? Rodel is just one of several partners dedicated to finding answers to these...
Raising the Bar: Q&A with John Hollis
From its humble beginnings as a science-club offshoot of the long-shuttered Seaford Dupont nylon plant, the Minority Engineering Regional Incentive Training (MERIT) program has since blossomed into one of the state’s most successful postsecondary prep programs.
Its founder John Hollis—a former teacher and counselor—is...