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Mentors sought to fill vital role for young students
The parents struggling to support their families often must work extra shifts to pay bills and put food on the table. Classrooms are crowded, so the extra support a child needs to improve in areas such as reading is often difficult to come by. That’s where...
February 28th, 2013
Author: Brett Turner
This is the conclusion of our blog series on education technology for Digital Learning Day. To read the first post in this Digital Learning Day blog series, “A New Vision for Education,” click here. To read about the role of technology to support personalized learning written by Howard High School of Technology teacher Ashley Sorenson, click...
February 27th, 2013
Author: Paul Herdman
As Board Chair of the Vision Network of Delaware, I am very pleased to welcome Dr. Dana Diesel Wallace as its new Executive Director. The Vision Network is a coalition of school districts and charter schools that are focusing their efforts on three specific areas proven to be critical to student performance: building leadership capacity...
February 27th, 2013
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Additional time helps improve Delaware teacher survey response
An extra nine days got the state Department of Education much closer to its goal of 80 percent participation in a recent teacher survey about their workplace. The window for responding to the TELL Delaware survey closed at midnight Monday. The final tally of responses...
