WikiHouse FirstState Builds Refugee Housing Relief
(Editor's note: This article was submitted by five members of the WikiHouse FirstState Team at Mount Pleasant High School: Jeffrey Wilson, Zach Galbraith, Julian Kukulich, Nate Nickerson, and CJ Lyons. Check them out online at their website or on Twitter, and consider donating to their cause at GoFundMe.)
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Delaware Students Get Familiar with the College Process
The Delaware Goes to College initiative has cracked the code on high school students. The program is woven into the fabric of what every high school student finds most important: their phone! Delaware Goes to College has a texting campaign for Delaware students in grades nine–twelve (parents can participate, too). This statewide texting program...
Delaware Students have a Bright Future with MERIT
What do Seaford, Delaware, and GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson have in common? The answer is: the Minority Engineering Regional Incentive Training program (MERIT) program. John Hollis, of Seaford, is the director of the MERIT program and long-time friends with Carson.
MERIT aims to get minorities involved in STEM education and, since...
Delaware’s NAEP Results: Draw Your Own Conclusion
A few days ago we published a blog on Delaware’s NAEP Results: 5 Data Takeaways. Here are some data considerations to keep in mind as you read the tea leaves from this year’s NAEP results.
1. Lookout for misNAEPery—the misuse of NAEP data. National bloggers like Mike Petrilli are warning against jumping to conclusions about the policy...