November 6, 2015
Delaware News
Newark Post
ASPIRA Academy settles into expanded space
ASPIRA employs a dual-language-immersion program, in which students from kindergarten through fifth-grade spend one day learning in English and the next day switch to another classroom to learn in Spanish. The result is that the students, who come from both English and...
November 5, 2015
Delaware News
The News Journal
Report: UD can do more to enroll low-income students
The University of Delaware is one of 10 American public universities that could be doing more to enroll students from low-income families, a recently released report suggests. "A lot of Delawareans are proud of the university for its accomplishments," said Mamie...
November 4, 2015
The News Journal
Delaware could swap Smarter Balanced with SAT for juniors
Some Delawareans are calling for the state to stop giving high school juniors the controversial Smarter Balanced Assessment and instead rely on the SAT college entrance exam. "The SAT is a proven, reliable test," said Terri Hodges, president of the state Parent...
Delaware’s 2015 NAEP Results: 5 Data Takeaways
Last week, the country received some not-so-great news as state scores on the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) went down or remained flat. Similarly, Delaware scores and proficiency slipped. We took a slightly deeper look at the data, and rostered our 5 Data Takeaway’s from Delaware 2015 NAEP results.
1. Delaware scores and...