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Local News Middletown Transcript Q&A with NEA Master Teacher Dana Patton Old State Elementary School fifth-grade teacher Dana Patton recently was named one of the 96 educators nationwide – and only two in Delaware – to join the National Education Association's Master Teacher Project. The Middletown resident and her fellow Master Teachers...

Local News Delaware Department of Education State names 34 teachers to Dream Team Thirty-four teachers from across the state will join the Delaware Dream Team, helping to develop high-quality Common Core formative assessment items that will be shared with teachers throughout Delaware. Members will collaborate in small groups with fellow teachers...

Local News The News Journal Our future depends on future of jobs An editorial Data from the U.S. Census Bureau show that one-third of American children are growing up in homes with incomes lower than their counterparts 35 years ago. As a study from The Hamilton Project put it, “This sustained erosion of income among a broad group of children is...

National News Education Week Teacher training in classroom management is insufficient, study finds Most teacher colleges appear to spend at least some instructional time on classroom-management techniques, but it's often incomplete, not based on research, or divorced from the student-teaching component of preparation. That's the gist of a new...