October 11, 2017
Delaware News
Delaware Department of Education
Press release
Delaware 2018 Teacher of the Year to be named
One of 20 outstanding public school teachers from across the state will be named Delaware’s 2018 Teacher of the Year a week from tonight. Selected from among the more than 9,000 public school teachers in the state, the nominees each...
Treating the Cause, Not the Symptoms: What Education Can Learn from the Social Determinants of Health
Individual behaviors play a role in educational outcomes, but inequitable social and economic factors loom even larger.
We know that children of all backgrounds—including those from adverse environments—can find success in school and in life. But the stark, empirical reality tells us public education still mostly favors the haves over the...
October 10, 2017
Delaware News
Chalkbeat
What states told Chalkbeat about how they will monitor their chronic absenteeism data
Now that students’ rates of chronic absenteeism are being used to judge schools in most states, there will be new incentives to manipulate this data. The Delaware Department of Education is reviewing current processes around absenteeism...
October 6, 2017
Delaware News
Cape Gazette
Work to move forward on Rehoboth elementary
The Cape Henlopen School District cleared its final hurdle to build a new Rehoboth Elementary School, as the city’s planning commission unanimously gave conditional approval to the site plan. The planners said that they would re-examine conditions imposed on the site plan at...