Moving Past the Bubble Sheet
As educators, we've all been there - anxious to go home after a long days work only to look over at the students' recently submitted essays ready to be looked over with our critical eye. Suddenly, you find yourself scrambling to calculate how many minutes it will take you to go through each essay - only to realize that you'll have to TiVo your...
Introducing Matthew Korobkin, Senior Program Officer
Greetings! My name is Matthew Korobkin and I have recently joined the Rodel Foundation as a Program Officer. I am excited to work on behalf of Delaware’s most important citizens—its children—and its greatest asset—public education. Now is an extraordinary time to be in Delaware. With support from Vision 2015, Race to the Top...
Heeding Connecticut
All too often, poverty is cited as the reason why so many of Delaware’s highest-need students show poor performance in the classroom. Poverty can be a factor, clearly. Yet, to use poverty as an excuse that lets all of us—educators, parents, public officials, business and community leaders—off the hook is unproductive and poorly...
Imagine: YES Prep Focused on College and Career Readiness
Jason Bernal, president of YES Prep Public Schools in Houston, TX, talks about the success that the YES network has enjoyed over the last several years in his op-ed in The News Journal. YES Prep employs many winning strategies, that unfortunately we are unable to replicate in Delaware because of the current charter environment.
But that...