Making Music
March has arrived, signaling not only the approach of Spring, but Music in Our Schools month, as well. According to The College Board’s Profile of College-Bound Seniors National Report for 2006, students who studied music for four or more years scored 57 points higher than their peers on verbal Scholastic Aptitude Tests (SAT) and 43...
Using Student Growth to Evaluate Teachers: An update
Here is a quick update from last week’s State Board meeting on how student growth measurements will be used to evaluate teachers (in the new DPAS II system). There has been some concern that evaluations will be based on just one, cut-and-dry measure of student performance, which causes concern among teachers and others who know that there...
Delaware’s Flunking History
Delaware’s history standards received an F and are void of content or substance, according to the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation’s recently released report The State of State U.S History Standards 2011.
The report, which gave Delaware zero points for content, rigor, clarity, and specificity, highlights that Delaware standards are void of...
Delaware Educators Experience What’s Possible
Approximately 70 educators throughout the state (including superintendents, principals, teachers, central office staff, DSEA, and Innovative Schools) visited Crossland High School and E.L. Haynes Charter School to see best practices in action as part of the Department of Education’s Race to the Top LEA Support Program.
Each campus was chosen...