Delaware Cited for School Improvement Leadership
Delaware’s School Improvement Grant (SIG) policies have been cited as best practices from which other states can learn by Mass Insight’s School Turnaround Group in a report released last week: School Improvement Grants: Take Two. In the report, Mass Insight offers lessons learned for states as they make grants to...
McKinsey and Arne Show Optimism about Delaware
After disappointing news on the US performance on PISA, we have some good news—Mckinsey & Company recently released a report “How the world’s most improved school systems keep getting better” on how 20 school systems—of diverse performance, geography, culture, governance, and resource-base— have...
Other States’ Charter Environments Passing Delaware By
Delaware’s charter school environment –ranked 13th with a B average last year - received a C and saw its ranking slip to 14th in The Center for Education Reform’s recently released report: Charter School Laws Across the States.
Delaware’s decreased score and ranking shouldn’t surprise anyone since current...
The Highest-Performing Students in the World Live in…Shanghai?!?!
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development released the results of the 2009 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) - an exam administered to 15-year-olds in 65 countries – and the results for the United States aren’t pretty. While American students’ performance in science reached the...