PSAT Time
As many of you prepare yourself, your children, or your grandchildren to take the PSAT this week, you are taking a big step toward a college education: a step toward building skills that may be even more essential in the coming years. According to a report released earlier this year, the US is on a course to under-produce postsecondary...
DCAS is up and running
This week marks the beginning of the first implementation of the Delaware Comprehensive Assessment System. See the related opinion and article from the News Journal yesterday.
The computer based test will be offered up to four times a year and will give teacher, students, and parents feedback in as little as 48 hours. Of course, the...
Partnership Zone in Practice: What Could This Mean For You?
Recently, Secretary Lowery designated four schools as members of Delaware’s statewide Partnership Zone Initiative, an ambitious effort to transform the academic outcomes of students at our persistently low-performing schools. Secretary Lowery chose each of the four campuses based upon regulations outlined in Delaware’s Education...
Teacher Effectiveness Lessons from Abroad
Select U.S. Education policymakers recently had the opportunity to learn from systems in Finland, Singapore, and Ontario at a meeting hosted by The Alliance for Excellent Education, led by former West Virginia Governor Bob Wise, and the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education, led by Linda Darling-Hammond. Each of these...