Meet Matt Joyce
My name is Matt Joyce and I’m thrilled to join the Rodel Foundation as the newest team member. I’ll be consulting with the foundation and its partnering organizations on strategic planning and new program development.
Before coming to Delaware, my experience was in social enterprise, starting and managing a non-profit fellowship...
Everything We Need to Know We Learned in Kindergarten
The New York Times published an explosive story regarding the unequivocal long-term benefits of high-quality education in early grades. The article highlights a study in which researchers tracked 12,000 Tennessee students participating in Project STAR from the time they entered school in the 1980s until they reached their 30s. Previously...
Markell a Leader in Education Reform
Building on Delaware's Round One Race to the Top win Governor Markell continues to position Delaware as a national education leader. He recently accepted a seat on the National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB), which oversees the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) or the “nation’s report card”, a rigorous...
Performance Pay Blog Post – Part III – Challenges and Lessons Learned
Analysis of the education landscape reveals obstacles to be overcome in order to implement a statewide performance pay program. Fortunately, improvements to many of these challenges are underway through the RTTT plan:
Teacher Evaluation: the policies for the statewide Delaware Performance Appraisal System (DPAS II) are currently under...