December 13, 2016
Delaware News
Cape Gazette
School board vote on Wellness Center expected Dec. 15
Cape Henlopen school board is expected to discuss Dec. 15 adding reproductive health services at the high school Wellness Center and creating a parental consent form. But whatever the board decides to list on the form, state officials say the consent form will not prevent a child from receiving treatment if he or she wants it.
Read Aloud Delaware welcomes new officers, board members
Newly elected Read Aloud Delaware Board of Directors President Thomas Black welcomed new board members at the organization’s annual meeting Oct. 26. Read Aloud Delaware is a statewide children’s literacy program dedicated to ensuring that each preschool child in Delaware is regularly read to one on one.
Milford Live
MHS, DTCC partner on green energy education
This fall, Milford High School launched a new green Energy Management Pathway where students take Delaware Technical & Community College’s (DTCC) Sociology 103: Society and Sustainability course as well as DTCC’s OAT 152: Excel Level I for dual enrollment college credits. While earning Milford High School credits, the ten Energy Management Pathway students also earn nine college credits through DTCC.
Sussex County Post
Woodbridge agriculture teacher selected for professional development scholarship
Jessica Leone, agricultural educator at Woodbridge Middle School in Bridgeville, is one of a select group of agriculture teachers nationwide who received the 2016 Teachers Turn the Key professional development scholarship from the National Association of Agricultural Educators. As a scholarship recipient, Ms. Leone attended the NAAE annual convention in Las Vegas, Nov. 29-Dec. 3.
The News Journal
Santa, is that you? Mystery donor pays kids’ lunch bills
Must have been ole’ Santa Claus. Whoever it was, families at Stubbs Elementary School in Wilmington are celebrating the anonymous donor who paid off every kid’s outstanding lunch bill. It cost $1,283.07. “I think it’s wonderful,” said Shaqanda Worthy, a parent.
National News
Newsworks
The sub situation in Philly schools: Amid improvement, inequity lingers
About a month ago, Jonathan Leibovic spotted a strange man in the hallways of W.D. Kelley School in North Philadelphia. A lost parent? An intruder? As the man moved closer, Leibovic noticed he was wearing a lanyard emblazoned with the logo of a company that used to provide staffing help for the School District of Philadelphia. The man wasn’t lost. He was a substitute teacher, a sight so rare at this K-8 school that Leibovic hadn’t even considered the possibility.
NPR
School vouchers 101: What they are, how they work — and do they work?
President-elect Donald Trump said on the campaign trail that school choice is “the new civil rights issue of our time.” But to many Americans, talk of school choice isn’t liberating; it’s just plain confusing. Exhibit A: Vouchers. Politicians love to use this buzzword in perpetual second reference, assuming vouchers are like Superman: Everyone knows where they came from and what they can do. They’re wrong.
The Atlantic
Why doesn’t public school start at birth?
The rate of return on a good early-childhood program is about 13 percent, according to a new analysis from the labor economist and Nobel laureate James Heckman, who directs the Center for the Economics of Human Development at the University of Chicago. That’s a higher return than the 7 to 10 percent that has often been associated with preschool programs. And, as Heckman noted during a call with reporters recently, that’s also a better deal than many stocks.
The Hechinger Report
Mississippi’s early ed shakeup: State reorganizes key child care services, launches new family tracking system
Mississippi has plans to revamp its early childhood education system in the new year with a flurry of changes, including launching an online platform to streamline and track services that children and families are receiving from the state and shuffling around or creating new programs to support and raise the quality of child care centers. The changes were announced at last week’s State Early Childhood Advisory Council of Mississippi (SECAC) meeting, which featured an appearance by Gov. Phil Bryant.
The Tennessean
Vanderbilt study: Pre-K math skills a possible indicator of student success
A Vanderbilt University study has found math skills at an early age could be an indicator of future success in that child’s life. But the type of math a pre-kindergarten student knows matters. The findings of the study suggest that educators and school administrators should consider math that requires more critical thinking in addition to simple counting and calculating, according to the study conducted through Vanderbilt’s Peabody College of Education and Human Development.