July 22, 2015
Delaware News
The News Journal
UD looking for someone to continue Harker’s vision
“We are seeking a person with a vision of the university that is consistent with where Dr. Harker was leading,” said Jeff Garland, vice president and university secretary, who is the administrator for the Board of Trustees. “The Trustees are very concerned that we take that vision and move it forward.”
WDEL
School public hearing draws no one
Family Foundations Academy Charter School requested a move allowing its elementary classes in the upcoming school year to move to a facility vacated by Reach Academy, a charter school state officials ordered closed this year.
Sussex County Post
Randy Short Sussex Central’s first to earn International Baccalaureate diploma
Sussex Central is one of only five Delaware high schools to offer an IB diploma, which provides students with college credit, recruitment by top colleges and greater opportunities for grants and loans. This internationally-recognized curriculum requires 11th and 12th grade students to take and test in six subjects over a two-year period while also completing core classes in reasoning, extended essay and “Creativity, Action and Service.”
Milford Beacon
Two Milford schools receive boost from Horace Mann
Overall, Horace Mann donated more than $10,000 to complete projects in Pre-K through second-grade classrooms in the DonorsChoose.org program.
National News
Chalkbeat New York
The state names 62 NYC schools that must quickly improve or face takeover
The state named 62 low-performing New York City schools that the chancellor will be forced to hand over to an outside manager if she cannot swiftly revamp them. The possible takeovers stem from a law proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, which lays bare a debate between him and Mayor Bill de Blasio about the best way to prop up floundering schools.
EdSource
Teacher training course aims to boost students’ college readiness
A California State University reading and writing course originally designed to help 12th-grade English teachers prepare more seniors for college-level coursework is expanding into lower grades – a shift that reflects the Common Core’s increased emphasis on college readiness.
Edutopia
3 ways of getting student feedback to improve your teaching
During the summer, you’ll want to improve your teaching and lessons, but how do you decide where to start? Your students! I use these three ways to get feedback from my students on my lessons, activities, and what I can do to improve next year.
Education Next
What did Race to the Top accomplish?
Education Next talks with Joanne Weiss and Frederick M. Hess
Innovative program spurred meaningful education reform
By Joanne Weiss, former chief of staff to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and director of the federal Race to the Top program
Much has been said about the impact of the Race to the Top program—some good, some not so good, some accurate, some less so. Because Race to the Top aimed to drive systems-level change, it’s still premature to reach firm conclusions about its impacts on outcomes for students, although that’s the verdict that ultimately matters most. Yet enough time has passed for a first take on the policies that Race to the Top helped pioneer. What did it seem to get right? What did it get wrong? And what does this mean for future policies?
Lofty promises but little change for America’s schools
By Frederick M. Hess, Director of Education Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, author, and former public high school teacher
Some of the enthusiasm was certainly deserved. Race to the Top was fueled by admirable intentions, supervised by talented people, and reflected a great deal of sensible thinking on school improvement. In theory, it had much to recommend it. In practice, Race to the Top was mostly a product of executive branch whimsy.