June 6, 2016
Delaware
Cape Gazette
Cape’s class of 2016 final stand
The class of 2016 will march in graduation at 6 p.m. Tuesday, June 7, at Cape High’s Legend Stadium. This year’s guest speaker is Cape High Teacher of the Year Carrie Evick. The senior class president Joey Kung will also speak. Officials said 312 students are graduating from Cape Henlopen High School this year.
Beacon students win statewide math project contest
Beacon Middle School students Rileigh Wilson and Juliana Warnock won first place in the state for sixth through eighth grades for their Mathematics in Entertainment project through the Delaware Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Their project was completed under the guidance of their honors math teacher Maureen Baron.
The Middletown Transcript
Bridge chosen as top district paraprofessional for 2016
Michele Bridge has served in several schools in the Appoquinimink School District over the past five years, but wherever she has gone, she’s surely left a mark. “What I came to realize was that, no matter where I was, no matter what children I was assigned to, I truly loved what I was doing,” Bridge said.
The Milford Beacon
Milford seniors set record for AP classes
Milford High School seniors have surpassed their predecessors. They have taken the most Advanced Placement courses than any class in the history of the school. The accomplishment was announced during the senior awards night on May 18. This year they took 13 AP course said assistant principal Shawn Synder.
The News Journal
Political correctness touches schools and a team
Opinion by Harry Themal
A high school in Woodcrest, Delaware, and a football team in Landover, Maryland, are enmeshed in the same battle: What to name their teams? The Conrad Schools of Science Redskins and the Washington Redskins are both debating whether their nickname, dating back to the 1930s, is now considered insensitive and insulting to Native Americans.
National
Education Week
School civil rights took spotlight under Obama
A school police officer violently throws a black high school student from her desk before arresting her for refusing to put away her cellphone. A young student is put in handcuffs for defiant behavior. A school imposes drastically different punishments on a black student and a white student for the same behavior.
NPR
5 doubts about data-driven schools
Have you ever seen a school data wall? In a struggling Newark, N.J., public school, I’ve seen bulletin boards showing the test scores of each grade compared with state averages. And in one in affluent Silicon Valley, I’ve seen smartboards that track individual students’ math responses in real time. These kinds of public displays send a message: This school cares about student performance by the numbers.
The Atlantic
Can reading logs ruin reading for kids?
Children who read regularly for pleasure, who are avid and self-directed readers, are the Holy Grail for parents and educators. Reading for pleasure has considerable current and future benefits: Recreational readers tend to have higher academic achievement and greater economic success, and even display more civic-mindedness.
The News & Observer
State education board, legislators collide over math
Changes to high school math the State Board of Education is poised to approve put the board on a collision course with legislators who want schools to go back to teaching the subject the way they did four years ago. The state board is set to vote Thursday on changes to three core high school math courses.
The Oregonian
Oregon saw biggest percent increase in completed financial aid applications
Oregon had the largest increase in the nation in the percentage of high school seniors who completed a Free Application for Federal Student Aid, a key indicator that more Oregonians are interested in going to college. In 2016, Oregon saw an 8.8 percent increase from a year earlier in the number of students who completed the application.