October 6, 2015

Delaware News

The News Journal
UD faculty: Don’t keep presidential search secret
Expressing “deep concern” that the search for a new president is being conducted in secret, the University of Delaware’s Faculty Senate overwhelmingly voted Monday to ask that the search for the school’s next president be made more open. The Senate called for the committee that will pick the next leader to invite a “short list” of at least three or four candidates to campus for public forums.

Delaware Public Media
Red Clay referendum suit tossed out
A judge has dismissed a lawsuit against the Red Clay School District and others alleging election violations during a referendum vote earlier this year.

Cape Gazette
Milton school debate: Many questions, no answers
The town of Milton has two elementary schools that have been at the heart of debate for a decade. Though school board members say it was not part of the original plan, the two schools eventually became largely segregated along racial and income lines. Now, Cape Henlopen School District is moving forward with plans for new or renovated elementary schools. Under tentative plans, a new school would be built at H.O. Brittingham Elementary, while Milton Elementary would be renovated. Which students go where is up for discussion.

National News

Chalkbeat Tennessee
Tennessee school boards group teams with Apple on digital learning project
The Tennessee School Boards Association is partnering with Apple Inc. and other state educational organizations to launch the Tennessee Digital Learning Project, a platform to offer new digital resources to high school students, teachers and parents.

Washington Post
Confusing Ohio test results are latest effort to unravel Common Core’s promise
As the first wave of new Common Core test scores trickle out, Ohio policymakers opted to interpret their test results differently than other states, inflating the performance of their students and making it tricky to compare Ohio with the rest of the country.

Boston Globe
We can do better than one-size-fits-all education
For centuries, we accepted the idea that there is only one way for students to learn — go to school, sit at a desk, be taught by a teacher, then be tested . . . and tested . . . and tested. We’ve operated schools in ways similar to factories since before the Industrial Revolution. But a one-size-fits-all approach to education is no longer enough.

PBS Newshour
How a Boston program is transforming the way we train teachers
The Boston Teacher Residency, an AmeriCorps service program that recruits future teachers and places them in schools for practical experience is being heralded as a model for training teachers. And other cities have begun to take notice

‘They don’t allow you to fail’: In custom classrooms, at-risk students thrive
At a New York City high school, a technique called blended learning replaces a portion of traditional face-to-face instruction with online learning. The computerized curriculum has been shown to help at-risk students learn at the own pace.