September 1, 2016
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Are you or someone you know a high school student who enjoys computer programming?
Congressman John Carney has announced that Delaware will once again participate in the annual Congressional App Challenge. The competition geared towards high school students, provides an opportunity to learn programming concepts, entrepreneurial lessons, and STEM-based skills through creating an app on the students platform of choice.
Sussex Countian
Dover High looks to students to combat bullying
Bullying prevention is in the hands of students. Dover High School Associate Principal Tiff McCullough is spearheading a new strategy announced at the Aug. 17 Capital School District Board of Education meeting. His anti-bullying task force, or solution team, is mostly composed of students, with one adult serving as an advisor for the team.
Technical.ly
Girls Inc. after-school STEM program kicks off Sept. 6
On Mondays its science, on Tuesdays it’s tech, on Wednesdays it’s engineering and on Thursdays its math. That’s the agenda for the STEM-minded Girls Inc. of Delaware after-school program this fall, which runs 10 weeks starting Sept. 6. The program takes place at 1501 N. Walnut St. in Wilmington and is completely free.
The News Journal
Charter funding firestorm continues
Backlash against changes to a formula that funds charter schools – which could mean a shift of millions of dollars from districts – caused the Department of Education to reverse course on implementing those changes for this school year. Or maybe not.
WDEL
Help those in need get school supplies
Too often, teachers are stuck buying school supplies for their classrooms using their own money. With many students heading back to school this week, AAA Mid-Atlantic is trying to ease the burden on educators.
National News
The New York Times
What kids wish their teachers knew
When Kyle Schwartz started teaching third grade at Doull Elementary School in Denver, she wanted to get to know her students better. She asked them to finish the sentence “I wish my teacher knew.” The responses were eye-opening for Ms. Schwartz. Some children were struggling with poverty; an absent parent; and a parent taken away.
NPR
School closures: Americans oppose them, but research suggests they’re not a bad idea
For nearly a half-century, the professional educators’ organization Phi Delta Kappa has released a poll this time of year to capture the public’s attitudes towards public education. This year, by far the most lopsided finding in the survey was about a controversial reform policy: school closures.
The Atlantic
Disrupting the one-teacher standard
We asked prominent voices in education—from policy makers and teachers to activists and parents—to look beyond laws, politics, and funding and imagine a utopian system of learning. They went back to the drawing board—and the chalkboard—to build an educational Garden of Eden.
The Washington Post
This welfare reform program could be a model to help impoverished college students
When Will Bradford enrolled at Northwest Arkansas Community College in January 2015, it had been 15 years since he had stepped foot in a classroom. He had taken a few college classes after high school but dropped out in a matter of weeks. “I just didn’t have the motivation,” Bradford, 35, recalls.