September 16, 2016
Delaware News
Coastal Point
IRHS celebrates AP test scores, award winners for 2015-2016
This past spring, Indian River High School students collectively took 152 Advanced Placement exams. They blew those exams out of the water, earning “qualifying scores” on 76 percent of those exams, far exceeding the national average of 57 percent. They also won about two dozen scholar awards.
Delaware Public Media
Design-Lab charter school earns $10 million grant
One of Delaware’s newest charter schools is getting a huge investment from a national organization in the hopes of overhauling the American education system. Delaware Design-Lab High School in Christiana earned a $10 million grant Wednesday to help better develop its curriculum and approach to education, which only opened last spring.
The News Journal
Law puts breakfast in Delaware classrooms
Everyone has heard it – breakfast is the most important meal of the day. And students in Delaware public schools will soon have an easier time getting it since Gov. Jack Markell signed into law a bill that requires public schools to serve breakfast for a longer period of time in the morning and to make it available to kids outside of the cafeteria.
New suicide prevention law goes into effect this school year
Everyone who works in a public school – that includes teachers, janitors, and bus drivers – will now be trained to help prevent suicide. A new law, passed last year, mandates that all school employees undergo training to recognize risk factors for youth suicide and to respond to those factors. This is the first year that the law is in effect.
National News
Idaho Ed News
New Plymouth ramps up advanced opportunities for students
Leaders of the New Plymouth School District are making a big push for students to earn college credits before graduation. During a press conference Wednesday with Lt. Gov. Brad Little and local Republican Rep. Ryan Kerby, Principal Clete Edmundson and Superintendent Kevin Barker unveiled the district’s revamped advanced opportunities program.
PBS
Are U.S. children getting the best education for the dollar?
From the first day of kindergarten to graduation from high school, schools in the United States invest nearly $139,000 for the average student’s education. That’s far less than some other developed countries.
Providence Journal
Raimondo sets deadline for dramatic improvement in third-grade reading
Governor Raimondo announced Wednesday that she wants to double the percentage of third graders reading at grade level by 2025, the year children born this year will reach third grade. “Today, I’m drawing a line in the sand and setting a clear goal for Rhode Island: By 2025, when the kids who were born this year reach third grade, three out of four will be reading at grade level,” Raimondo said in a prepared statement.
The Washington Post
Why some schools are sending kids out for recess four times a day
For years we’ve been hearing that many schools have cut back — or eliminated — recess for young children because academics are seen as more important than giving kids a chance to move during the school day. But now some schools are bucking the trend — big time, sending kids outside four separate times a day for unstructured play.