Tag: Achievement Gap

Report Highlights Importance of Working Conditions

Policy and Practice

July 3rd, 2012

In order to better serve low-income students, not only identifying high-performers, but providing them with the necessary conditions for success is crucial according to the recently released Ed Trust report Building and Sustaining Talent: Creating Conditions in High-Poverty Schools That Support Effective Teaching and Learning. The report...

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Heeding Connecticut

News

April 9th, 2012

All too often, poverty is cited as the reason why so many of Delaware’s highest-need students show poor performance in the classroom.  Poverty can be a factor, clearly. Yet, to use poverty as an excuse that lets all of us—educators, parents, public officials, business and community leaders—off the hook is unproductive and poorly...

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Why Are You Running? The Race for School Board Leadership is On

News

March 27th, 2012

If you have attended local school board meetings, you’ll know they can be thoughtful, productive, policy-focused, and decisive.  They also can be long, tedious, weed-strewn, raucous, and frustrating.  Were it not for the significant responsibilities that board members have for the quality of our schools, one might wonder why anyone would...

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Early Learning Jobs in Delaware

Early Childhood Education, News

March 2nd, 2012

The work has begun to implement the state's early learning plan to improve quality and access, augmented by $49 million from the state's win the Early Learning Challenge -- Race to the Top. The Delaware Department of Education is now hiring positions associated with the plan. See the below descriptions for more information. Position: Education...

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