Tag: Grants

Moving Past the Bubble Sheet

News

April 19th, 2012

As educators, we've all been there - anxious to go home after a long days work only to look over at the students' recently submitted essays ready to be looked over with our critical eye. Suddenly, you find yourself scrambling to calculate how many minutes it will take you to go through each essay - only to realize that you'll have to TiVo your...

VIEW ARTICLE

What Delaware’s Mid-year Race to the Top Evaluation Tells Us

News

March 16th, 2012

This week, the Delaware Department of Education (DDOE) released a mid-year “progress report” on Race to the Top reforms. The report includes statewide DCAS data, as well as highlights from the mid-year performance evaluations of the students in twelve districts (districts participated or not based on the size of their grant and/or their past...

VIEW ARTICLE

Delaware Wins Early Learning Challenge Grant!

Early Childhood Education, News

December 16th, 2011

We are pleased to announce that Delaware was selected as a recipient of the federal Race to the Top – Early Learning Challenge grant!  Delaware is one of nine states to be awarded a grant out of 37 total applicants.  The U.S. Departments of Education (ED) and Health and Human Services (HHS) jointly announced the winning applications on...

VIEW ARTICLE

Delaware Submits Ambitious Race to the Top – Early Learning Challenge Application

Early Childhood Education, News

October 31st, 2011

On October 19, 2011 Delaware submitted an ambitious application for a roughly $50 million share of the $500 million federal Race to the Top – Early Learning Challenge (RTT-ELC) competitive grant.  According to the U.S. Department of Education, Delaware was one of 35 states, D.C. and Puerto Rico to submit an application. Delaware’s plan...

VIEW ARTICLE