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Over At Kilroy’s: What About The (Charter) Children?

By pandora October 31, 201127 Comments

I’ve been having a back and forth with Kilroy over at his blog. It all started with this thought in his post entitled: Pennsylvania moves towards school voucher.

Denn Highlights Education Successes

By nemski September 1, 201127 Comments

In yesterday's News Journal Lt. Gov. Matt Denn wrote a op-ed highlighting some of the successes we've had in education in Delaware.

Independence Day?

By MJ July 1, 201114 Comments

So I wonder what these people will be celebrating on Monday? According to a new poll by Marist, more than a quarter of Americans couldn’t correctly identify the country from…

Let’s Hear It for Evolution

By MJ June 20, 201111 Comments

The 2011 Miss USA "scholarship" pageant was held last night in Las Vegas. Out of the 51 contestants, only two of them said that they believed in evolution. Out of…

Appoquinimink Names New Superintendent

By liberalgeek June 15, 2011

Today the Appoquinimink School District is announcing that their next superintendent will be Matt Burrows, currently the principal of Redding Middle School. Burrows will replace retiring superintendent, Tony Marchio. Appo…

Quote of the Day 5/17/11

By xstryker May 17, 20112 Comments

"Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be maintained." - President James A. Garfield

Sunday Reading — Education

By cassandra_m May 1, 2011

There have been a few articles in various places over the week that might be of interest as we continue to debate the future of education here in Delaware:

The Miracle That Wasn’t

By Unstable Isotope March 29, 201114 Comments

USA Today investigated the standardized test scores of some schools labeled successful and found some unusual patterns.

A Tea Partier’s Letter To His Teacher Wife

By Unstable Isotope March 17, 201116 Comments

A Tea Partier in Ohio writes a letter of apology to his teacher wife for voting for John Kasich.

Guest Post: Delaware’s Education Insight Project (Part 2: What Will It Look Like?)

By liberalgeek March 16, 201159 Comments

The following is a guest post by Mike Oboryshko. Mike is a Red Clay parent and a friend of mine and of this blog. In Part 1, I introduced the…

Guest Post: Delaware’s Education Insight Project (Part 1: What Is It?)

By liberalgeek March 14, 201133 Comments

The following is a guest post by Mike Oboryshko. Mike is a Red Clay parent and a friend of mine and of this blog. Last Friday, a pair of RFPs…

More Charter Schools For Delaware

By pandora January 21, 201146 Comments

I have mixed feelings about Charter Schools. My main problem centers on the Charter School of Wilmington and its Admission Placement test and the way their success is touted -…

Rating Delaware Public High Schools

By nemski December 31, 201021 Comments

Delaware Today released their rating of the best high schools and there is no surprise which is number one