Delaware
News, analysis, and opinion about K-12 education in Delaware
Student Well-Being
Schools Struggle to Meet Students' Mounting Mental-Health Needs
Keeping up with students’ growing mental-health needs was a concern for districts long before the pandemic began. It’s even harder now, educators and psychologists say.
States
From Our Research Center
Educational Opportunities and Performance in Delaware
This Quality Counts 2020 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.
States
Educational Opportunities and Performance in Delaware
This Quality Counts 2019 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.
College & Workforce Readiness
Jobs at All Levels Now Require Digital Literacy. Here's Proof.
Education Week visited Delaware's largest employer for a closer look at how digitization is changing the workplace.
English Learners
Dual-Language Learning: Making Teacher and Principal Training a Priority
In this seventh installment on the growth in dual-language learning, two experts from Delaware explore how state education leaders can build capacity to support both students and educators.
Special Education
Video
Team Sports Promote Social Inclusion for Students With Disabilities
It’s the final game of the season for the Unified Basketball team at Caesar Rodney H.S. in Camden, Del. Students with and without intellectual disabilities are on the same team and ready to win. Unified Sports is a program developed by Special Olympics to help reduce bullying and exclusion and promote healthy activities and social interactions. Unified teams exist in over 5,500 schools nationwide, and in states like Delaware, allow students with disabilities to compete at the varsity level.
School & District Management
Delaware Earns a C-Plus on State Report Card, Ranks 17th in Nation
This Quality Counts 2018 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.
College & Workforce Readiness
Opinion
In Delaware, Creating Career Pathways for Youths
A statewide initiative aims to enroll half the state's high school students into career pathways to close a "skills gap."
School Climate & Safety
Years After CDC Report on Gun Violence, Bloodshed Continues
Most of the CDC recommendations for fixing "epidemic levels" of gun violence in Wilmington, Del., remain unfulfilled even as shootings continue to claim young lives.
School Climate & Safety
'They're Taking Our Kids': Teen Gun Violence Is Plaguing Cities Big and Small
A new analysis of gun violence data reveals there's one city that far and away leads the country in its rate of shootings among young people under 18—Wilmington, Del.
Every Student Succeeds Act
Betsy DeVos Approves Delaware's ESSA Plan, After Blowback
Initial feedback on the state's plan had some key people in Washington worried the Trump Education Department was overstepping the bounds of the law.
Every Student Succeeds Act
How One State Changed Its ESSA Plan in Response to the Trump Team
What have states actually done in response to U.S. Department of Education feedback on their plans for the Every Student Succeeds Act? Here's Delaware's answer.
Every Student Succeeds Act
Ed. Dept. Demands More Detail From States' ESSA Plans
Some early feedback offer clues about how strict or flexible the U.S. Department of Education will be in interpreting parts of the Every Student Succeeds Act as it decides whether to approve state blueprints.
Standards & Accountability
Opinion
With ESSA, States Lead for Deeper Learning
With the Every Student Succeeds Act, states are shifting from accountability systems that label schools using a single indicator to multiple-measure systems aimed at continuous improvement.
