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What It Takes: Well-trained Teachers

Governor Markell explains the important role great teachers play in preparing our students for success.

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How to Give Low-income Students the Chance They Deserve

Governor Markell highlights a new effort underway in Delaware to encourage and support high-achieving, low-income students apply to college.

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Getting to Zero

Governor Markell details Delaware's "Getting to Zero" initiative, aimed at getting all college-ready, low-income students to apply for and attend college.

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Unleashing the Potential of Delawareans

We must commit to unleashing the potential of every Delawarean by ensuring equal opportunities to acquire good education and training, find good jobs, and live in safe and vibrant communities.

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The Real Story About Common Core

Co-Chairman of the Common Core State Standards Initiative, Governor Markell and former Governor Sonny Perdue (GA), share how now is a pivotal moment for the Common Core State Standards

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Why Race to the Top Worked

In spring 2010, Delaware was one of two states to win the first of Race to the Top's four-year grants, making this month's anniversary an appropriate time to ask whether the multi-billion dollar...

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‘We the People’ is Delaware’s glory, challenge as well

To observe Constitution Day, Governor Markell reflects on the meaning of the Constitution's Preamble.

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Moving Forward, Ideas Matter

As the dust settles after the midterm elections, it is clear that voters across the country sent a strong message that they have had enough of partisan gridlock and inaction in Washington. And now the...

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Give Common Core Time to Work

Recent criticism of Common Core by teachers unions, long some of its biggest supporters, is understandable.  It has caused alarm in the media and in the education community. Great ideas – like higher...

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School Choice Works, Privatization Won’t

With the next presidential campaign getting under way, pundits have quickly focused more on the horse race than on where the candidates stand on important issues like improving public education. One...

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