What It Takes: Well-trained Teachers
Governor Markell explains the important role great teachers play in preparing our students for success.
View ArticleHow 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.
View ArticleGetting 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.
View ArticleUnleashing 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.
View ArticleThe 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
View ArticleWhy 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...
View Article‘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.
View ArticleMoving 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...
View ArticleGive 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...
View ArticleSchool 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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