Jessica McLaughlin, a senior at Cab Calloway School of the Arts, recently won a student Emmy from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for her environenmental documentary, "Waste Not Want Not: In a Nation of Want." She shared some behind-the-scenes information with the Community News.
The Brandywine School District has is funding a year-round program that offers students with disabilities the opportunity to learn work skills for adulthood.
Wilmington's Anne Gallagher isn't a musician, but she's a supporter of the arts in Delaware. Gallagher took the time to discuss her responsibilities as a board member and more.
Teachers must never be afraid to fail, must own up to their mistakes when they do fail and they must never cease to be learners themselves. Those lessons formed the core of the challenge 2010 National Teacher of the Year Sarah Brown Wessling issued to Red Clay Consolidated School District teachers at a workshop held Tuesday, Aug. 24 at Dickinson High.
Wilmington Friends School held its Final Assembly and Commencement on Monday, June 14, on the Alapocas campus.
The Red Clay and Christina school districts have been awarded nearly $1 million in federal funds to enhance history lessons.
United States Cyber Challenge Delaware Camp recently held its first commencement exercises.
Thirteen students from low-income families spent five weeks learning all about agriculture during the Delaware Center for Horticulture's eighth Horticulture & Environmental Leadership program.
Mitchell Greenberg, a teacher for Reach Academy for girls, attended the Maury Project, offered by the U.S. Naval Academy on July 12-23. Greenberg took the time to chat about his experience at the Naval Academy's workshop, which was designed to inform science teachers about oceanographic and meteorological study, and his outlook on Reach Academy.
A group of students spent last week at the University of Delaware studying the finer points of improvisation on the xylophone and vibraphone during a collection of intensive courses.
Professor Harvey Price, head of the percussion area at UD, helped debunk some myths about the instruments.
Believe it or not, a kids program at the Hagley Museum can teach you how to launch an air rocket and make a bird feeder in the same day.
The Union City Grille opened its kitchen up for a group of students from Bright Horizons Family Solutions to show them how food is prepared in a restaurant.
The number of top rated schools in Delaware fell sharply this year as federal standards continued to rise, and Secretary of Education Lillian Lowery said Friday the time for major reform of education in Delaware is now.
The wildest new exhibit at the Brandywine Zoo is actually inside the Education Center, which now houses a giant, educational mural covering several walls of the building.
Wilmington native David Facciolo was presented with the Ethel M. Cooper Outstanding Service Award for his contributions to New Castle County Head Start and the greater community.The New Castle County Head Start board member took the time to discuss the future of the program and more.
Hockessin’s Martin Kurian talks about science with the same enthusiasm other teens save for Xbox 360.
A dozen giant crayon sculptures will soon be scattered around the Center for the Creative Arts thanks to artist-in-residence Katie Naber and a team of students.
Forty-two students recently spent a week in intensive art courses at the Delaware College of Art and Design during the Pre-College Art Studio Program
Obtaining a summer internship is a mark of prestige for any student– particularly if it’s a paid internship during the Great Recession. For five local students working at the Latin American Community Center this summer, the experience they are obtaining may be even more valuable than the cash, which is just as good as money.
Kids at the East Side Charter School in Wilmington spent a week learning about sound financial decision making through ING DIRECT's Planet Orange Summer Camp.
