This is the final of three pieces from a Knowledge Matters tour of school districts in Delaware, in recognition of the state’s new initiative – called DE Delivers – to encourage adoption of high quality instructional materials in its 19 districts. In this piece, Claymont Elementary School Principal Tamara Grimes Stewart describes the Wilmington school’s journey since its 2017 rollout of the Bookworms Reading & Writing curriculum. Part of the Brandywine School District, Claymont saw English Language Arts proficiency scores rise 21 percent in just three years after the new curriculum was implemented.
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Claymont Elementary School was constructed in 1969 as a high school. It played a pivotal role in our nation’s fight to create fair and equitable schools for all students, being one of two northern Delaware schools named in the landmark
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By Kardelen Koldas ’15 Closed restaurants, deserted hotels, empty ski slopes. A service sector-induced recession was one of the many side effects of the pandemic. But if the right steps are taken, Maine’s economic recovery isn’t out of sight, a new Colby study found.
“We are forecasting a recovery in Maine, probably a little healthier than what some people are projecting,” said macroeconomist Michael Donihue ’79, Colby’s Herbert E. Wadsworth Professor of Economics, whose students forecasted Maine’s economic future by working through dozens of equations. “If we do get some sort of support from a fiscal policy on subsidies for small businesses and individuals, that’s going to help prop us up and return to more of a normal [economy], maybe quicker than other states.”