WILMINGTON – Delaware’s Ferris School has been selected as finalist for the 2021 PbS Barbara Allen-Hagen Award in the juvenile correction program category. This prestigious annual award, through the national continuous improvement program Performance-based Standards (PbS), is given in three categories: correction, detention, and community residential programs. Programs are recognized based on practices that exemplify […]

Innovation Center, William Penn High School. – On Tuesday, Lt. Governor Hall-Long joined Patrick and Amy Kennedy and leaders in behavioral health from around Delaware for a round table discussion aimed at improving student mental health. Patrick Kennedy is one of the world’s leading voices on mental health and addiction. He is best known as the lead sponsor of the Mental Health Parity […]

WILMINGTON – The Delaware Child Psychiatry Access Program has expanded and updated its service offerings for participating pediatric primary care providers. Over the summer, the Delaware Child Psychiatry Access Program, known as DCPAP, added three new child psychiatrists to offer consultations to pediatric serving primary care providers. Saurabh Gupta, M.D., Narpinder Malhi, M.D., and Markian […]

WILMINGTON – For the second year in a row, Delaware officials, families, friends and community partners joined together virtually on National Adoption Day to recognize the resilience of families who have embarked on the journey of adoption in the past year. The National Adoption Day event on Saturday, November 20, hosted by the statewide Interagency Committee […]

WILMINGTON – The Delaware Children’s Department (DSCYF) has announced that it plans to launch the trauma-informed initiative Take Care Delaware statewide in 2022. Take Care Delaware is an innovative trauma-informed program that promotes school and community partnerships, such as law enforcement and mental health providers, to help children exposed to trauma receive support so they […]

Annual event honors families adopting and family service workers DOVER – On November 18, the State of Delaware came together to celebrate National Adoption Day, a day dedicated to highlighting the importance of adoption and the support available to adoptive families. This special program, hosted by the Interagency Committee on Adoption, a collaboration between Delaware’s […]

A breakdown of high-profile news stories you may have missed during the week.

As some districts try to dismantle racist and biased policies and practices, they are creating high-profile positions to lead that public, sometimes hostile, reckoning.

Flipped classrooms have been getting attention as a way for teachers to find more time for activities and individual support during the regular school day, but a new study cautions that the model could trade short-term gains for wider achievement gaps.

What we call education inequality defines how—and even if—we solve it, write three researchers.

Black students are not to blame for their lack of educational opportunities, argues assistant principal Eric Higgins.

"Colorblind" teaching isn’t going to cut it, writes Vanderbilt University’s H. Richard Milner IV.

OM Chile's skateboard ministry in Santiago is bearing fruit. Skater Diego gave his life to Jesus, after becoming friends with OM'er Yerko Clavero.

The participants of the Intensive Training programme begin neighbourhood evangelism by gluing paintings about God's love to the sides of their front gate.

OM Chile celebrates Christmas with the boys and girls of two children's homes in Santiago.

In an effort to strengthen relationships with local churches, OM Chile recently held a dinner for local pastors that featured international flavours and testimonies.

God uses an OM Chile team member to encourage churches in the north of the country.

OM Chile responds quickly to help local churches provide relief after a forest fire in Valparaíso kills 15 people and destroys 3,000 homes in April.

A girl from the Netherlands comes to OM Chile with passion to do evangelism. Instead, she gains a true appreciation for mobilisation.

Preschool-age children who frequently play number-related games at home show better math skills and growth by the end of kindergarten, finds a new study in the journal Child Development.

A comprehensive look at how U.S. schools served students in the aftermath of the coronavirus closures finds that schools responded more fully in communities where parents' education levels were higher.

A Central Asian girl receives her first wheelchair.

A dream comes true - the first OM recruit from her country sends the next group of recruits to the OM ship.

A new recording studio aims to bring Central Asian musicians together for collaboration and worship.

OM workers in Central Asia minister to homeless people. Some people reject their help, but others find new life.

OM workers in Central Asia use technology to develop new discipleship and worship tools for local believers.

One OM couple uses Transformation Prayer Ministry to help followers of Jesus in Central Asia find freedom from lies they have believed.

The Xenos team in Germany is delighted about Ibrahim, a Turkish man, who is following Jesus. This is the story of Ibrahim’s journey to faith in Christ.

Teens learn about the REAL Jesus of the Bible and how to have a REAL relationship with Him at TeenStreet 2011 in Offenburg, Germany.

Mission-Net welcomes more than 2,500 people and 110 mission organisations from Europe and other parts of the world to Erfurt, Germany, this week.

An argument between two children who attend the kids’ programme in Hamburg encourages the workers that the kids understand the message of the gospel.

Leader of OM Germany serves in the kitchen during TeenStreet, OM’s annual week-long international youth congress that started on Saturday.

TeenStreet 2015 encouraged thousands of participants from around the world to be HOME with God, experiencing His presence in their daily lives.

During a Transform outreach in Germany, a short-term team enjoys God’s provision of good weather as they facilitated outdoor children’s programmes for refugees.

During TeenStreet 2016 a group of 29 people went to a refugee camp in Oldenburg, Germany to share the love of Christ.

Summary of TeenStreet 2016 in Oldenburg, Germany

How does TeenStreet, a 25-year-old ministry to youth, fit into OM's new global mission focus?

Disguised in different roles–from rebellious teenagers to homeless people to prostitutes and pimps–community members responsible for the onshore segment of The Agency experience act out the types of least reached people in society.

Through Scatter Railways, Global Village at TeenStreet focussed on introducing teens to the 2.8 billion people who have never heard of Jesus.

Voting for the Jharkhand assembly elections phase 1 is being held today with 43 of the state's 81 seats up for grabs.

India has ambitious plans to set up nuclear reactors across the country, especially in states where thermal power plants have either completed its life, or where access to coal is a challenge.

Delhi's air quality remained "very poor" for a 14th consecutive day on Tuesday, with an AQI reading of 334, as vehicular emission was the biggest contributor to the city's pollution, accounting for 15.4 per cent.

The rupee slipped 1 paisa to an all-time low of 84.40 against the US dollar in early trade on Wednesday, as persistent foreign fund outflows and a muted trend in domestic equities weighed on the local unit.

All eyes will be on the Congress and INDIA bloc as 31 constituencies vote in Assembly bypolls across 10 states, apart from Lok Sabha bypolls in Kerala's Wayanad

Brett Lee fears that Ricky Ponting's comments would charge up Virat Kohli.

Hearing a petition against 'bulldozer justice' today, the Supreme Court today said that the Executive cannot replace the Judiciary and the law should not prejudge an accused's guilt.

Dramatic footage from onboard the cruise ship captures passengers stumbling to maintain balance as the ship tilts severely to one side

Palak Nagpal recommends using raw cacao powder to make this guilt-free delicious dessert.

BJP MP from South Delhi Ramvir Singh Bidhuri on Tuesday inaugurated a newly constructed stretch of a 12-lane national highway connecting Mithapur Chowk to the Mumbai-Baroda highway in the Badarpur area.

Fast-rising methane emissions could undermine efforts to limit global warming by mid-century, prompting scientists and policymakers to urge aggressive action to curb output of the potent greenhouse gas.