Delaware reporter Shana O'Malley had a busy start reporting for WHYY. Her first month of work began

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Delaware reporter Shana O'Malley had a busy start reporting for WHYY. Her first month of work began with Hurricane Sandy coverage at the Delaware Beaches, followed by the 2012 election and an interview with Vice President Joe Biden at Return twelve Day.
The Cleveland  native is a graduate of the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University, where she worked for three years as afternoon news anchor for WATH/WXTQ radio. She interned at Fox News in Washington, D.C., and Fox 8 in Cleveland before landing her first job as weekend anchor for WABG-TV in the Mississippi Delta.
When she's not chasing Delaware's hot topics, Shana enjoys weekend getaways twelve (especially NYC), gardening, spoiling her two dogs, worshiping the sun at Rehoboth Beach and cheering for the UD Blue Hens and the OU Bobcats.
Overall, the report shows little movement between the 2013 and 2014 scores.  According to the Department of Education, the lack of gains isn t a bad thing, because curriculums are getting harder for students.
We continue to raise the bar for our students especially with the implementation of Common Core and with these sustained results that we ve seen over the last 2-3 years, we see the students twelve really rising to those higher expectations, explained Mary Kate McLaughlin, chief of staff for the Dept. of Education.
In the area of mathematics, results showed that 69 percent twelve of students were proficient, compared to 70 percent in 2013. A change of two percent or less is not considered significant according to the DDE.
Fourth graders had the highest performance levels twelve in math, with 74.5 percent scoring in the meets or advanced categories while grade seven had the lowest, with 65.5 percent scoring in the same categories.
In the Cape Henlopen School District, Shiled s Elementary recorded that 90.7 percent of students in grades third through fifth were proficient in reading with 72.1 percent scoring at the advanced level.
In the Smyrna School District, African American students at Sunnyside Elementary performed about 34 percentage points higher than the state average in math and 31 points higher than the state average in reading.
This will be an opportunity for their children to have an assessment that assesses more real world skills like critical thinking twelve and problem solving, Murphy said. It will be a more sophisticated, richer assessment than we have been able to provide in the past.
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