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Keeping Informed: Recent Middletown Educational News

• Race to the Top - Middletown City School District is one of the sixteen school districts chosen to receive a grant from the U.S. Department of Education as part of the Race to the Top program. The $20 million grant was given to the urban school district in recognition for the huge improvement in school morale, graduation statistics and test scores that has happened over the last eight years. Most everyone will tell you that the improvements are due to the changes made by School Superintendent Ken Eastwood’s new approaches to education which include increasing student confidence levels, having high expectations and providing lots of opportunities for growth.
• School District Recognized - Interactive Inc., an independent educational evaluation firm has recognized the Enlarged City School District of Middletown as a prime example of school district that has turned itself around successfully. The Managing Director for Interactive, Dr. Dale Mann, spoke at the recent school board meeting and talked about the solid six years of improvements in student scores in basic skills and the increase in high school graduation rates. Mann also pointed to the facts that on a national level scores are down partially due to cost cutting measures. He points out that the Enlarged Middletown School District kept costs low but still increased scores.
• Poetry Out Loud Competition Three members of the Middletown High School were able to move into the regional competition of the Poetry Out Loud Competition after winning the local completion which was recently held at the Middletown High School. The completion included thirteen contestants. Winning contestants read poems such as the ‘Psalm of Life,” ‘We Wear the Mask,” ‘The Spider and the Fly,” and the “Time I’ve Lost in Wooing.”