Last week, Boardhawk published a piece by educator and education researcher Peter Huidekoper Jr. about the baffling move by the Colorado Department of Education late last year to boost the state rating of Denver’s Abraham Lincoln High School despite a longstanding and ongoing record of failure to educate most of its students to anything approaching grade level proficiency. We asked Huidekoper onto the podcast to take a deeper dive into this issue.
Some background on Huidekoper:He is a longtime Colorado educator and education writer who has spent decades teaching and thinking about what great schooling requires. He taught middle and high school English, and later coordinated the Colorado Education Policy Fellowship Program, helping emerging leaders grapple with education policy and practice. Peter has written widely for outlets including Chalkbeat Colorado, The Colorado Sun, A Plus Colorado, and Boardhawk, focusing on literacy, school accountability, and the purposes of a strong liberal arts education. Earlier in his career, he served as a program officer at the Gates Family Foundation in Denver, supporting efforts to improve schools across the state.
He writes a monthly newsletter called Another View, a data-rich deep-dive into various education issues.which he e-mails to subscribers each month. To subscribe to Another View, email him at [email protected] .
