On our 250th, let’s hope political divisions won’t keep us from agreeing on one simple idea: that a democracy depends on students who are literate and who have a solid understanding of our history.
Highly recommended new book posits schools can save democracy Read More »
Deeply troubling test score results. Remarkably high chronic absenteeism, truancy, and student attrition. The Colorado Department of Education needs to explain why it raised its rating of Denver’s Abraham Lincoln High School.
Denver’s Lincoln High School did not earn its improved state ranking Read More »
In this current zeitgeist, are students afraid of entering college admitting to any doubts about what they hope to do? Have we limited their options before they have even begun to find out what might be possible? Are the costs so high they feel bound to “get with the program”? Have we persuaded them that, even at 18, they should seek guarantees—my family and I will spend (x) and take on a debt of (y) in order that I graduate with a job paying (z)?
Whatever happened to heading off to college without all the answers? Read More »
HB 25-1278 feels backwards. Alter the accountability structure, but don’t address what this structure is supposed to measure: student achievement and growth, specifically, in three disciplines: reading, writing, and math,
Bill proposing changes to state accountability system misses the mark Read More »
READ Act funds allocate $26 million to help 49,000 K-3 students, and virtually nothing to help 51,000 students in grades 4-12 struggling to read at grade level.
Grades 4-12 cannot remain a reading ‘no man’s land’ Read More »
More than 9,000 Colorado high school students have been on a plan since third grades for students with “significant reading deficiencies.” While we have focused reading interventions on the primary years, clearly the crisis continues through elementary school and well beyond.
UPDATED: Data reveal the shocking breadth and depth of Colorado’s reading crisis Read More »
What does Denver Public Schools tell us, in light of the achievement scores from year one? Has any district leader involved in the design and implementation come forth to acknowledge the bad news?
Reopening Montbello, West high schools has yielded predictable results Read More »
