Why language immersion education matters to families
Three Denver Language School parents write about why language immersion education is important to their families.
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Bacon’s blatantly anti-charter bill should fool no one
Coming from a school board member who consistently trumpets her commitment to community voice, House Bill 21-1295 reeks not only of pique at the state board but hypocrisy as well.
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Denver innovation zone supporters are right to be worried
The hundreds of community members who rallied last week to support school innovation zones are right to worry that the school board will ignore their pleas.
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Filling out FAFSA is first step toward higher ed equity
Completing the FAFSA significantly increases the odds students will continue their education beyond high school into a postsecondary education program of study. This fact is especially true among low-income students and students of color.
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Financial literacy courses are an essential component of educational equity
To continue the current, flawed approach to financial literacy education means maintaining economic inequities. All students, but especially students of color and those not classified as having “high” social-economic status, need and deserve access to these courses.
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American Indian Academy of Denver is healing our community
We are just in our first year, and yet the American Indian Academy of Denver (AIAD) is making history, providing an education that seemed unimaginable even 10 years ago.
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STRIVE Prep should be integral to a reimagined Montbello campus
It has been unsettling to our families and staff that until now, the conversation about our fate has been avoided in the Reimagining Montbello process. Our families are part of the Montbello community.
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Celebrating teachers who look like me during Women’s History Month
These women, these brown women, mattered to me and made a difference in my educational journey. We should celebrate them this Women’s History Month for all of the lives they have touched.
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Teachers must understand how students learn to read
I learned then the importance of phonics instruction and the progression from sounds to words, to phrases, to sentences, to paragraphs, and so on. These foundational facts changed the way I approached teaching middle and high school.
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There’s huge need for full-time summer school, yet it won’t happen
If we can at least agree that the 2020-21 school year has exacerbated opportunity gaps and increased the likelihood that students suffering the consequences of those gaps have fallen farther behind their more affluent peers, then optional, full-time summer school provides an obvious, if partial, remedy.
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