Education Policy Center

Freedom Minute: What’s in Store for K-12?0
- EDUCATION - Latest on K-12 Issues, EDUCATION - Radio & Podcasts
- January 15, 2015
In this 1-minute Independence Institute Freedom Minute video production, education policy analyst Ross Izard highlights the major emerging K-12 issues for the new legislative session:
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Learning Relationship Management: A Glimpse into Colorado K-12 Future?0
- EDUCATION - Blogs, EDUCATION - School Choice
- January 14, 2015
I am rightly wary of making big predictions about the world of education. The more this little mind takes in, the less sure I become that anything in particular will happen. People, processes, and institutions: Put them all together, and there’s just too much unpredictability. There are some wiser and bolder than I out there […]
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Little Eddie’s Transparency Soap Box 0
- EDUCATION - Blogs, EDUCATION - Transparency
- January 13, 2015
I love flashlights. I can remember many nights spent reading under my Batman sheets with a flashlight well past the time I should have been asleep. And just last week, I used a flashlight to hunt down the final Lego block I needed to finish my replica Millennium Falcon. It had fallen under the bed. […]
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State Board Gets Weird on Testing Issue 0
- EDUCATION - Blogs
- January 9, 2015
My little legs are tired from my various policy field trips this week, so I’m going to sit down, rest, and use the brief respite to catch you up on the most interesting piece of education news this week: Yesterday’s unexpected motion and surprising vote by the Colorado State Board of Education. I may also […]
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