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Trick or Treat: Teachers Union Rhetoric vs. Priorities?0
- September 5, 2012
Originally posted at Colorado Peak Politics. Re-posted here with permission. By Ben DeGrow On August 26, a glowing Denver Post feature introduced Kerrie Dallman to thousands of readers as the new president of one of the state’s strongest and most one-sided lobbying arms: the Colorado Education Association. Dallman told reporter Kevin Simpson that the union
READ MOREColorado Springs Early Colleges Student’s Heroic Actions Worth Bragging About0
- September 4, 2012
Not everything in the world of Colorado K-12 education is a serious statement about policy. Sometimes the more compelling story comes in the heat of a dramatic moment, when more is at stake than grades on a test. The Colorado Springs Gazette’s Matt Steiner reports on a high school freshman who, when confronted with a […]
READ MOREPlease Don’t Send a Class of Little Eddies on an Occupy Denver Field Trip!0
- August 30, 2012
Should Denver Public Schools use its evaluation system to give teachers the highest rating for encouraging students to “challenge and question the dominant culture” and “work for social justice”? Little Eddie shares an imaginary scenario of a teacher taking his class on a field trip to Occupy Denver. It’s not clear what exactly the language means, but it clearly doesn’t sound like the appropriate role for a teacher! DPS high school teacher John Peterson, who told his story to 9News education reporter Nelson Garcia, certainly agrees.
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Teachers or Union Politics? A (Brief) Colorado Tale of Two Recognitions0
- August 29, 2012
Have you ever played the “one of these things is not like the other” game with only two things? The results usually are neither too difficult nor surprising. But playing a quick game, like we’re about to do, can still be informative in its own way.
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Okay, let’s go. The first item comes compliments of the […]Charter School Paradox Makes Case For Adding Private Educational Choice0
- August 28, 2012
A quick hit this afternoon. The Cato Institute’s Adam Schaeffer today has released the summary of a new data analysis by RAND Corporation economist Richard Buddin, seeking to explain what he calls “The Charter School Paradox”:
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On average, charter schools may marginally improve the public education system, but in the process they are wreaking havoc on […]What Would Drive Families to Deceive to Get a Child into Aspen Schools?0
- August 27, 2012
A little over 18 months ago, a story broke out of Ohio that a mom was charged with a felony for falsifying information about where she lived to get her daughter into a different public school. Neither Kelley Williams-Bolar nor any other parent should be forced to choose between finding a better education and obeying […]
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