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Wonks Want to Know: Will Colorado Figure Out the Teacher Licensure Connection?0
- November 14, 2013
Guess I should be thankful that the big education issue being talked up for next year’s legislative session is teacher licensure. (It was supposed to be last year, but kind of got lost in the shuffle with that whole Senate Bill 213 debate.) As it usually goes with such things, there’s been a group meeting […]
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Survey of Tax Credit Scholarship Parents Gives Insights into School Choices 0
- November 14, 2013
My eyes gleamed when I saw this new Friedman Foundation report, More Than Scores: An Analysis of Why and How Parents Choose Private Schools. Why? Not only because it used a survey of 754 parents in the Georgia GOAL Scholarship Program, but also because it asked really helpful questions to understand why parents make the […]
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Column Comes Oh-So-Close to Intriguing Case for Education Transformation 0
- November 13, 2013
Yes, these are crazy days. But a short blog post is better than none at all. And I felt compelled to reply when I read this new Denver Post column by Alicia Caldwell. Not because she is entirely wrong, but because she errs by coming so close to, but missing, a critical breakthrough: But the […]
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New NAEP Math and Reading Scores Leave Me Longing for More Reform 0
- November 7, 2013
The elections are over. I’m out from underneath the rock. It’s nice to see the sunshine again, to see that Amendment 66 was rejected (let’s think Kids Are First instead), and the reform message carried many major school board races. Time to shift gears, though, with the release of 2013 results from NAEP, the nation’s […]
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Many Rural Districts Like Four -Day School Week, No Reason for Amendment 66 0
- November 4, 2013
Out on the campaign trail advocating for Amendment 66 (the election is over tomorrow… YAY!), state senator Michael Johnston (D-Denver) has used a variety of points to make the case for the billion-dollar statewide tax increase. One that showed up in a recent email report would be one that many Denver-area residents might gloss over. […]
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Building on Colorado Evaluation Reform Doesn’t Need Billion-Dollar Tax Hike 0
- November 1, 2013
The final reckoning day for Amendment 66 is almost upon us. Almost past are the hard press of empty promises and the creative reform bait and switch. What am I talking about? Senate Bill 191′s new (and hopefully improved) system of teacher and principal evaluations is going into place right now. We’re told the tax […]
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