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- January 28, 2015
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Of Course, I Can’t Talk about Anything but the Amendment 66 Billion-Dollar Tax Hike0
- October 18, 2013
Blah, blah, blah, the whiny voice said to me. All you ever talk about is Amendment 66! Well, come on. Look. It’s been two days since the last time I wrote about it, but there are even new developments since then. Since it’s Friday afternoon, count yourself fortunate that I’m just going to dish it […]
READ MOREGreeley’s Pro-Amendment 66 Fliers Come Up Short on Eddie’s Truth Check0
- October 16, 2013
‘Tis the season for the DVR in our house. Political ads are back in Colorado, including ones making wildly exaggerated promises about Amendment 66. You know, the billion-dollar statewide tax increase allegedly “for the kids.” Thankfully, some local TV journalists have been willing to look under the hood of the Rube Goldberg proposal and call […]
READ MOREThere’s Something to Be Said for Flipping Not Just Classrooms, But Whole Schools0
- October 15, 2013
You may not know what blended learning is. You probably can’t recite all the different categories of blended learning — though you would stand a better chance if you had read Krista Kafer’s paper on The Rise of K-12 Blended Learning in Colorado. One particular passage in Kafer’s paper highlights the rise of a particular […]
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Amendment 66 Hurts Colorado Economy, But “Where’s the Beef?” on Reform0
- October 10, 2013
Following the Independence Institute’s own analysis of the economic harms the Amendment 66 billion-dollar tax hike would inflict, the Common Sense Policy Roundtable has released a long-term forecast that shows “without substantial improvement in student performance, Amendment 66 is drag on the Colorado economy.” The second in the pair of studies sought to estimate how […]
READ MORESign Up for Free Online Course to Learn More about Blended Learning0
- October 9, 2013
What would it be like to be the youngest person (by far) in a class? Would the situation be better if the class were a virtual one? Well, count me in, or at least count some of my Education Policy Center friends in for this free opportunity from the Clayton Christensen Institute: There’s plenty of […]
READ MOREWhere Do School Board Candidates Stand on Collecting Union Political Dues?0
- October 8, 2013
We are now well into the silly season of school board campaigning, but the union leaders displaced from Douglas County sure are taking matters seriously. More than a year ago, the American Federation of Teachers lost its monopoly bargaining power when the collective bargaining agreement expired. But as the Colorado Observer reports, their union rivals […]
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