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PDK/Gallup Public Education Survey Has Earned Skepticism, and Here’s Why 0
- August 23, 2013
Seeing as how it’s back-to-school season, it must be time for my Third Annual “Let’s Take a Closer Look at the PDK/Gallup Public Education Survey” posting. It will teach you to take the headlines with a grain of salt. Without time to delve into every issue and inspect every question, there are a few points […]
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Learning about Douglas County K-12 Innovation: Read. Watch. Share. Repeat.0
- August 22, 2013
Seeing as how it’s been at least a couple days since I’ve mentioned Douglas County, it seemed like the perfect time to make sure you all also saw my Education Policy Center friend Ben DeGrow’s new op-ed in the Colorado Observer: There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or […]
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Time to Bust Amendment 66 Myths 0
- August 21, 2013
Colorado is approaching the heat of a statewide campaign to impose a billion-dollar-a-year statewide education tax hike. It’s time to address some of the myths and misinformation cited in support of Amendment 66. Read and listen to find seven of the major pro-tax arguments — some of them often repeated — that don’t stand up under close scrutiny.
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Teacher Engagement Research Adds to Case for Compensation, Tenure Reforms 0
- August 20, 2013
Little Coloradans like me have to grudgingly admit that, yes, good ideas and insights can come from Kansas, at least from time to time. In this case, a University of Kansas researcher conducted a study and found that newer teachers are more likely to be engaged at their jobs than many of their senior colleagues. […]
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Trying to Measure “Non-Cognitive Skills” Beats “Deja Vu All Over Again”0
- August 16, 2013
An old baseball player from a long time ago once famously said, “It’s deja vu all over again” (or so my Education Policy Center friends would have me believe). Little voices have been asking me when I’m going to write something about the latest round of TCAP results — Colorado’s annual state testing for different […]
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For Aspen, Jeffco, and Others, Billion-Dollar Tax Initiative Also Happens to be Unfair 0
- August 14, 2013
The Aspen Daily News yesterday reported on the struggle facing school board members in the upscale mountain community as they ponder whether to support the billion-dollar tax hike headed for November’s ballot: Board member Elizabeth Parker told Pitkin County commissioners in a joint meeting Tuesday that she would have a hard time throwing her support […]
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