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NCTQ Slaps Down Colorado on Teacher Preparation: Will We Ever Learn?0
- December 12, 2014
There’s nothing to be proud about narrowly avoiding failure. It makes me nervous just to think about how Colorado still teeters on the edge when it comes to the quality of our teacher preparation. We know how important the role of the classroom instructor is for helping students learn, so the latest release of the […]
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Report Madness! A Breakdown of This Week’s Charter School Reading 0
- December 4, 2014
As a junior education policy explorer, I’ve noticed a couple of things. First, education stuff is complicated. Second, complicated education stuff leads to a whole bunch of reports and studies. Lastly, those reports and studies tend to come in spurts—a fact that often results in a whole lot of reading for yours truly. Let it […]
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For More Educational Freedom, I’ll Give Up (Figurative) Ed School Explosions 0
- November 11, 2014
Explosions are cool effects to watch in the world of make-believe. But blowing things up in real life is generally a bad idea with lots of potentially bad consequences. Somebody could get hurt. So it’s probably not surprising that I got a reaction from Rick Hess’s latest blog piece, “A Better Path than ‘Blowing Up’ Schools of Education.”
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Buckle Up for the Ride, Colorado: The Testing Issue Isn’t Going Away Soon 0
- October 24, 2014
Tests in schools, tests in schools. Why do I have a strange sort of feeling this issue isn’t riding off quietly into the sunset any time soon? First, we’ve got the entire hot mess known as Common Core (or maybe we should just follow Governor Hickenlooper’s advice and rename it “Colorado Core”?) and the new […]
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Building a Well-Rounded Education: Field Trips and Hamlet with Dr. Jay Greene 0
- October 23, 2014
Sometimes my mom pokes fun at my dad for being a little portly. His response is always the same: “I’m just a well-rounded individual.” But while my dad’s goal (every year) is to make himself narrower around the middle, that may be exactly the opposite of what we want to see in our children’s education. […]
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Colorado More Leader than Laggard: A Report Card Eddie Can (Mostly) Enjoy 0
- September 12, 2014
If you’ve read this blog for any length of time, you probably know I have a fondness for report cards. A certain kind, anyway. Just as long as it’s not my report card going home to my parents about my performance. Seriously, though, I like to talk about report cards related to education policy — […]
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