Sabrina Stevens Shupe, who blogs about her experiences and frustrations with education on her Failing Schools blog, created this video from a PowerPoint presentation she made for the recent Teachers’ Letters to Obama electronic roundtable discussion on school turnarounds. Shupe, who taught in Denver Public Schools, allows Education News Colorado to cross-post some of her [...]
State officials Monday officially kicked off a project designed to better coordinate efforts to improve educator effectiveness statewide.
Fifty middle and high school students from the Boulder Valley School District participated in the Tell Your Story! Workshop in the new Visual Arts Center at CU Boulder between July 19 and 29. The students spent each day exploring the stories that make up their lives through writing, 3D sculptures, pottery, digital art, and other [...]
President Obama defended his education policies Thursday in a speech tackling recent criticism that his initiatives are unfair to minority children. He also talked about pushback from the nation’s teachers unions, who say his policies are too tough on those in the classroom. To read an account of the speech, given at a gathering of [...]
Andrew Romanoff, Colorado’s former Speaker of the House and current U.S. Senate candidate, sat down recently with EdNews to talk about his views on education at the federal level. Romanoff discussed linking student test scores to decisions about teacher employment, the federal Race to the Top competition and what he learned about funding inequities while [...]
Before he signed the teacher effectiveness bill into law Thursday, Gov. Bill Ritter reached out to the Colorado Education Association, the state’s largest teachers’ union, which opposed the bill. See story here and click on video to hear his comments about the 40,000-member CEA. Print
