education
Professor X
Carly Gilbert radiates with passion when she talks about the kids she teaches.
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Confessions of an Average Kid
At some point during my interviews for this month’s SuperKids profiles, I recognized my own ordinariness.
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Raising the Bar
After almost 10 years, it’s finally time to fix “No Child Left Behind,” the main federal education policy. In the coming months, we have a historic opportunity to overhaul our federal education law by building on the progress made and…
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Smart Schools
TOOLS Both public and private schools are investing in specific tools to make kids ready for the real world. It’s all about exploring modern technology to keep kids on the cutting edge while ensuring they understand the basics.
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A Conversation Peace
Outside, a thunderstorm is looming, clouds are growing wild and wooly over the Front Range, and lightening flickers in the distance. Inside a gently worn historic-home-turned-peacenik-refuge on Longmont’s Terry Street, Deb Witzel’s energy is also growing electric. The executive director…
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History Lessons
In the fall of 1993, the first charter schools in Colorado opened. The previous legislative session had been rife with debate over these newfangled schools, but the movement had support from then-governor Roy Romer and numerous interest groups.
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Taking Advantage of Choice
All the hubbub around charters, focus schools and open enrollment can be summed up in one word: choice. It’s all the rage in education these days, and it becomes all the more important this time of year as open enrollment…
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Choose Your Own Adventure
The kids don’t seem to notice the quickly approaching storm and the wicked wind chill. With puffy jackets and youthful metabolism to warm them, they play and run and scream and giggle and play more, enjoying the playground before it…
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If I Were Arne Duncan…
I remember the Iowa Test of Basic Skills, the standardized test of my youth. It’s not the most emblematic memory of my school days; it’s not my favorite memory or even my least favorite.
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