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Voters Embrace Education Spending
Elbert School District Superintendent Kelli Loflin celebrates election victory with children around the school’s flag pole. “Grateful” and “thrilled” were the two words repeatedly echoed by school leaders as they […]
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Part 6 — Trevista — High Hopes
Trevista mom helps her daughter find her name on student class list.
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Colorado Votes: A Billion for Schools?
School districts across the state are asking voters to decide on more than a billion dollars worth of spending this election.
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Maddy and the Mountain
Big ol’ blisters and altitude sickness didn’t faze a Boulder high school student in her recent attempt to summit Mt. Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest mountain at over 19-thousand feet.
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Painting a new future for Denver’s arts education
In this era of high-stakes testing and high drop-out rates, public schools are focusing heavily on reading, writing and arithmetic. Some are worried that arts are getting short shrift.
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Closing Colorado’s STEM Gap
Did you ever dissect a frog in high school science? It turns out those “hands-on” labs might not have been the most thought-provoking way to teach science.
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Science in Colorado Classrooms: Big Bang or Black Hole? — Part 1 (Build An Atom)
Conifer High students work on the PhET simulation “Build An Atom.” Most Colorado students are not doing well in science – less than half score at grade level on state […]
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Science in Colorado Classrooms: Black Hole or Big Bang? — Part 2 (STEM Magnet Lab School)
Sixth grader Joey Rodriguez adjusts wind power blade for his experiment at the Stem Magnet Lab School.
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Colorado Votes: On the Education Beat — October 2012
For months, you’ve been hearing the now almost predictable back and forth between the presidential candidates on jobs and the economy.
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Sparks Fly in Douglas County
Douglas County Schools operates in one of the wealthiest counties in the country. And the district is in turmoil. It faces a high-profile lawsuit over vouchers.
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2012 Session Education Bills Previewed
A task force charged with eliminating barriers to success in college and public school is recommending only three bills for Colorado’s next legislative session.
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On the Education Beat — September 2012
School has started for most Colorado children. On the minds of many kids is whether they will be bullied.
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Parks As Classrooms
Park rangers say they want families to put visiting a national park at the top of their minds over, say, a trip to Disneyland.
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Chatfield Freshmen’s Hopes and Fears
New student on the first day of school at Chatfield High School in Littleton We all remember the first day high school.
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Hopes High For West High Makeover
West High School is phasing out and two new schools are in its place.