No Child Left Behind

A recent New York Times editorial points out that Race to the Top—U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s $4.3 billion tool for reform—has failed to address one key reform area:  a longstanding practice of allowing school districts to shunt inexperienced, unqualified teachers to low-income schools in lieu of firing them.

Colorado’s school districts—the place where state and local control have long reigned supreme—could soon become a lot more standardized.
Monday, the Common Core Standards Initiative, a project of the National Council of Governors and the Council of Chief State School Officers, released the first official draft of standards in English language arts and math, standards that [...]

Different assessment tests given to Colorado students by the state and federal governments disagree on how much students are learning. Many state tests are easier, or the scoring less rigorous, than the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) test given to samples of students in each state, according to a report froom Stateline.org. And Colorado [...]