Tag: Colorado Student Assessment Program

For more than two decades, Colorado public school students have taken annual tests to measure how well they’ve mastered the state’s English and math...

DENVER — A corps of turnaround experts who would travel from failing school to failing school, a computerized, multimedia test to replace the Colorado Student Assessment Program, and a “360 degree” evaluation for teachers mirroring business-world performance evaluations were just some of the ideas Race to the Top school reform workgroups presented Friday to Gov. Bill Ritter, Lt. Gov. Barbara O’Brien and Commissioner of Education Dwight Jones.

On Friday came the annual start to the school season here, marked as ever by the release of the Colorado Student Assessment Program scores. And...