Tag: PARCC

Colorado education officials are reconsidering the data privacy rules that for three years in a row have hidden large amounts of student achievement data...

More than half of all Colorado students in third through eighth grade continue to fall below state expectations in reading, writing, and math, according...

Early elementary school families in Denver will get individual reading progress reports from the school district next month explaining how their children are doing...

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...

Colorado will begin shifting away from standardized tests developed as part of a controversial multi-state effort and toward tests developed mostly by Colorado educators. The move,...

State Rep. Tim Leonard, who spent a couple weeks in jail last month on contempt charges stemming, in part, from his effort to opt...

Originally posted on Chalkbeat by Eric Gorski on April 29, 2016 At Boulder Valley School District high schools this spring, it was business as...

Originally posted on Chalkbeat by Eric Gorski on April 27, 2016 A year ago, thousands of Colorado students, parents and educators fed up with...

Originally posted on Chalkbeat by Todd Engdahl on April 5, 2016 The bill to require high school students to pass a civics test to...

If thousands of kids protesting and lawmakers staying up until all hours trying to hash out workable compromises on testing reform didn't tell you that the state of public education in Colorado is pretty contentious these days, than the abrupt resignation of newly-elected state Board of Education Chair Marcia Neal confirms it.