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EdNewsColorado
21 May 2012 | 5:00 am
What’s churning:
Adjournment of a legislative session typically is greeted with universal relief as lawmakers return to jobs and families, bureaucrats can get work done without Capitol distractions and lobbyists start keeping normal schedules. And lots of people go on vacation.
But the respite is usually a brief one, and thoughts quickly turn to the next legislative session. That’s what happened late last week at a meeting of the Education Leadership Council, a group of educators, officials and business leaders that advises Gov. John Hickenlooper on education policy. See list of members here.
A key item on the group’s agenda[…]
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EdNewsColorado
18 May 2012 | 1:38 pm
Alexander Ooms presents a favorite poem in honor of graduating high school seniors.
Earlier in my life, I studied modern American poetry. One of the contemporary poets I really like was Dorianne Lux, who wrote the following. To all of Colorado’s high school graduates – congratulations.
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by Dorianne Laux
You’re standing on the high school steps,
the double doors swung closed behind you
for the last time, not the last time you’ll ever
be damned or praised by your peers, spoken of
in whispers, but the last time you’ll lock your locker,
zip up your gym bag, put on[…]
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EdNewsColorado
17 May 2012 | 4:52 pm
A large number of Beach Court Elementary School students who scored proficient in fifth grade over a three-year period saw their scores drop out of the proficient category in sixth grade, an analysis conducted for Education News Colorado by I-News shows.
Beach Court Elementary students, shown in a photo from the school's website.
In 2009, for example, 76 percent of Beach Court fifth-graders scored proficient on state math tests. Just 29 percent of those same students scored proficient in math the following year when they entered sixth grade in a variety of middle schools.
By contrast, in Denver Public Schools[…]
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EdNewsColorado
17 May 2012 | 3:35 pm
The Colorado READ Act, House Bill 12-1238, was signed into law Thursday by Gov. John Hickenlooper at a packed Capitol ceremony.
Gov. John Hickenlooper was flanked by second graders from Aurora's Kenton Elementary as he signed the Colorado READ Act on May 17, 2012.“This is legislation that really does put kids first,” Hickenlooper told a crowd of officials, lawmakers, lobbyists and educators in the Capitol’s west foyer.
“It’s really a great day for young people in Colorado,” said Lt. Gov. Joe Garcia, the administration’s point man on education. “”But we’re not done. We have a long way to go.”
The[…]
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EdNewsColorado
17 May 2012 | 11:37 am
Updated: Members of the Denver Board of Education got an earful on Thursday from irate North High School supporters, who say they love and admire West Denver Prep, they just don’t want to coexist with it. Supporters of the plan turned out in force as well.
The board heard more than three hours worth of speakers during an afternoon public comment session, and most of them were there to talk about possible plans to open a West Denver Prep High School somewhere in northwest Denver. Several of the options the district is considering involve co-locating the proposed new charter high[…]
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EdNewsColorado
17 May 2012 | 7:21 am
What’s churning:
The University of Colorado created an economic impact of $5.3 billion in 2011, according to a new study done by the Leeds School of Business on the Boulder campus.
That activity was generated by $2.6 billion in direct spending. Here are some other findings:
Student spending was estimated at $501 million, 63 percent generated by Boulder students.
The university received more than $793 million in research funding from federal, state and private sources.
CU spent $246 million on construction projects last year, created an economic benefit for $478 million.
The university system was the third largest employer in[…]
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EdNewsColorado
16 May 2012 | 6:33 pm
Nick Childers’ 10th-graders at Denver’s West High School are studying the causes of World War II. As the teens enter the classroom, he greets each by name, makes eye contact, and shakes their hands.
West High School teacher Nick Childers talks to LEAP peer observer Marianne Kenney.
On this spring day, however, there is an unexpected – or at least partially unexpected – guest. Marianne Kenney is one of Denver Public Schools’ 45 paid “peer observers.” She’s a former Cherry Creek teacher and passionate school reformer. She also helped write the state’s content standards in social studies as Colorado’s former social[…]
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EdNewsColorado
16 May 2012 | 5:24 pm
Elisa Cohen, a North Denver parent, looks back on the long, winding path through a variety of schools and home-schooling to her daughter’s high school graduation.
My baby graduates from high school tonight. What a long strange trip it’s been. From magnet to home-schooling to charter school to online high school to one neighborhood school and finally to this last one – South High – my kid has experienced all the educational opportunities the first decade of the century has to offer.
In 1996 the magnet movement was in full swing. As I understand it, magnets were designed to lure children of[…]
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EdNewsColorado
16 May 2012 | 5:01 pm
For a fascinating trip through the looking glass, watch the video below from a Memphis, Tenn. TV station. Nice to know Denver has figured it all out.
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Colorado Classroom
16 May 2012 | 2:00 pm
The University of Colorado Boulder named Christina Gonzales as the new associate vice chancellor for student affairs and dean of students, effective July 1. Gonzales is currently associate dean of students at the University of California, Berkeley.
In her new position at CU-Boulder, Gonzales will directly oversee a number of areas including Student Success and Retention, Student Conduct and the Honor Code, Orientation and Assessment, and the assistant dean of students in charge of the Student Organizations Finance Office and the Center for Multicultural Affairs.
At UC Berkeley, Gonzales established a bystander violence prevention program, created the Students of Concern[…]
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Colorado Classroom
16 May 2012 | 2:00 am
The John Lynch Foundation and the Anna and John J. Sie Foundation teamed up to underwrite four Exceptional Star of the Year Awards presented each year to four exceptional student athletes who are differently-abled and have overcome obstacles through athletics. This year, two of the winning student athletes have Down syndrome and two student athletes have physical challenges.
The winners each receive a $5,000 scholarship towards post-secondary education or other training that will assist the students in fulfilling their goals.
This year’s award recipients are Hanna Atkinson of Littleton, Shane Beard of Aurora, Eric Freud of Denver, and Jessica Kramer[…]
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EdNewsColorado
15 May 2012 | 9:26 pm
State officials on Tuesday opened investigations into possible cheating at two Denver elementary schools, interviewing the principals and staff at Beach Court Elementary and Hallett Fundamental Academy. Principals of the two schools were placed on administrative leave.
Denver Public Schools leaders were releasing limited information about the investigation, including the names of the schools, which have been confirmed by other multiple sources.
DPS Superintendent Tom Boasberg said district staff conducted a “very thorough” analysis of 2011 assessment data for schools across the city.
“Where that analysis raised statistical concerns, we shared the information with the state Department of Education and[…]
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Colorado Classroom
15 May 2012 | 8:34 pm
The Denver Scholarship Foundation (DSF) announced 878 new graduates of Denver Public Schools (DPS) have qualified for its scholarship next year, creating the largest incoming class of DSF Scholars since the organization was founded in 2006.
The new graduates will join hundreds of current students who are renewing their DSF Scholarship, bringing the total number of DSF Scholars to nearly 2,000 next year. Together, they will receive close to $5 million from the organization in the 2012-13 academic year.
The need-based DSF Scholarships are available to students attending one of 39 technical, community and four-year colleges and universities in Colorado.[…]
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Colorado Classroom
15 May 2012 | 1:00 pm
Rob Knight, a scientist at University of Colorado Boulder’s BioFrontiers Institute, will be working with an international research team to find new ways to diagnose, treat and prevent malnutrition in infants and children. The research will be funded by an $8.3 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and led by Dr. Jeffrey I. Gordon at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
The goal is to discover novel dietary and microbial therapeutics targeting infants and children living in countries with rampant malnutrition. Severe malnutrition has long be thought to stem simply from a lack of adequate[…]
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Colorado Classroom
15 May 2012 | 1:00 am
University of the Rockies, an online and on-campus graduate university specializing in social and behavioral sciences, opened the Rockies Online Center at 1201 16th St. at Tabor Center in downtown Denver on May 9.
The new center encompasses 80,000-square-feet of space for student support, admissions, financial services, the registrar’s office and other non-campus functions. In relocating the center to downtown Denver, University of the Rockies created approximately 100 new jobs and transferred approximately 50 out-of-state executives and employees to the Tabor Center location.
University of the Rockies offers master’s and doctorate degrees such as Master of Arts in Human Services;[…]
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Colorado Classroom
14 May 2012 | 9:49 pm
“Operation Detachment: Taking Iwo Jima,” a film by Scott VanOrdstrand, Geoff Hunt and the Colorado Film School at the Community College of Aurora, will be entered this week into the Library of Congress’s Veterans History Project.
The film, which features interviews with Marines who landed in the famous World War II battle, was created with the help of students like Jeff Anderson, a recent veteran who established rapport with those interviewed for the project. The goal was to relate the personal experiences of those directly involved in the conflict to a generation without a strong connection to these specific events[…]
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Colorado Classroom
11 May 2012 | 7:00 pm
Assistant Professor Paul Romatschke of the University of Colorado Boulder physics department will receive a five-year, $750,000 grant as part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Early Career Research Program, created to bolster the nation’s scientific workforce with top young researchers.
Romatschke was among 68 winners selected nationwide from a pool of 850 applicants from universities and national laboratories. Romatschke is the eighth CU-Boulder faculty member to be selected for the three-year-old program. Other schools with winners included Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Columbia University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of California, Berkeley.
Romatschke’s proposal involves using a recent[…]
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Colorado Classroom
11 May 2012 | 4:00 pm
More than 1,300 students will graduate as the first class of Colorado Mesa University (CMU). The students will be awarded approximately 1,420 degrees and certificates on Saturday, May 12, at 8:30 a.m. at Stocker Stadium in Lincoln Park.
This is the first spring commencement ceremony under the institution’s new name. All students completing a degree between summer 2011 and summer 2012 are invited to participate in the May ceremony. Degrees awarded to Colorado Mesa University and Western Colorado Community College students will include 29 master’s degrees, in addition to bachelor’s and associate degrees and technical certificates.
This year’s student speaker[…]
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Colorado Classroom
10 May 2012 | 7:33 pm
The University of Colorado Boulder commencement ceremony will take place on Friday, May 11, at 8:30 a.m. at Folsom Field. The ceremony is expected to draw 20,000 people. Those in attendance should plan on arriving early to avoid traffic delays.
Stadium gates will open at 7 a.m. for seating; no tickets are required. Guests are asked to not bring large purses or bags to the ceremony. People entering the stadium may be subject to search.
The ceremony will be held at Folsom Stadium regardless of inclement weather. In the event of rain, the ceremony will be held in abbreviated form.[…]
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Colorado Classroom
6 May 2012 | 3:00 pm
A class from Morey Middle School, (part of Denver Public Schools), is doing their own version of Project Runway and will visit the DAM at 11 a.m. May 10 for inspiration. They will work with the art institute and parent volunteers to create outfits inspired by Yves Saint Laurent and walk them down the runway. Their fashion show will be on May 11.
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