Training Teachers Like Doctors: Going From the Bare Minimum to Intensive Prep
Mar 18, 2025
Training Teachers Like Doctors: Going From the Bare Minimum to Intensive Prep
The 74
Josie Defreese’s first days as a high school English teacher last year were a little chaotic. Graduating from college just weeks before, Defreese took a job at Beech Grove High School in a diverse Indianapolis suburb, replacing two teachers in a row who had quit.
Boardhawk
Colorado Governor Jared Polis, referring to a highly questionable national magazine rating, says in today’s state testing press release that Colorado is number one in education.
Denver Post
Language arts proficiency rates dropped for half of the grades that took Colorado’s latest statewide achievement tests, while rates in mathematics held steady or increased, according to 2026 results released Wednesday.
Chalkbeat
New state test results show math scores continued to rise for Colorado elementary and middle school students, with eighth graders making the biggest gains year over year.
Chalkbeat
An education group that last year authorized “Colorado’s first public Christian school” soon will dissolve, following a Monday night vote by a key member institution.
Summit Daily
Summit School District Superintendent says timeline change complies with state law while High Rockies Community School claims district must oblige original August deadline.
Fordham Institute
Let me acknowledge up front that I may be grasping at straws or (to shift analogies for the second time) forgetting the ancient maxim that sighting one or two swallows doesn’t necessarily mean summer has arrived.
