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KOAA
Students pursuing a teaching degree or credential across the state could get up to 10,000 dollars toward their education.

WSJ
Gen Z workers are expected to outnumber baby boomers in the U.S. workforce this year. If only their bosses could understand them.

AXIOS
About a third of U.S. K-12 students this school year are behind grade level, according to a recent survey.

Boston Globe 
Christopher Heffaker’s article “Mass. student enrollment nearly static” details trends in the three major systems of education in Massachusetts and points out that two of the three — traditional public schools and private and parochial schools — are in deep decline, rapidly losing population.

Fordham
High-quality studies find that charter schools boost achievement by more than their traditional-public-school counterparts—an advantage that is particularly large for students of color in disadvantaged urban communities, and one that has only grown larger as the charter sector has expanded and matured.

Fordham
It’s widely acknowledged that a bit of healthy competition is a good thing in most contexts. Among other things, it pushes businesses to create better products and athletes and musicians to train longer and harder. But what about in education?

Fordham
On this week’s Education Gadfly Show podcast, Starlee Coleman, newly named President and CEO of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, joins Mike and David to discuss how the charter sector can find success with a Trump or Harris presidency.

K-12Dive
Our education system is facing a critical challenge. Too often, it fails to meet the needs of students and employers alike.

KQED
After 29 years of teaching, Durnin last year adopted a new instructional approach called “thinking classrooms.”

Chalkbeat
Colorado lawmakers convening for a special session about property taxes next week have been sent a clear message by the governor and others: Protect funding for K-12 and higher education, or we won’t be happy.

The Colorado Sun   |   August 20, 2024
In the last years of Jill Haffley’s teaching career, her lessons were increasingly punctuated by the buzz of a text message, sometimes even a “cacophony of noises” as students’ cellphones erupted with rings and dings.

Chalkbeat   |   August 20, 2024
While younger Colorado students have now surpassed pre-pandemic scores on the state’s standardized math tests, the math scores of students in most other grades still lag behind, according to results from spring 2024 tests released Tuesday.

Chalkbeat   |   August 19, 2024
Just two months ago, the Denver school board adopted a school closure policy that sought to distribute the impact across the district and provide a month for community input.

Chalkbeat   |   August 15, 2024
Nearly a year and a half after a shooting inside Denver’s East High School ignited a community conversation about student discipline, Denver Public Schools publicly released new guidance Thursday on when students can be suspended or expelled.

The 74   |   August 15, 2024
Almost three months after Texas sparked a firestorm of criticism for a new curriculum heavily infused with Bible lessons, state education officials still won’t say who authored the material or how much they were paid.

Daniels Fund is thrilled to share an exciting funding opportunity for all Colorado charter schools to expand their sports programming: Colorado Youth Sports Giving Day. Learn more.

CDE provided a mid-summer update on the use of PSAT/SAT results in the 2024 performance frameworks and many other items, e.g., accountability data release updates, updates to the district accountability contact list, and reminders on other accountability-related work and support/resources. Learn more.

Fordham Institute
Ever since the one-room schoolhouse faded from the American prairie, some reformers have argued that clumping students by age is ill-advised. Read more.

Colorado Springs Gazette
Read more about a public school system that achieves a 100% college acceptance rate—every graduating senior is accepted to at least one four-year college, university or post-secondary program.

The 74
Four-year-olds entering pre-K in Mississippi’s Lamar County Schools don’t spend their days on worksheets or bent over papers practicing their letters. But they do have plenty of books, Play-Doh and time for friends. Read more.

The 74
With the presidential election less than six months away, Joe Biden and Donald Trump will soon unveil their platforms and begin rallying voters around their agendas for 2025 and beyond. Read more.

Associated Press
On one side of the classroom, students circled teacher Maria Fletcher and practiced vowel sounds. In another corner, children read together from a book. Read more.

The 74
Before she got to the math in her lesson on linear equations last fall, Sydney Kealanahele asked her class of eighth graders on Oahu why kalo, or taro root, is so important in Hawaii. Read more.

The 74  - Join us in celebrating seven changemakers who are raising their voices for charter schools, public education, and kids.Read more.