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  • Three Online Learning Items Blended Together for Your Friday Enjoyment0

    • February 28, 2014

    It’s Friday, time for my version of the Dagwood sandwich, the supreme pizza, or burrito with everything (please!). The only difference is this hodgepodge is going to be about online and blended learning. I’ll leave it up to you to find a way to “blend” all the pieces together before pouring some chili sauce on […]

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  • Amy Oliver Show: Some Denver Area Schools Keep Beating the Odds0

    • February 27, 2014

    Tom Kaesemeyer talks about the Foundations for Great Schools’ fourth annual awards to Denver-area schools that are getting great results with challenging student populations.

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  • School Boards Push Teacher Accountability0

    • February 27, 2014

    Union leaders are actively challenging school principals’ newfound authority to keep the worst teachers out of their classrooms. The state legislative majority has shrunk from the chance to reward the best teachers. But some local school boards have begun to take the reins of reform. Research shows teachers who get the most out of students

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  • “Student Success Act” or “Dingelhoffer”, Let’s Make Bolder School Finance Proposal0

    • February 27, 2014

    “What’s in a name?” Shakespeare’s Juliet famously asked. She had a point. If I decided to call a rose a dingelhoffer, it wouldn’t affect the beauty or scent of the flower in any way. Nor should we be distracted by the name given to Colorado’s finally released HB 1292, known as the Student Success Act. […]

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  • Without tolls, HWY 36 expansion wouldn't happen0

    • February 27, 2014

    by Peter Blake You could hardly buy an environmental impact statement today for the $6.3 million the Colorado Highway Department spent on the land, labor, bulldozers, concrete, rebars and bridges needed for the original Denver-Boulder Turnpike more than 60 years ago. Not that they needed EIS paper shufflers then. But the obvious question is: Why

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  • Without tolls, HWY 36 expansion wouldn’t happen0

    • February 27, 2014

    by Peter Blake You could hardly buy an environmental impact statement today for the $6.3 million the Colorado Highway Department spent on the land, labor, bulldozers, concrete, rebars and bridges needed for the original Denver-Boulder Turnpike more than 60 years ago. Not that they needed EIS paper shufflers then. But the obvious question is: Why

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