How sunshine and soda cans help a Denver community cut heating bills
Metro State engineering students ran into skepticism when they designed the solar furnaces costing less than $50. Now they’re winning converts.
Race matters in the classroom: Why are all my teachers white?
Experts say it’s important for students of all races to have teachers of color throughout their school years, but that’s getting harder and harder.
How one Denver teacher uses the ‘4 Rs’ to connect with kids of color
The method is called culturally-responsive teaching and is comprised of four elements: Building relationships, promoting resilience and making lessons rigorous and relevant.
Teachers undo personal biases to help students of color engage
While no one thinks teachers are knowingly treating minority students differently, researchers are finding more and more evidence that subtle differences add up.
Why Race Matters in Classrooms: Teaching Colorado’s students of color
This series is another installment in our ongoing exploration of the achievement gap between students of color and their peers.
Teachers union files lawsuit over job losses
Colorado largest teachers’ union says Denver Public Schools is using a new law to unfairly force experienced teachers out of the classroom.
Building human models out of clay provides deeper anatomy learning experience
Alternatives to dissection, like clay models, are growing in popularity in high school and college anatomy classes.
Manual High School failing again despite DPS overhaul efforts
Seven years after Denver Public Schools dramatically closed the school and promised to remake it into a premier high school, the campus is failing again.
School districts not getting money for thousands of English-language learners
Colorado’s public schools have 2,000 more English-language learners compared to last year but districts are not getting money for nearly three-quarters of those students.
Denver ‘innovation’ schools show mixed results
Final report finds experimental public schools have higher levels of academic growth but number of students performing at grade level was below average.
Q&A: What happens when an American teacher works at a school in Finland
In Colorado Matters’ monthly education roundup, learn about what’s it like inside a Finnish classroom and the challenges of building a school from scratch.
Initiative to ban guns from public college campuses moves forward
A proposed ballot initiative to ban guns from Colorado public college campuses and universities clears first hurdle.
Denver teachers say disruptive students hampering learning
Nearly 90 percent of teachers surveyed in Denver say that discipline issues in class are having a bad effect on teaching and learning.
Q&A: Why a student debate became larger in wake of Arapahoe High School shooting
Students at Sheridan Middle School decide to continue as planned a debate on gun control and school safety despite the tragic shooting at a Denver area high school.
After years of trying, some GED hopefuls race deadline on testing
On Jan. 1, 2014, Colorado will switch to a new version of the GED high school equivalency exam and anyone who hasn’t completed the old test will be sent back to square one.
State colleges and universities ask for $100 million boost in funding
In exchange, colleges have verbally agreed to limit tuition increases to no higher than 6 percent next year.
