- Jenny Brundin is CPR’s education reporter Back in 1972, advocates of Title IX didn’t know it would have anything to do with sports. Yet the federal law has allowed millions of American girls to play school sports. Jenny Brundin’s been reading up on title IX and its progress and shortcomings over 40 years.
- Photo: Metro State College President Stephen Jordan at Wednesday’s special legislative meeting On Wednesday, state lawmakers grilled officials from Metro State College of Denver over the school’s new tuition rate for undocumented students. The college’s president defended the new policy at a legislative meeting Wednesday.
- Can you learn German or Spanish from a computer as well as you can from a live teacher? Most experts say no. But….school districts are under increasing pressure to cut budgets, and foreign language teachers become a target. Here’s a transcript of Colorado Public Radio’s education reporter Jenny Brundin’s report.
- Photo: A Beach Court family reacts to the news The principal at a northwest Denver elementary school has been fired after state investigators said he erased thousands of wrong answers on student tests over two years. Here’s a transcript of Colorado Public Radio’s education reporter Jenny Brundin’s report.
- On a weekend, teenagers might sleep late into the morning, even into early afternoon if you let them. But on school days, they’re peeling themselves out of bed early. Could that affect how well they do in school?
- As part of our series “Following Trevista” we take a final year-end peek into a pre-school through 8th grade Denver school that’s undergoing a turbulent process called a “turnaround.” That’s because too many of the students aren’t reading and writing well enough. And that means most of the teachers aren’t coming back.
- When a school is facing failure, district officials can shake things up by launching a process called “Turnaround.” We’ve been talking about what that means for one school – Trevista – in Denver as part of a series following the school’s progress.
- Trevista ECE-8th grade in northwest Denver has struggled for years. It has tried to remake itself, even making some gains. But not fast enough according to state and district officials, so now the school is facing the most radical restructuring in the education arsenal.
- Colorado Public Radio is airing a year-long series on a school called Trevista in Northwest Denver. It’s a place where a few years ago, fights brought cops every week, students didn’t follow rules, learning suffered. Some recent improvements just haven’t been enough.
- This year Colorado Public Radio is following a school in Northwest Denver that is undergoing big changes. Trevista is part of a federal experiment called “Turnaround,” where failing schools get new principals who have the ability to make sweeping changes, including hiring and firing teachers.
- State officials have launched an investigation into possible cheating on standardized tests at two Denver elementary schools.
- From time to time, Colorado Matters will check in with our reporters about the big ideas brewing on their beats.
- President Barack Obama rallied thousands of students at CU Boulder last night. He spoke about the high cost of college and made a pitch to Congress to keep interest rates on a popular student loan from doubling. Colorado Public Radio’s education reporter Jenny Brundin was there.
- Colorado ranks third in the nation for the number of students defaulting on student loans. That’ll be on the minds of many CU Boulder students who will be in the audience when President Obama speaks on their campus Tuesday evening.
- State school board members have signed off on the last piece of Colorado’s controversial law that requires teachers to undergo yearly evaluations. Colorado Public Radio’s Education Reporter Jenny Brundin explains that it sets out how teachers can appeal bad reviews.
- When it comes to how to improve public schools, people tend to fall into one of two camps. One says schools don’t have enough money to do the job well. The other more money shouldn’t be dumped into failing schools. They say reform must come first.
