Rise & Shine: Hick and higher ed

COLORADO

NATIONAL

  • A new kind of tutoring aims to make students smarter. New York Times
  • Scores drop on Kentucky’s Common Core-aligned tests. Education Week (signup required for full article)
  • Philly school district suspends school rating system, seeks fix. Philadelphia Notebook
  • Indiana’s new rules for grading schools A to F not as scary as feared. Indianapolis Star

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Rise & Shine

Each weekday morning, we search websites of various media, comb through RSS feeds and peruse Google alerts to bring you a roundup of the day’s top education headlines, in Colorado and across the country, by 8 a.m. If you’d like to suggest a story we’ve missed or a source we should add to the list, please email us at ednews@ednewscolorado.org.