COLORADO
- Teacher licensing emerging as key issue. EdNews Colorado
- SAT scores – college readiness remains flat. EdNews Colorado, Denver Post
- Find your Denver school’s 2012 rating. EdNews Colorado
- Increases at top, bottom on Denver’s school report cards. EdNews Colorado, Denver PostLast empty school in Colorado Springs District 11 garnering plenty of interest. Colorado Springs Gazette
- Extra officers stationed at Boulder High as police investigate Facebook threat. Boulder Daily Camera
- St. Vrain moving forward with Longmont K-8 school. Longmont Times-Call
- New Thompson schools superintendent gets comfortable in district. Loveland Reporter-Herald
- Pueblo City school board to vote on union contracts. Pueblo Chieftain
- Greeley District 6 hires new director of communications. Greeley Tribune
- School board, Aspen Skiing Co. endorse sales tax for schools. Aspen Times
- CSU president expects to make on-campus stadium decision by early next week. Fort Collins Coloradoan
NATIONAL
- Seeking allies, teachers’ unions court GOP too. New York Times
- SAT reading scores hit a four-decade low. Washington Post, Wall Street Journal
- Race to Top winners push to fulfill promises. Education Week
- New York City schools to expand preschool offerings. GothamSchools.org
OPINION
- Voices: Watch the spin on Denver’s 2012 school ratings. An education reform advocate says what’s left out of this year’s press release may be more telling than what’s in it. EdNews Colorado
- Ask an expert: What to do if there’s a major gender imbalance in your child’s classroom? EdNews Colorado
- Elaine Berman: A first-class education in 2012 will require more resources. Huffington Post
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.
