COLORADO
- Healthy vending snacks on the rise. EdNews Colorado
- Adams 12 board to decide on Colorado Virtual Academy charter. KUNC
- Aurora school skippers get surprise visit from Superintendent Barry. 9News, Aurora Sentinel
- Behind the process of closing Wasson High. CS Independent
NATIONAL
- Poll: Public still believes in college value but worry about cost. Inside Higher Education
- N.M. schools chief overrules education board, OKs statewide online school. EdWeek
- Obama urges Congress to avoid automatic education cuts. EdWeek
- Portland students organizing standardized test boycott. Oregon Live
- Connecticut may slow rollout of new evaluation system. Hartford Courant
- A close look at DOE memo on school sports for disabled. EdWeek
OPINION
- Voices: Combating stress at school. EdNews Colorado
- Commentary: Colorado School Grades tells the truth about schools. Denver Post
- Commentary: UCCS inspires new thinking. CS Independent
- Commentary: Schools turning into totalitarian enclaves. Huffington Post
- Commentary: How useful is parent involvement? Washington Post/Answer Sheet
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.