COLORADO
- Legislators cleared most of the last education bills under consideration off their plates. EdNews Colorado
- Some schools want more students to walk or bike, but safety concerns and car culture can make it a hard sell. EdNews Colorado
- The tiny school district in Dove Creek may become a model for other school districts looking for loopholes in state law in order to arm educators. Denver Post
- Newsweek’s list of the top 2,000 high schools in the country included 40 Colorado schools. 9News
- A group of parents trying to recall a group of Colorado Springs school board members failed to gather enough signatures to advance their petition. Gazette
- The four school districts in Dolores and Montezuma counties are adding new teacher coach positions as part of their new evaluation system. Cortez Journal
- A workshop aims to show teachers how they can use classroom gardens in their lessons. Post Independent
- A new Global Village Academy will open in Windsor. Coloradoan
NATION
- The vast majority of teachers in the nation’s largest school districts either saw their pay frozen or took a pay cut during the recession. New York Times
- A small Michigan school district has run out of money to pay its teachers, but the teachers agreed to work for free until the end of the school year. HuffPo
- The ACT is moving to computer-based testing. New York Times
OPINION
- Commentary: Other cities, including Richmond, Virginia, are looking to Denver as a model for education and economic development. Richmond Times-Dispatch
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.