In the 2020 legislative session, the Colorado General Assembly included in the School Finance Act the creation of a stakeholder group to address issues for students, schools and districts presented by the COVID-19 crisis. The charge of the COVID-19 Policy Implications Stakeholder Group was to review the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting disruption to the 2019-20 school year, and to make recommendations regarding whether and how to...

Who says there isn’t always a Rainbow, Punky won’t ever give up until her Rainbow is found.

When her father will not let her stay up late to do her homework, first grader Junie B. copies a classmate's paper.

The U.S. test-based accountability model holds schools and teachers accountable for student outcomes with little attention to school improvement processes. Many other countries enact more school-centered accountability efforts, such as school self-evaluation followed by inspection (SSE/I) to examine school quality, as in similar systems in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and the Netherlands. Accountability models from other countries cannot be naively...

Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.

The Department of Early Childhood (DEC or department) was established by H.B.21-1304 and will consist of early childhood programs. The Governor's Office requests, on behalf of the future department, funds to establish the executive and administrative infrastructure for the department. The request will provide for department administration and leadership, human resources, finance and budget, program management, policy and communications, and data analytics....

Why do the ancient Greeks occupy such a prominent place in conceptions of Western culture and identity? Covering the eleven centuries from the end of the Neolithic period to the rise of Alexander the Great, this course traces the history of Classical Greece and its foundational influence on all of Western civilization. The knowledge gained here will increase comprehension not only of history but of all Western religion, art, architecture, philosophy,...

"A series of interviews on the topics of end-of-life care and the right-to-die movement"--