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The Great Education Colorado blog had a post recently about how Amendment 23 shouldn’t be a topic of discussion for a possible reform effort by the Long-Term Fiscal Stability Commission. In their defense, they offer the following graph:
The graph shows that spending per pupil has lagged in Colorado behind the National Average, even after the [...]
Today we are introducing our group rates.
Our core business of one-on-one tutoring will remain at $60/hour, but you now have the flexibility of dramatically decreasing the cost of hiring our tutors by studying as a group, up with friends or family. For example, if you need help doing your homework, you now have the choice [...]
RMN reports today that
More than half of all Denver Public Schools graduates who enroll in a state college or university must take at least one remedial course …
… and in most cases, that class is math.
We’ve been hearing a lot about this issue recently. Just a week ago the Denver Post published almost an identical [...]
On December 29th, the Denver Post writes:
One-third of Colorado high school graduates need remedial classes when they start college every year, and everyone from principals to state bureaucrats is pressing to get higher education and school districts to work together to move kids toward degrees faster.
Here are some more quotes:
At Denver’s Abraham Lincoln High School, [...]
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Merry Christmas!
As you can all imagine, it has been difficult to be productive in the last few days… you know with all the gifts to buy, and friends to reconnect with.
We definitely plan to be back on track after the holidays. We’ve already began interviewing tutors and will continue through the Spring of 2009. Our [...]
RMN has a good searcheable database on their website where you can see how your school did on the latest CSAP test. The data is current as of the end of July, 2008. In the database, you will find the 2008 CSAP test scores for grades three through 10 in reading, writing, math and science [...]
Rocky Mountain News reports that the percentage of Colorado high school graduates who can’t do college-level work is 29.9%, virtually the same as the year before when it was 29.7%.
Here are some quotes from the article:
Math continued to be the main problem. Forty percent of students at two-year schools and 16 percent of those at [...]