Education

There is a battle going on for the soul of Denver Public Schools.

A University of Colorado Boulder journalism professor offers ten tips about how not to be tricked by fake news and be a more informed news consumer.

A University of Denver student group criticizes the institution for choosing three white males as finalists for the dean position at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies.

A proponent of Amendment 73 explains how it differs from school funding measures rejected by Colorado voters in recent years.

The ACLU wants changes at Colorado State University after two Native American brothers were racially profiled.

Free speech on college campuses is a hot-button issue in higher education.

The Daniels College of Business dean’s announcement came just over two weeks after reports of mistreatment involving fourteen professors.

They came out in favor of robust support of free speech.

Even when Denver Public Schools classrooms are super-heated, teachers can’t adjust them. Here’s why.

Denver is widely regarded to be among the more liberal major cities in the United States. But it’s also home to Colorado Christian University, which the research website Niche just ranked the seventh-most-conservative American college — and it’s among the fastest growing, too.

William Norris has filed a lawsuit against the University of Colorado Boulder, where he was a student and member of the Air Force ROTC program before being suspended in the wake of sexual assault allegations that were later rejected by a jury. He claims that CU Boulder administrators violated Title IX and his right to due process, among other things, by way of what his legal team calls “a profoundly flawed and intentionally biased sexual misconduct investigation.”

Dr. Christina Boucher’s ogling lawsuit against Colorado State University was superpowered by the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund, a project launched in the wake of sexual-harassment horror stories linked to disgraced mogul Harvey Weinstein and others. But despite the increased attention being paid to complaints like hers across the country, a jury has ruled against her, finding that CSU’s actions didn’t qualify as improper retaliation.

Tay Anderson was the youngest person to ever run for Denver’s Board of Education. This week, he announced he’s running again, this time for its at-large seat.

On August 10, an organization called FASTER Colorado is sponsoring a three-day class to instruct teachers, administrators and other school personnel interested in carrying a gun on the job how to stop an active shooter. The idea of armed teachers in classrooms remains controversial, but FASTER Colorado executive director Laura Carno sees the concept as common sense, pure and simple.

In a result that’s sure to stir frustration and confusion among alumni from the University of Denver, the University of Colorado Boulder and plenty of other institutions across the state, a new analysis names Colorado State University the best four-year college in Colorado.

Colorado State University has failed to short-circuit Dr. Christina Boucher’s ogling lawsuit over her time at the school. CSU’s motion to toss the complaint has been denied, removing the last major obstacle prior to the scheduled August 20 start of a trial in a case that is supported by the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund but actually predated the 2017 sexual harassment horror stories that helped inspire the #MeToo movement.

Boasberg announced Tuesday he’s leaving his post at after an unusually long tenure – nearly ten years at the helm of Denver Public Schools, a 92,600-student urban district nationally known for its innovative approaches to school improvement.

Coloradans could see their first constitutional ballot initiative during the November general elections since voters approved the “Raise the Bar” amendment in 2016, which placed significant barriers to amending the state constitution.

Educators report that undocumented students have expressed increased fear in response to family separations on the border.

In a lawsuit scheduled to be heard at trial in August, former Colorado State University computer-science professor Dr. Christina Boucher claims that CSU reacted to her reports of a male colleague’s ogling by retaliating against her.

The big news about teens and marijuana in Colorado is that there isn’t big news. Just-issued federal government statistics show that the rate of cannabis use among high school students in the state is slightly less than the national average and below the percentage who smoked pot before Colorado voters approved legal consumption for adults more than five years ago.

Established in 2014, RiseUp is one of twenty Alternative Education Campuses — schools that accommodate at-risk populations — in the DPS system. The charter school specializes in teaching students who have either dropped out of school or are at risk of dropping out, or have a criminal background or a history of child abuse or neglect, among other criteria.