COLORADO
- Spending by ed groups ramps up in tight legislative races. EdNews Colorado
- Summer’s officially over for Denver Public Schools students. Denver Post, Channel 4
- How to recognize if your child is being bullied. 9News
- Education group says Dougco school board’s ballot proposal is illegal. Denver Post
- Dougco’s Chaparral High School mourns loss of assistant principal. Our Colorado News
- Adams 12 to open new STEM school at old Niver Creek facility. Denver Post’s Your Hub
- Superintendent search focus of Poudre School District board meeting. Fort Collins Coloradoan
- Low numbers of whooping cough vaccinations causes concern at some Fort Collins schools. Fort Collins Coloradoan
- First day of school for tech-savvy Thompson high school students. Loveland Reporter-Herald
- Falcon 49 teacher a finalist for prestigious national math and science award. Colorado Springs Gazette
- Pueblo school board to hear CU-Denver report on consultants Global Partnership Schools. Pueblo Chieftain
- Online learning alternative opens shop in Trinidad. Trinidad Times
- New principal raising the bar at Montezuma-Cortez High School. Cortez Journal
- Teachers agree on innovative methods. Cortez Journal
- Thousands of CU-Boulder students started fall semester Monday. Boulder Daily Camera
- Obama to discuss cost of education during today’s visit at CSU. Fort Collins Coloradoan
NATIONAL
- Coverage of education-related issues at the Republican National Convention: Education Week, including speculation about Romney’s pick for education secretary, and The Hechinger Report, including what would happen to K-12 under Romney vs. Obama
- Schools open doors to new e-learning rules, a special series of stories about online education. Education Week (signup or purchase required for most articles)
- Study examines charters’ drain on private schools. Education Week
- Online university for all balances big goals and expensive realities. NPR
- Teen pot use linked to later declines in IQ. Associated Press via Durango Herald
OPINION
- Parent blog: An Aurora dad’s first-day anxiety. Marques Ivey missed his children’s first day of school for the first time in seven years. He’s relieved to learn – via technology – they quickly made friends. EdNews Colorado
- Editorial: Another reason Colorado must require vaccines. Denver Post
- Column: Triumph of a tough writing teacher. Jay Matthews in Washington Post
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.