Tagged: Educator Effectiveness

At 2 p.m., it's crunchtime for students who write for The Harbinger Online, the award-winning, student news site at Shawnee Mission East High just outside Kansas City, Kan. They've been investigating an initiative to develop common curriculum and test guidelines for states.

The young reporters have pored over countless documents about the Common Core State Standards and talked to Kansas state legislators who pushed for their adoption, trying to understand why they're necessary.

Education officials from across the U.S. are in Denver this week.  They are taking on the task of figuring out how to make sure more students graduate from college ready for the workforce.

The Colorado Board of Education is receiving draft rules for a new statewide educator effectiveness evaluation system. 

The push to come up with a means of evaluating teachers and administrators was mandated in 2010 by Senate Bill 10-191.