Teaching & Learning
The three Rs and more
Ask an Expert: Using technology to promote summer learning
Find out about some great online resources and apps that might just make your summer better than you imagined, with your kids occupied and still learning. Face it, they’ll probably be spending some time on-line, it may as well be useful.
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Ask an Expert: Reading and creativity over the summer
Already worried about how much knowledge your child could lose this summer? The long break doesn’t have to be all fun and games. There are lots of ways to keep their young brains fired up. Get some tips from the experts.
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TCAP reading results reveal anomalies
Read this story by EdNews Colorado reporter Nancy Mitchell to find out about Colorado’s reading gender gap, how a much-lauded Denver school took a TCAP nose dive and how a low-scoring rural school made a big jump.
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Find your school’s 2012 TCAP scores
The percentage of Colorado third-graders reading at grade level improved slightly this year, according to results released today by state officials. Across the state, 74 percent of of third-graders achieved at proficient or advanced levels on exams given in February this year, up from 73 percent last year.
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Ask an Expert: Keeping your child learning – with water – this summer
An expert from the Children’s Museum of Denver gives us lots of great ideas to keep kids occupied, moving around and learning this summer by using an easy-to-find ingredient: water. Other things you might need are corks, bowls, sprinklers, an old sheet, a hose. Time for fun!
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