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I’m not running for re-election

After much heart-wrenching deliberation, I have decided not to run for a second term as the southwest representative on the Denver Board of Education. I believe that high-stakes standardized testing is destroying public education today. Simultaneously, giant dollars...

The truth about “failing schools”

This image pretty much speaks for itself: This infographic measures national performance on the 2009 Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA), which is a randomly-sampled exam taken by many of the countries of the world. What this says is that kids who...