30 percent of Colorado 3rd-graders not reading at their level, CSAP finds
POSTED: 05/05/2010 01:00:00 AM MDT
UPDATED: 05/05/2010 08:51:45 AM MDT
Student Jaela Manzanares, 8, gets reading help from substitute teacher Colleen Rys in her third-grade class at Beach Court Elementary School in Denver. (Andy Cross | The Denver Post)
After a decade of testing, myriad school reforms and intense reading programs, 30 percent of Colorado's third-graders still are not reading at grade level.
Year after year, the number of proficient third-grade readers in Colorado stays mostly the same — hovering around the 70 percent mark — mirroring a trend occurring nationally.
On Tuesday, the state released unofficial and preliminary results of the Colorado Student Assessment Program third-grade reading test, showing 70 percent of the students proficient or advanced in reading, 3 points lower than in 2009.
Colorado tests its third-graders in reading weeks before any other test and delivers data to teachers early, hoping it can be used to help students
struggling with literacy — seen as the cornerstone of learning.The rest of the CSAP scores for third through 10th grades will be
30 percent of Colorado 3rd-graders not reading at their level, CSAP finds 20 05/05/2010After a decade of testing, myriad school reforms and intense reading programs, 30 percent of Colorado's third-graders still are not reading at grade level. 
3rd-grade CSAP scores show decline 34 05/04/2010 - Statewide scores on this year's assessment of third-grade reading skills declined to 2008 levels.
Stapleton charter loses out in bid for Obama speech 27 05/04/2010 - President Barack Obama today said he will give the commencement address at Kalamazoo Central High School, choosing the traditional Michigan high school over a charter school in Denver and a
McGlone Elementary in Montbello digs in on garden project that will feed minds, stomachs05/03/2010 - Forget May flowers. McGlone Elementary School kids are hoping April's showers bring a crop of carrots, or maybe potatoes. And they very well might — just not this year.
Partisan divide among U.S. Senate candidates in Colorado on illegal immigration05/03/2010 - Colorado's U.S. Senate candidates moved quickly to their partisan corners in the immigration debate, with the only doubts coming from critics questioning the ferocity of their various commitments.
