Education - The Denver Post Colorado's third-graders hover at 70 percent mark in reading proficiency

Education - The Denver Post

Colorado's third-graders hover at 70 percent mark in reading proficiency05/05/2010After 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 3305/04/2010 - 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 2705/04/2010 - 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.