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Download full textPadgette, Heather Clapp – Colorado Children's Campaign, 2009
The need to complete a successful high school education has never been more important for an individual's future success. But, across the nation, high schools are not living up to their promise. U.S. high school graduation rates have remained virtually the same for the last 30 years--about 30 percent of students fail to graduate from high school…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Minority Group Students, White Students, Graduation
Direct linkSmrekar, Claire E., Ed.; Goldring, Ellen B., Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2009
"From the Courtroom to the Classroom" examines recent developments pertaining to school desegregation in the United States. As the editors note, it comes at a time marked by a "general downplaying of race and ethnicity as criteria for the allocation of public resources, as well as a weakening of the political forces that support…
Descriptors: Busing, Race, Public Schools, Neighborhood Schools
Horn, Catherine L.; Kurlaender, Michal – Civil Rights Project at Harvard University, 2006
This report describes the academic achievement trends of students in Denver's elementary schools from 1994 to 2000. It begins with a brief introduction to the original 1973 Keyes decision and the path to its conclusion in 1995. It then presents a chronology of the standardized measures of academic achievement used by the Denver Public Schools and…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Elementary Schools, Academic Achievement, Educational Trends
Freppel, Laura – 2002
This handbook provides an overview of federal and Colorado special education laws and special education issues that affect charter schools. An introduction reviews the history of charter schools and both the school choice movement and special education in Colorado. The first major section provides a history of special education statutory and case…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Compliance (Legal), Court Litigation, Disabilities
Johnson, Charlie H., Jr. – 1981
A study of historical background of the frontier and rural schools in Colorado describes education in the United State in general and the development of the educational process and school facilities during five phases of Colorado's economic and political development. "The Nation" discusses philosophies generally held during the middle…
Descriptors: Centralization, Consolidated Schools, Educational History, Educational Legislation
