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Burris, Carol; Pfleger, Ryan – Network for Public Education, 2020
Charter schools began in the 1990s as an experimental alternative to public schools. Today they are a multi-billion dollar sector composed of both nonprofit and for-profit corporations that embrace the philosophy of the marketplace. Supporters of charters see school failure as a natural feature of the model. They argue that schools do not fail at…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Closing, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education
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Stephanie Reitzig – History Teacher, 2017
Ralph Carr had neither expected, nor wanted, to be governor. Carr was at the midpoint of his second term as governor when the Japanese struck Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Public sentiment and the popular press overwhelmingly supported the incarceration of Japanese Americans. On February 18, 1942, for example, one Colorado newspaper editor…
Descriptors: Japanese Americans, War, World History, United States History
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Graber, E. E. – Rural Sociology, 1974
In Colorado people are moving out of the Denver suburbs and into an old mountain town which may be indicative of a national trend. (JC)
Descriptors: Community Change, Community Characteristics, Educational Background, Migration Patterns