Parker Baxter
@Parker_Baxter
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Scholar in residence & director of the Center for Education Policy Analysis at the CU Denver School of Public Affairs. Every child deserves a quality education.
http://edsystemsleadership.org
Joined July 2011
Our study finds that Black and Latino students in Denver received the equivalent of at least 18 months of additional schooling in literacy and math compared to their matched peers in surrounding districts. English Learners also gained 18 months in math.
New research using student level data from my colleagues and I @CUDenverSPA provides rigorous, empirical evidence that Denver’s strategy improved student learning systemwide, including for students the district has historically failed to serve. #edpolicy
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@marcportermagee If you are trying to win back someone's trust, simply telling them to trust you is probably not the best strategy.
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Today @CUDenverSPA 8:45am MT Declining enrollment in Colorado is real. See the districts that have lost 1K students or more since 2019 Two of three largest districts have declined almost 10% since 2019, 8k+ in @JeffcoSchoolsCo and 5K+ in @dcsdk12 #edcolo
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Change happens: "a picture of the eleven abandoned old country school buildings and the new central building in a Colorado common school district. The picture itself tells an interesting story of the practical development of the rural educational system of the State of #EdColo"
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Enrollment in school systems in Colorado and across the country is declining, forcing difficult choices, including cutting staff and programs, as well as closing under-enrolled schools. Today @CUDenverSPA 8:45amMT
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RT @Parker_Baxter: @kyle_a_harris @paolozialcita As painful as it is to close a school, we have to face the reality that change requires ha…
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RT @Chalkbeat: Jefferson Jr./Sr. High School is projected to have fewer than 500 students enrolled in the next four years.
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RT @Parker_Baxter: "No school can function efficiently when enrollment is less than ten pupils Many communities however hesitate to make th…
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@DianeRavitch "Among districts...variation in growth in average scores from third to eighth grade is wide...Many low-income school districts have relatively high measures of growth and many affluent districts have relatively low growth."
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@DianeRavitch How Test Optional Policies in College Admissions Disproportionately Harm High Achieving Applicants from Disadvantaged Backgrounds, by Bruce Sacerdote, Douglas O. Staiger, & Michele Tine in
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RT @marcportermagee: How did states do on the 2024 #NAEP when adjusting for demographics? Urban Institute did the calculations (link below…
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RT @Parker_Baxter: Education systems are experiencing massive change. The Education Systems Leadership & Policy Institute is a 5-day gradua…
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RT @Dale_Chu: “I don’t know how many different ways you can say these results are bad, but they’re bad. I don’t think this is the canary in…
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NAEP test results: Colorado’s scores are mostly stable, as gap between low and high performers widens. Among Colorado fourth graders, 35% tested below basic in reading in 2024, a higher percentage than anytime in the last two decades.
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"Lower-performing fourth and eighth graders posted the worst reading scores in over 30 years. In eighth grade math, the gap between the highest- and lowest-performing students was the widest in the test’s history."
The National Assessment for Educational Progress results show a dispiriting and growing gap between students who are academic stand-outs and those who struggle. Reading scores also fell. But fourth grade math was a bright spot.
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RT @meltzere: Very important story for understanding what this will look like. A bunch of people are arrested in a raid on a nightclub. Fed…
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"To me the burden of proof is not on the people who want to change the system, the burden of proof is on the people who want to keep it the same." -@SenatorBennet
"If you listen to the song, James Brown is trying to say a hard thing out loud in a way that makes it acceptable. I've been working on charters for a long time and a year ago it didn't seem like we were winning the messaging debate." -50CAN President @Dyrnwyn to @CharterFolk Full interview link in the replies. #SayItLoud
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Education systems are experiencing massive change. The Education Systems Leadership & Policy Institute is a 5-day graduate seminar @CUDenverSPA in Denver, CO designed for current and aspiring leaders engaged in systems transformation and redesign. July 14 - 18, 2025 Apply now.
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RT @Parker_Baxter: Our study finds that Black and Latino students in Denver received the equivalent of at least 18 months of additional sch…
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