Sharing Data—and Conversation—with Teacher Prep Programs to Improve the...
Last week, Senator Frist wrote an important op-ed highlighting the need to improve all areas of the teacher pipeline (that is, pathway teachers take from choosing to become teachers to the classroom)....
View ArticleLocal Engagement via TN Chambers Could Restore High School Grads’ “Dashed...
It’s a bad habit: when we talk about preparing students for college and the workforce, we often forget about engaging the business community.While high school graduation rates in Tennessee have been...
View ArticleBringing the Best and Brightest Back to Our Rural Communities
As early as the second grade, I can remember the teacher asking my classmates and me what we wanted to be when we grew up. We had been studying space, so one of my friends said he would be an...
View ArticleThe Zip Code to Success
A student’s address should not determine the quality of his or her education. But often it does.As an undergraduate at Rhodes College in Memphis, I have become acutely aware of the unfortunate...
View ArticleTalking frankly about special education
As a student with a disability, the majority of my memories of elementary and high school are of teachers. They supported me, worked hard to figure out what I needed to succeed, and celebrated with me...
View ArticleStakeholder data use is dependent on stakeholder capacity to access and use data
Those who remember the View-Master from childhood will recall the dazzling images they cast before the user’s eyes. While the image the View-Master presents is vivid and entertaining, it lacks the...
View ArticleWATCH LIVE: 2012-13 State of Education in Tennessee Report Release
On Tuesday, February 5 at 11 AM Central, please join us online as former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, SCORE’s Founder and Chairman, presents the 2012-13 Report and moderates a panel of...
View ArticleRedefining the School District in Tennessee
Over the past few years, Tennessee has taken important steps to improve public education. With a focus on higher standards, great teaching, turning around low performing schools, and using data in new...
View ArticleThe Big Experiment is Over (Almost)
A year’s worth of planning, writing, and policy changes. Four year’s worth of implementation, advocacy and radical overhauls. Fiscal year 2014, which begins July 1, 2013, is the final year...
View ArticleThe Best Day of My Professional Life
November 7 was maybe the best day of my professional life, and I started not to write about it. I was going to play it cool, I wasn’t going to “geek out”, and I certainly wasn’t going to expend my own...
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