Category: What We Are Reading

What We Are Read­ing Ten­nessee Com­mis­sion­er Schwinn Dis­cuss­es Account­abil­i­ty in School Turn­around Chalk­beat Are Ten­nessee schools plac­ing weak­er teach­ers in non-test­ed … Con­tin­ue read­ing Com­mis­sion­er Schwinn on school turn­around, prin­ci­pal qual­i­ty and the cult of home­work

What We Are Read­ing The U.S. Teach­ing Pop­u­la­tion Is Get­ting Big­ger, and More Female The Atlantic L.A.’s Teach­ers Got What They … Con­tin­ue read­ing L.A.‘s teach­ers got what they want­ed, school vouch­ers and a plan to increase col­lege grad­u­a­tion rates

What We Are Read­ing Ten­nessee The Ten­nessean released a com­pre­hen­sive series of arti­cles exam­in­ing the chal­lenges fac­ing Ten­nessee grads in … Con­tin­ue read­ing Gov­er­nor Haslam’s Edu­ca­tion Lega­cy, the Mobil­i­ty and Reten­tion of Black Teach­ers and DACA Stu­dents Con­tin­ue to Advo­cate

What We Are Lis­ten­ing To Hard Words: Why aren’t kids being taught to read? APM Reports As they lose cus­tomers, … Con­tin­ue read­ing Why kids aren’t being taught to read and how uni­ver­si­ties are respond­ing to a decline in cus­tomers

What We Are Read­ing Ten­nessee Ten­nessee stu­dents improve slight­ly on ACT in a year when nation­al scores back­slide Chalk­beat Ten­nessee hits … Con­tin­ue read­ing Ten­nessee hits high­est grad­u­a­tion rate for sec­ond year in a row and why mil­lions of teens can’t fin­ish their home­work

Stu­dent assess­ments like TNReady are essen­tial The Ten­nessean Ten­nesseans large­ly sup­port strength­en­ing ear­ly edu­ca­tion, poll shows The Ten­nessean Rethink­ing What Gift­ed … Con­tin­ue read­ing Improv­ing schools, why stu­dent assess­ments are essen­tial and books for His­pan­ic Her­itage Mon­th and beyond

Mis­pro­nounc­ing Stu­dents’ Names: A Slight That Can Cut Deep Edu­ca­tion Week Most Peo­ple Wouldn’t Want Their Child to Become a Teacher, Poll Finds … Con­tin­ue read­ing Most peo­ple wouldn’t want their child to become a teacher, how to improve schools and more

Ten­nessee In his final months as Ten­nessee gov­er­nor, Haslam reflects on his edu­ca­tion lega­cy Chalk­beat Ear­ly vot­ing begins Fri­day in Ten­nessee. … Con­tin­ue read­ing Haslam reflects on his edu­ca­tion lega­cy and Trump signs first major edu­ca­tion pol­i­cy bill of his pres­i­den­cy

Ten­nessee TNReady doesn’t count, but here’s what you can still learn about your school Com­mer­cial Appeal What Do Statewide Can­di­dates … Con­tin­ue read­ing TNReady and What Statewide Can­di­dates Have to Say on Edu­ca­tion