Coming home tonight and checking my email, I was very surprised to see that Governing.com, one of my favorite public policy websites, is going to be running a year long series on education reform in Memphis! The first part in this…
Over the past several years, Governor Haslam has been one of the staunchest proponents of higher standards in Tennessee, specifically the Common Core State Standards. But that support seemed to falter this past Wednesday when the Tennessean reported that Governor…
This past week the Tennessee Consortium on Research, Evaluation and Development at Vanderbilt released the results of their 2014 First to the Top Survey of Tennessee Public School Teachers. Notably, their survey data revealed declining support among teachers for the…
It’s always nice to be recognized. Teach to Lead, an organization partnering with the US Department of Education to highlight teacher leadership, heard about our site and did a feature piece on us. Here’s an excerpt: I started a teacher…
This is part 1 of a series on how we use value-added data in Tennessee and across the nation. The entire series can be found below: Part 2: how value added data impacts teachers in the classroom Part 3: how…
By Tamera Malone Teaching is one of the best and most rewarding professions a person could choose to have. This important work that we do as educators can be demanding and at times may take precedence over everything else we…
At the beginning of September we ran a piece titled “making the grade: 2014 Memphis Charter High School Performance.” In this piece we examined absolute proficiency levels as an effort to identify which charters are doing well, which are worth…
On Wednesday, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and his team wrapped up their trip through the American south in Memphis, Tennessee to see more of the amazing work being done by students, teachers and school leaders throughout the city. I won’t…
Policy Implications to “Just the Facts: A Longitudinal Analysis of ASD and SCS’s iZone” Primary Policy Implications Race to the Top Progress In yesterday’s piece I examined the data for Shelby County School’s iZone and compared it to achievement results…
By Ezra Howard In my last piece I conducted a longitudinal analysis of the TCAP results of the state-run Achievement School District (ASD). This study was unique in several ways. For one, to my knowledge it is the only longitudinal…
