It’s been a few days since our last ASD coverage update, and we’ve had a few notable news events on the ground in Memphis and in Nashville. Here’s a summary of the most recent news stories and what they mean for the…
The ASD selected 9 new schools to be taken over this past week in Memphis. From the commercial appeal, those schools include: Wooddale Middle, Raleigh-Egypt High and South Side Middle, which have already been assigned to charter schools. Nine others — Florida-Kansas…
Memphis and Shelby County typically gets knocked pretty hard in measures of human capital. However, the picture might not necessarily be so bleak. Take a look at the following census data maps pulled from this article in the Atlantic titled…
When we compare schools across the country, we typically do so using elementary and middle school scores such as NAEP. But High School is where the magic happens. High school is the place where it all comes together, where students…
