This morning, Governor Haslam and Tennessee Education Commissioner Kevin Huffman held a press conference to discuss statewide, preliminary results from this year’s TCAP test. The test measures student achievement in math, science, social studies, and reading. While specific data about school and school systems have yet to be released, the message from these initial…
Knoxville News Sentinel’s Humphrey on the Hill has posted that Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam may seek a waiver for the state from meeting federal No Child Left Behind requirements. Governor Haslam acknowledged a “very real possibility” that many Tennessee schools will not meet NCLB requirements in the upcoming school year. It is not yet clear whether Governor Haslam is…
Note: This post is part of a series of posts highlighting the challenges that rural communities face in improving public education. This series precedes SCORE’s Southeast Regional Rural Education Summit on July 19-20. An issue in education reform and in my world of workforce development is the fact that young people do not possess…
I’m sitting at a table in a chair designed for bodies much smaller than mine, going through the motions of giving a diagnostic reading assessment to a boy whose face is still wet from tears of homesickness. I point to a list of ten words and say, “Can you try reading these for me?”…