Year: 2018

The State Collaborative on Reforming Education (SCORE) recently convened the Future Ready Summit: Helping Students Discover Successful Routes To College, Career & Opportunity. Participants from across the state and country explored how Tennessee can adopt innovative practices and use policy levers to ensure that our students are prepared for success in the jobs of their choice. Dr. Tunisha Hobson, a Tennessee educator, shares her three key takeaways from her day at the summit.

The statewide average ACT composite score of 20.2 is the highest ever for Tennessee students, up from 20.1 in 2017. Here are other notable indicators from these ACT results.

Over the last several months, the State Collaborative on Reforming Education (SCORE) has worked with K-12, industry, and higher education leaders to identify ways Tennessee can ensure that when students walk across the stage at high school graduation, they have a plan and can succeed in whatever route they choose in college and career.

The steps announced today to improve the 2018-19 administration of TNReady have rightly prioritized the needs of students and the feedback of teachers.

Incoming Hume-Fogg Magnet High freshmen walked single file into the school library for the purpose of sitting and talking to each other like adults should. For the past year, school librarian Amanda Smithfield has organized monthly roundtable discussions with students of different political stripes to talk about tough issues of the day over pizza. On Wednesday, the students at…