Building, Experimenting, Inventing: 3 Innovative Science-in-Action Programs in Tennessee

When I heard the great news about Tennessee science students from the Nation’s Report Card, I wondered, “What helped Tennessee achieve this incredible growth?” Commissioner McQueen pointed to Tennessee’s hands-on, science classrooms in her Classroom Chronicles post on the NAEP science growth: “When I first dug into our results, my mind immediately went to classrooms…

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Federal Educator Preparation Regulations and Recommendations for Tennessee

SCORE recently released a report on teacher preparation in Tennessee in which we highlighted the need to better prepare early-career teachers for the classroom. Fittingly, that same week, the US Department of Education (USDOE) released long-awaited regulations for teacher preparation programs. These final regulations reflect extensive public feedback gathered since USDOE released draft rules in…

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Three Words that Describe SCORE’s Visit to Satterfield Middle School

Caring and strategic. Those words usually don’t go together, but they both fit Troudale County’s Jim B. Satterfield Middle School. SCORE visited the school in October and observed both how the school’s vision and operation reflected their commitment to thoughtful planning and carefully recorded data, and also reflected effusive camaraderie and care. It was a…

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Historically Underserved Students Accelerate Tennessee’s Rise on NAEP Science Assessment

Last week, new results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as the Nation’s Report Card, showed Tennessee students doubling the average national growth in both fourth- and eighth-grade science, propelling Tennessee’s ranking into the top half of all states. Why is this so important? As a subject area, science is uniquely…

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