Honesty is the best policy, especially when we are talking about student achievement. In separate reports, Harvard University researchers and the nonprofit organization Achieve, have identified Tennessee as a national leader in erasing the gap between measures of student proficiency on statewide assessments and the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Eleven years ago, such…
When Governor Haslam said in his State of the State address that he wants Tennessee to lead the nation in public education, his challenge matched what SCORE heard from Tennesseans last summer. During a series of statewide conversations, Tennessee educators, parents, and business and community leaders in urban, suburban, and rural areas across the state…
This blog post originally appeared in the Data Quality Campaign’s blog, The Flashlight. “How will I know if my child is ready for college?” This is a question I heard a few weeks ago from a parent in a rural part of Tennessee. It is a question that I hear quite often when I…
Much of the education-reform community is buzzing about an opinion piece that appeared in yesterday’s New York Times. The piece, Is Algebra Necessary?, can be summed up in the first paragraph: A typical American school day finds some six million high school students and two million college freshmen struggling with algebra. In both high school…
A Tennessean editorial takes a look at SCORE’s teacher evaluation feedback report and how education leaders can use the recommendations to improve Tennessee’s teacher evaluation system. This editorial originally appeared in the 6/13/12 Tennessean. SCORE puts ball in educators’ court Kudos to Gov. Bill Haslam for getting the State Collaboration on Reforming Education (SCORE) to…