The State Collaborative on Reforming Education (SCORE) today released a report outlining specific recommendations to improve public education in rural communities in the South. The recommendations in Transforming the Rural South: A Roadmap to Improving Rural Education are based on research, best practices, and voices from rural communities across Tennessee and throughout the Southeast. The report, released…
SCORE, along with the Ayers Foundation, Niswonger Foundation, Rural School and Community Trust, and Tennessee School Boards Association, kicked off the Southeast Regional Rural Education Summit this past Tuesday. 500 attendees, 14 breakout sessions, and 786 tweets using #ruralsummit later, the Summit concluded. As one attendee remarked, “Excellent; great discussion; now it’s time to get…
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…
The July/August issue of The Atlantic magazine featured a fascinating article on German scientist and education analyst Andreas Schleicher (“The World’s Schoolmaster”). Schleicher was a leader in creating the PISA assessment, a survey given every three years to a sample of 15-year-olds in every country in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). First…