The Tennessee Department of Education (TDOE) recently completed a new plan for continuing the progress made as the fastest-improving state for academic achievement. When Congress replaced the No Child Left Behind law with the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) last year, states were given both more flexibility and responsibility for innovative approaches to academic improvement….
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…
In Tennessee, students of color make up 35 percent of the public school population, yet just 15 percent of teachers in the state identify as people of color. SCORE’s 2015-16 State of Education in Tennessee report identified diversifying the teaching population as one of the annual priorities for the state. Improving the racial and ethnic…
Over recent months, the Policy and Research team at SCORE has explored connections between health and education outcomes for students in Tennessee. One of the challenges associated with this work is defining what it means to be a healthy student. Although we cannot ignore the importance of physical and mental health indicators such as physical…
Earlier this month, the Office of Research and Education Accountability (OERA) released a set of infographics on physical education and physical activity in Tennessee public schools. State law currently requires 90 minutes of physical activity per week for students in seventh through twelfthgrade. For the 2013-14 school year, the latest year that data are available, 85…