In two weeks, 100 teachers from throughout Middle Tennessee will come together to identify and discuss major issues affecting the high school graduation rates in their schools. As part of the national American Graduate: Let’s Make it Happen initiative, Nashville Public Television, in partnership with SCORE and Alignment Nashville, is convening a teacher town tall…
There’s a saying that education is inherently local. Last week, I realized that instituting a culture change to improve education is inherently local as well. This past week, I attended a community partners meeting that Nashville Public Television was holding as part of a national initiative to improve high school graduation rates. We spent the…
It took a group of high school students to teach me the difference between high standards and high expectations. A couple of months ago, I took a trip to Mt. Juliet High School in Wilson County to document the policies and practices their school had put in place that could explain the school’s drastic improvement…
When people ask me where I’m from, I say Memphis. Being a Memphian has always been my primary identity, before being a Tennessean or a resident of Shelby County. Growing up in Memphis, we’re acutely aware of just how different we are from the rest of the state. We’re the largest city, we prefer blues…
In three weeks, education experts, including Former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, the U.S. Department of Education’s John White, and Rural Trust Executive Director Doris Williams, will be speaking to educators, administrators, policymakers, and other stakeholders from throughout Tennessee and as far away as North Dakota at SCORE’s Southeast Regional Rural Education Summit. The…