(Nashville) – The Expect More, Achieve More Coalition announced today that more than 300 organizations in Tennessee have now joined as coalition members. The coalition is a statewide alliance of business, community, and education organizations supporting high academic standards in public education. The Coalition’s goal is to build statewide and local engagement, support, and awareness…
On October 28, Senator Bill Frist, Chairman of SCORE, will host the third annual SCORE Prize event at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center in Nashville. Policy-makers, teachers, students, and community members will gather to recognize the outstanding work by public schools and districts in Tennessee to increase student achievement.
Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is featured in a new video that explains the importance of Tennessee’s Common Core State Standards. Frist, founder and chairman of the State Collaborative on Reforming Education (SCORE), says in the two-minute video that higher standards in school provide a foundation for success throughout life. “Quite simply, the…
74. That was the grade on my first college essay. I expected high standards from my Humanities professor (a.k.a., the infamous philosophy professor with a PhD from Harvard), but I graduated high school with all A’s in my English classes, including two AP subjects! I was mortified.
(Nashville) – The State Collaborative on Reforming Education (SCORE) today announced the 12 finalists for the third annual SCORE Prize. The prize recognizes the Tennessee elementary, middle, and high schools and school district that have most dramatically improved student achievement. The 2013 SCORE Prize finalists are: Elementary McPheeter’s Bend Elementary, Hawkins County Schools. Mt. Carmel…