Knoxville News Sentinel’s Humphrey on the Hill has posted that Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam may seek a waiver for the state from meeting federal No Child Left Behind requirements. Governor Haslam acknowledged a “very real possibility” that many Tennessee schools will not meet NCLB requirements in the upcoming school year. It is not yet clear whether Governor Haslam is…
Note: This post is part of a series of posts highlighting the challenges that rural communities face in improving public education. This series precedes SCORE’s Southeast Regional Rural Education Summit on July 19-20. An issue in education reform and in my world of workforce development is the fact that young people do not possess…
I’m sitting at a table in a chair designed for bodies much smaller than mine, going through the motions of giving a diagnostic reading assessment to a boy whose face is still wet from tears of homesickness. I point to a list of ten words and say, “Can you try reading these for me?”…
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…
I have always been interested in salary reform for educators. I was once a very good teacher; creating interesting lessons, differentiating my instruction, and stretching the abilities of my students. I worked long hours, cared about every student, and believed that it was my job to reach the student; not the students’ job to…