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2024 Higher Ed By The Numbers
April 19, 2024
SCORE is committed to student success from kindergarten through career. This report provides a snapshot of data across postsecondary preparation, persistence, and success as a means of highlighting key postsecondary metrics and identifying areas of improvement for better supporting students through the Tennessee public education system. Data and data insights specific to each institution and postsecondary sector are provided in the pages that follow. Due to small sample sizes in some cases, there may be fluctuations in year-over-year comparisons.
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2024 State of Education in Tennessee: Building A Brighter Future
December 5, 2023
Tennessee is a leader in piloting and scaling efforts to strengthen student success. Foundational strategies have been grounded in high expectations for educators, schools, and students – from the time students enter the classroom to the time they receive a degree or credential. This work is yielding demonstrated results for students. However, while progress has been made, it is clear more needs to be done. Tennessee’s next challenge is to expand its vision for education so that each student not only has the opportunity to succeed in school but also has the opportunity to be prepared for a career that enables economic independence.
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Using Data And Driving Innovation For The Future Of Work
November 7, 2023
All Tennessee students should earn degrees and credentials that prepare them for careers that enable economic independence. From K-12 to postsecondary to workforce development, more can be done to better prepare students for this goal, and this can only be done by looking at data across systems and using that information to drive innovation.
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Building A Vision For Early Postsecondary Opportunities
May 22, 2023
Early postsecondary opportunities (EPSOs) are an important part of Tennessee’s strategy to ensure high school students are prepared to enroll, persist, and find success in postsecondary education, career, and life. Research consistently shows that earning a degree or credential is an important step toward achieving high-wage employment and economic independence. Tennesseans who complete postsecondary education earn, on average, one and a half times more than individuals with only a high school diploma.
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2023 State of Education in Tennessee
December 6, 2022
When it comes to taking big steps to improve outcomes for students, Tennessee leads. For more than a decade, the state has taken bold actions and demonstrated great success in improving education. This has led to students having more opportunities for their future, businesses having a more skilled workforce, and, ultimately, more Tennesseans experiencing economic independence statewide.
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Clarksville-Montgomery County School System, Case Study
August 16, 2022
The Clarksville-Montgomery County School System (CMCSS) started an Early Technical College (ETC) at the Clarksville campus of TCAT-Dickson four years ago. At the time, the TCAT campus was primarily serving adult learners and its facilities were underutilized during a large portion of the day. The ETC provides students with personalized, hands-on learning opportunities that can lead to the attainment of both college credit and a high school diploma, technical and professional skill development, and industry certifications.
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Hamilton County Schools, Case Study
August 16, 2022
In partnership with Chattanooga State Community College, Hamilton County Schools (HCS) began developing a microcollege last school year as part of their effort to ensure equitable learning opportunities for all students. Previously, the district’s equity audits revealed that students’ access to early postsecondary opportunities (EPSOs) varied greatly across high schools.
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Alcoa City Schools, Case Study
August 16, 2022
Alcoa City Schools set a goal of continuing to increase their Ready Graduate rate from 78 percent to 80 percent and began to consider how they could use the High School Innovation Grant to make progress in this area. They looked at their data to ask where they had weak spots in their subgroups around their Career and Technical Education (CTE) pathways and found there was a gap in health sciences.
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Jackson-Madison County School System, Case Study
August 16, 2022
Jackson-Madison County School System (JMCSS) envisioned a secondary school landscape in their district where each of its seven high schools and the district Workforce Development Center would house at least one of twelve Innovation Impact Institutes focused on a different high-demand occupation that any student in the district could access as they identify career fields of interest to them.
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Tennessee Education Primer
June 9, 2022
Tennesseans began taking bold steps to transform public education to better prepare students for success in 2007. Tennessee must maintain that commitment to innovation and continue to put student needs first in order to prepare every student for success from the day they start school to the day they start a career.
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2022 State of Education in Tennessee
December 6, 2021
Through 2020 and 2021, Tennessee students, families, and educators have faced a public health crisis that has impacted our education system from top to bottom. Educators have provided instruction to students in person, in a hybrid format, and virtually – with limited resources and training at their disposal when the pandemic began. Administrators have faced staffing and scheduling challenges as the coronavirus pandemic spread statewide, requiring many students and educators to quarantine to recover from or to reduce transmission of the disease and miss valuable classroom time as a result. Whether they are in K-12 or postsecondary settings, students have experienced a dramatic shift in their daily lives.
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Funding For Learning: An Analysis Of K-12 Education Finance In Tennessee
October 21, 2021
Does Tennessee spend enough to educate children? Two thirds of voters and about seven out of ten parents in Tennessee think the state’s public schools do not receive enough funding, according to a September 2021 poll commissioned by the State Collaborative on Reforming Education (SCORE). This view is widely held despite state budgeting practices under three governors that since 2010 increased the state appropriations for K-12 education by 20 percent when adjusted for inflation.
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