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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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Community-Based College Success Programs: A PLAYBOOK FOR DATA-DRIVEN STUDENT SUPPORT
August 25, 2021
The economic health of a community depends in large part on the skills of its workforce. In the 21st century, most jobs require that candidates have earned a college degree or career credential. Increasingly, communities that are eager to build a stronger economic base begin to explore how to increase the percentage of workers who have completed education beyond high school.
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Higher Ed By The Numbers: The Tennessee Postsecondary Data Book
June 8, 2021
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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Recommendations for Increasing Postsecondary Completion and Student Success in Tennessee
April 6, 2021
Tennessee has been a leader in education policy innovation and implementation for more than a decade in a quest to give more Tennesseans access to the educational and economic opportunities necessary to enjoy choice-filled lives. Tennessee can build on its promising policy foundation by tackling the big challenges that remain: eliminating inequity in postsecondary opportunity, helping all students attain their credentials or degrees, and setting more Tennesseans on a path to economic mobility.
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2021 State of Education in Tennessee
December 6, 2020
In 2020, our nation navigated a disruptive public health crisis and a summer of protests that increased awareness of longstanding, systemic racial, economic, and justice inequities. These crises overlapped just as Tennessee educators and students were going back to school, virtually or in person. The opening months of the COVID-19 pandemic demanded ingenuity from educators as they stood up virtual learning practically overnight, responsiveness from leaders as they navigated an evolving public health crisis, and collaboration from communities as they worked to fill in resource gaps for students. The efforts by educators and schools were wide-ranging, nimble, and necessary. The scale of need revealed by the pandemic, however, raises questions and adds urgency to efforts to address the quality of education for all students both before and after the pandemic.
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The Importance of Postsecondary Completion: Completion and Action
November 12, 2020
Students not only need to be able to access and afford higher education, but it is also important to ensure that students are able to complete their degrees in a reasonable amount of time. Students who do not complete their degrees on-time are more likely to accumulate student loan debt and are not able to realize the earnings benefits that come with a postsecondary degree
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SCORE’S Education Primer
July 1, 2020
SCORE’s Education Primer: A Candidate’s Guide For Improving Education In Tennessee emphasizes the role of policymakers in setting the stage for continued student success. Policymakers lay the groundwork for K-12 and postsecondary leaders to push forward with a clear focus on student success. We hope the information in this guide spurs greater curiosity about the challenges and deeper consideration of the supports the education system must provide to help students succeed.
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2020 State of Education In Tennessee
December 6, 2019
Across the previous decade, Tennessee posted outsize progress in student achievement and equity of opportunity. Student-focused policies that raise expectations, emphasize student outcomes, and encourage innovative and research-based practices have enabled educators and schools to help more students achieve at higher levels. These policies form the foundation for student growth and success beginning in kindergarten through postsecondary completion and ensure that Tennessee’s progress is widespread and systemic, not just limited to a few bright spots.
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Advising Students Toward Opportunity
December 3, 2019
In order for students to succeed in college, career, and life, they need the opportunity and resources to obtain a postsecondary credential. Tennessee’s ambitious attainment goal recognizes that by 2025 at least 55 percent of jobs in the state will require some form of postsecondary training. Tennessee still has a long way to go in meeting this goal, as only 42.7 percent of residents currently have a degree or high-quality certificate.1 For Tennessee to increase this percentage, students need to be prepared and have equitable access to opportunities that lead to success and enable economic independence. A key support in postsecondary success is for students to receive high-quality advising in high school to begin navigating college and career opportunities.
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2018-19 State of Education in Tennessee
December 6, 2018
For the past decade, Tennessee has been among the fastest-improving states in the nation in K-12 education. Student achievement made substantial jumps forward in multiple subjects and grade levels. The state also is making progress on the five Excellence for All priorities set in 2017 by SCORE in collaboration with many educators, policymakers, and leaders of communities, business, and philanthropy. Improvements include increased focus and first steps to help more students make a successful transition from high school to college or career training, improvements in third-grade reading on statewide assessments, new initiatives to improve school leadership, and accountability ratings for schools that provide the deepest look to date at whether achievement gaps are closing for students who are traditionally underserved.
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