
2025 State of Education in Tennessee: Casting a Vision for Student Success
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Building a Vision of Opportunity for All Tennesseans: Measuring Credential and Degree Outcomes
June 20, 2024
Economic development in Tennessee has increased career opportunities, but we need to ensure students are earning degrees and credentials that prepare them for those jobs and enable them to benefit from this economic opportunity. This report offers a vision for measuring what success looks like for Tennessee students entering the workforce.
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Strategic School Staffing: Tennessee’s Opportunity To Sustain And Elevate Great Teaching
May 8, 2024
Access to highly effective teachers is essential for student achievement. However, growing evidence suggests students have unreliable and inequitable access to effective educators, with many school districts reporting high levels of teacher vacancies. This series examines the challenges facing Tennessee’s educator labor market and highlights innovative practices to strengthen it.
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Rural District Leader Perceptions Of The Educator Labor Market
April 29, 2024
Access to highly effective teachers is essential for student achievement. However, growing evidence suggests students have unreliable and inequitable access to effective educators, with many school districts reporting high levels of teacher vacancies. This paper offers perspectives on the topic from rural district leaders across Tennessee.
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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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Understanding The Educator Labor Market: A Look At Tennessee’s Data
February 26, 2024
Access to highly effective teachers is essential for student achievement. However, growing evidence suggests students have unreliable and inequitable access to effective educators, with many school districts reporting high levels of teacher vacancies. SCORE partnered with 15 school districts and the Tennessee Education Research Alliance (TERA) to understand the broader trends behind educator labor market challenges.
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Today’s Students, Tomorrow’s Talent: A Guide To Education-Employer Models
February 20, 2024
SCORE’s guide to partnerships between employers and K-12 and postsecondary institutions that put students on clear pathways to jobs that enable economic independence.
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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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Data Insights | K-12 Success
Early Literacy Success for All Students: A Coherent Path Forward
September 26, 2023
Over the last several years, Tennessee has passed legislation and guidance around adoption, purchase, training, and use of high-quality instructional materials in early grades literacy. These efforts have been grounded in research on how students best learn to read — through a focus on systematic, explicit phonics instruction and regular opportunities to build knowledge through reading and responding to complex texts. These policies and practices are beginning to transform and strengthen instruction, with the latest statewide results from the 2022-23 school year showing that 40 percent of third graders are now reading on grade level — the highest percentage since the state raised academic standards nearly a decade ago.
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K-3 Early Literacy Instructional Coherence Literacy Support Toolkit
August 30, 2023
Tennessee’s commitment to research-based early literacy policy and practice has created a foundation for districts and schools to implement instructionally coherent academic support for K-3 literacy.
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Report Summary: Early Literacy Success For All Students
August 24, 2023
Since 2021, Tennessee has transformed literacy instruction by codifying the research on effective early literacy instruction into policy. This approach focuses on systematic, explicit phonics instruction and regular opportunities to build knowledge through reading and responding to complex texts. The legislation, investment, and resulting practice in schools is working.
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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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