
2025 State of Education in Tennessee: Casting a Vision for Student Success
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Bristol Tennessee City Schools, Case Study
August 16, 2022
For years, Bristol Tennessee City Schools (BTCS) had been considering how it could adjust the support it was providing to the approximately 10 percent of its high school sophomores, juniors, and seniors who persistently struggle to succeed academically, attend school consistently, and, ultimately, graduate on time.
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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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High-Dosage Tutoring Toolkit
June 21, 2021
High-dosage tutoring is a research-based practice that can help schools and districts address learning gaps and accelerate learning. This guide highlights important implementation considerations that must be a part of any effective plan to launch high dosage tutoring in your school or district.
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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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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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Supporting Postsecondary Student Success
January 13, 2020
The first meeting of the 2020-21 Complete Tennessee Leadership Institute (CTLI) program focused on equity and quality of access to higher education. For the second meeting, the policy discussions will focus on the theme of supporting postsecondary student success. Once students have started their higher education journey, how can state and local leaders help them stay continuously enrolled and make steady progress toward their goals?
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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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What High School Could Be
December 3, 2019
For more than a decade, Tennesseans have embraced the idea that every student should graduate from high school ready to start postsecondary education, military service, or a career. Despite some noteworthy signs that students are better prepared than ever before – including historically high graduation rates and average ACT scores – the majority of Tennessee’s recent graduates are not ready for opportunities after high school as measured by student learning outcomes, including postsecondary certificate and degree attainment, earnings, and civic engagement. In order for every Tennessean to achieve success in college, career, and life, they must receive a high school education that prepares them for the 21st century.
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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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