Standards and Assessment: Setting High Expectations and Monitoring Progress
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Literacy: Adopting Research-Based Strategies to Develop Young Readers
August 8, 2024
Tennessee’s strong foundation of research-based strategies — including early literacy standards, interventions, teacher training, and high-quality instructional materials — have contributed to significant English language arts (ELA) proficiency gains for young readers.
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Postsecondary Success | Education-to-Career Pathways
Postsecondary Innovation Spotlight: One Million Degrees
July 26, 2024
This memo spotlights how the One Million Degrees comprehensive college coaching model has proven successful and could be scalable at Tennessee community colleges and nationwide.
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Teachers & Leaders | K-12 Success
Standards and Assessment: Setting High Expectations and Monitoring Progress
July 8, 2024
Tennessee’s foundational education policies over the last 20 years have led to significant advances in student achievement. This series highlights research-backed policies that are essential pillars of support in helping students achieve career and life success.
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Teachers & Leaders | K-12 Success
Teacher Evaluation: Driving Improved Instruction and Student Achievement
July 8, 2024
Tennessee’s multiple measure teacher evaluation system is foundational to high-quality instruction and has led to significantly positive impacts on student learning.
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Postsecondary Success | Education-to-Career Pathways
Building a Vision of Opportunity for All Tennesseans: Measuring Credential and Degree Outcomes
June 21, 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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Teachers & Leaders | Innovative Models | K-12 Success
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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Teachers & Leaders | Data Insights | K-12 Success
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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Data Insights | Postsecondary Success | Education-to-Career Pathways
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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Data Insights | Postsecondary Success
Higher Ed by the Numbers Data Dashboard
April 17, 2024
SCORE analyzed data from Tennessee’s public higher education institutions and compiled a snapshot of preparation, persistence, and success for postsecondary students. With the right data about student outcomes, state leaders, educators, and advocates can better understand the key metrics to watch and begin to understand the successes and challenges of improving degree and credential attainment.
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Teachers & Leaders | Data Insights | K-12 Success
Strengthening The Educator Labor Market: A Look At Tennessee's Data Webinar
February 27, 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. This webinar highlights key findings from TERA’s research along with insights from district leaders and experts from across the state.
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Teachers & Leaders | Data Insights | K-12 Success
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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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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