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Research plays a crucial role in shaping effective education policies and practices. By grounding decisions in data, we can identify successful strategies and areas that need improvement. This evidence-based approach helps tailor interventions to meet students’ needs, ensuring all Tennessee students have the opportunity to succeed from K-12 through their careers.

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Funding Student Opportunity Through Tennessee’s Outcomes-Based Formula

August 13, 2024

Postsecondary education leads to improved earnings and employment on average, but not all credentials and degrees yield meaningful economic returns. There’s also a persistent shortage of educated Tennesseans to meet our workforce needs. The outcomes-based funding formula is one among a series of important strategies to ensure the state’s education systems drive students toward career success and steer Tennessee toward economic growth. It’s time to align the outcomes-based funding formula to include measures that show whether students are prepared for careers that enable economic independence.

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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 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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Strategic Investments

SCORE maximizes our impact across the state through strategic investments in innovative mission-aligned work. In partnership with tnAchieves, SCORE supported research on the impact of the Knox Promise program, which provides completion grants and coaching to Tennessee Promise scholarship students from Knox County, and research on the impact of dedicated transfer pathways coaching for Tennessee Promise students planning to transfer to a four-year university. This research helped show the positive impact of both completion grants and coaching for community college students’ long-term outcomes.

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