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7:40 am
Wed July 4, 2012

Does Education Really Need the Dough?

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Marketing is my beat. Not education.

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Mid-South Features
6:12 pm
Tue June 19, 2012

Flagg Grove School: Restoration Of An African-American Schoolhouse

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Jim Smith standing at the front door of Flagg Grove School. Smith says there used to be a front porch.
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Jim Smith sitting in front of the blackboard at Flagg Grove School.
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Flagg Grove School
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Interior of Flagg Grove School
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Flagg Grove School in the middle of the Stephens' family farm.
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Desks that the students used when Smith attended. The wooden ones have a back that the lower grade students would use as a desk. The wood and metal ones were for the upper grade students.
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Education is the key to social mobility in the United States.  This fact was not lost on African Americans who were enslaved and later sharecroppers in the South.  In the 1880s one-room schools sprouted up throughout the region.  Many of them are now gone forever and just a distant memory.  But Flagg Grove School in rural West Tennessee is an exception. 

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Mid-South News
4:00 pm
Thu May 17, 2012

State Says New Teacher Evaluations About More Than Grades

Kindergarten Teacher Ashley DeBerry and Performance Improvement Team member Tyler Salyer
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On a recent Tuesday morning at Dexter Elementary School, kindergarten teacher Ashley DeBerry and Tyler Salyer sat down to talk. Salyer used to be a teacher, then he joined the Shelby County Schools Performance Improvement Team, or PIT Crew.

“You ready to get down to business?” he asked DeBerry.

This is DeBerry’s first year teaching and she’s getting a lot of help. A more senior teacher at Dexter Elementary mentors her, she collaborates with the other kindergarten teachers, and she checks in with Salyer regularly.

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