-
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…
-
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…
-
When the evaluator walked into her classroom, Alisa Bledsoe was teaching her sixth grade science class about the difference between a food chain and a…
-
Students across the state will sit down and take a set of state tests called the Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program (TCAP), starting this week,…
-
Come August, the state will be calling the shots at Frayser Elementary, Corning Elementary, and Westside Middle. The schools are the first to be announced…
-
The Knowledge Is Power Program, or KIPP, is a national network of charter schools that have extended school days and a relentless focus on college.…
-
The people charged with planning the merger of Memphis and Shelby County Schools settled on an organizational structure for the new district last…
-
Education reformers want to use more data to evaluate and pay teachers, and they’re making headway in Tennessee. Statewide teachers face a more involved…
-
The way teacher pay works in Memphis and across U.S. is simple—teachers come in at a base salary (in Memphis it’s about $40,000 a year), and they get a…
-
Most American school kids can read, at least to some degree. But they’re lousy at math.That’s no puzzle. Math is a lot harder. There’s no “about” or…