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Educators Still Seek Answers to Decades-Old Questions
Cranford H. Burns --- Mobile Superintendent 1952-70Questions posed by an Alabama school superintendent in a letter addressed to his successor in 50 years present many of the most vexing present...
View ArticleLeadership: A Matter of Principal Importance
We talk a lot about leaders. The nation is considering who best to serve as its next president. Fans are analyzing the playing styles put in place by the coaches of their favored NCAA basketball...
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Stopping the Revolving Door of Teacher Turnover
Teacher turnover has a significant and negative effect on student achievement in both math and English/Language Arts. That is the finding of a research team led by Matthew Ronfeldt of the University of...
View ArticleFocus on Instructional Materials a Must for Student Success
“The Common Core standards will only have a chance of raising student achievement if they are implemented with high-quality materials, but there is currently no basis to measure the quality of...
View ArticleLinking Common Assessments and College Readiness
Last week, students across Tennessee began taking their annual TCAP exams. In a few years, however, those tests will be replaced by computer-based assessments taken by students across a consortium of...
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SCORE Institute Focuses State Leaders on Common Core Standards
On Tuesday, leaders from across Tennessee gathered in Nashville to engage in a broad-ranging discussion about better preparing Tennessee’s students through the Common Core State Standards. Governor...
View ArticlePublic-Private Partnerships Key to Improving Education
More than 3 million jobs are open in America today at a time of persistent unemployment because applicants lack necessary skill sets. Last Thursday, a panel of leaders convened at the Center for...
View ArticleRetaining talented teachers
Several weeks ago, students and teachers said their good-byes for the summer. Far too many teachers also say good-bye each summer, however, to the teaching profession itself. I wrote a few months ago...
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Closing the exposure gap
Seven students from low-income families in Birmingham, Alabama—a school district fraught with dysfunction—took on a challenging opportunity this Summer: They spent the month of July studying in...
View ArticleBridging our educational gaps
Back in August, I loaded up a truck in Nashville and headed north to Ann Arbor, Michigan. Here at the University of Michigan, I have just completed my first semester as a doctoral student examining the...
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