The first class in Tennessee to get a free do-over on ACT testing is also the first class to push the state over an average score of 20 on the national college entrance exam, an indication that the state’s...
The Trump administration’s wind-down of protections for some undocumented immigrants isn’t leading daily newscasts now, but it’s still very much in the minds of the nation’s students.
Chalkbeat sat in recently as students at Memphis Central High School took...
Memphis school and philanthropic leaders were in the nation’s capital Thursday to hear how a local philanthropic group has raised $120 million for school initiatives in Washington, D.C.
The Memphis contingent joined representatives from 16 other cities at a one-day...
Teaching and learning haven’t stopped during Tennessee’s two-year gap in standardized testing, but the scores that help gauge how students, teachers and schools are doing have definitely been interrupted.
That void will start to be filled on Wednesday morning when...
by Caroline Bauman, Chalkbeat Tennessee
As the newly named chief academic officer for Tennessee’s turnaround district, Verna Ruffin said one of her first priorities will be investing in their top tier teachers.
“We know that we have critical work to do,” Ruffin...
Calling reading the “equity issue of our time,” Education Commissioner Candice McQueen said Thursday that Tennessee will increase its literacy rates when it improves the quality of its early education programs.
The state has been waging war on illiteracy for...
A charter school opening next year in midtown Memphis has been awarded a $2.5 million grant through a national contest aimed at reinventing America’s high schools.
Leaders of Crosstown High announced Wednesday that it’s receiving the money over five years...
Nine school leaders are up for an annual statewide award, including one principal from Memphis.
Tracie Thomas, a principal at White Station Elementary School, represents schools in Shelby County on the state’s list of finalists. Last year, Principal Docia...
Shelby County Schools has reclaimed a Memphis school building that formerly housed a state-run charter school that just moved across town.
This week, the former campus of Raleigh-Egypt Middle School began housing middle schoolers under the local district in Memphis.
District...
Dorsey Hopson has been at the helm of Tennessee’s largest district for four years, but his cabinet has been a bit of a revolving door since the historic merger of city and county schools.
Only three members of his 11-person...