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Growing our Irreplaceables Pt. 4: Recruit Only the Best

The Green Bay Packers are my football team.  There are many things to love them as both a team and a franchise.  One of my favorites is that 50 of their current 53 players have played only for the...

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Growing our Irreplaceables Part 7: Summing It All Up

Check out the rest of our irreplaceable series here: Part 1: the need Part 2: develop successful school leaders Part 3: incentivize the best to teach in high need schools Part 4: recruit only the best...

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Five Things I’m Thankful For As An American Teacher in 2013

I’ll be taking a break from writing between now and Christmas.  Before I do, though, I want to highlight some of the things that we have going for us as educators in Shelby County, Tennessee and the...

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Local Funding Alternatives for K-12 Education

When Governor Haslam announced this week that he plans to eliminate his proposed 2 percent salary increase for Tennessee Teachers, he didn’t just leave educators out in the cold.  He’s now left...

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Education Funding and Our Broken Tax Code

Is your kids school being closed next year?  Is your pre-K program being cut?  Are class sizes being increased at your child’s school? The problem is much bigger than the school board.  Smart City...

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School Board Candidates Live and In Person TONIGHT!

First Baptist Church on Broad Avenue. Twelve of our school board candidates will be attending this forum, hosted by StudentsFirst, BAEO and the Tennessee Federation for Children. You can find out...

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ASD vs SCS: Who’s Doing Better, and Is It Enough to Close the Achievement Gap?

On Monday this week the state of Tennessee released their system-specific achievement data from this past year. ChalkbeatTN has already done some excellent infographics over on their site comparing SCS...

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The BEP Law Suit Cometh

In light of the Shelby County School board voting 9-0 to join Knox, Hamilton and Bradley counties in exploring the possibility of suing the state of Tennessee, I’d like to repost my piece from this...

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Week In Review: Common Core Lives, YES Prep Quits

Lots happened this week in education. Here’s your Saturday Roundup. First, the big story of the week was Yes Prep pulling out of their agreement to open a charter school in Memphis next year after 2...

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Municipal Districts vs Williamson County

A couple weeks ago a reader asked if we could examine how the municipal districts all did side by side, and then compare them to Williamson County over in the center of the state. This seemed like a...

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