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An article in this morning’s Commercial Appeal highlights something every educator already knows: Poverty plays a big role in the education of our nation’s children. As the child of two educators who avoided the family business, this isn’t news to me. I’ve been hearing this my entire life. So its odd when I hear...
Over at Pith, Woodsie is talking Education, noting that Tennessee ranks 46th in overall education spending. That, of course, prompted me to take a look at just what our nearly lowest in the nation education spending is getting us. According to the Census Bureau Tennessee isn’t too far off the national average when it...
From Hispanic Nashville, there will be a screening of a documentary called “Papers.” Can you imagine graduating from high school with all of your friends, in a country that may be all you’ve ever known, only to realize that you do not have the same opportunities as your peers? You do not qualify for...
Cathy McCaughan deserves a great deal of credit for using online tools to spread the word about the school system in Knoxville. Michael Silence spotlighted her yesterday in his Sunday column. One of the area’s more active online warriors is West Knoxville’s Cathy McCaughan, who blogs at Domestic Psychology. With five kids, McCaughan is...
The University of Memphis has seen a surge in enrollment since last semester the Commercial Appeal reports. University officials say aggressive recruitment and retention programs helped the numbers. Two years ago they were talking about community colleges, but with the economy continuing to be weak, people may be more willing to wait it out...
Here’s the story of how this video went viral. The video is from Hope Christian School from Minneapolis. It’s not from Tennessee, but education over a diamond ring is for everyone. Instead of singing about seeking an engagement ring, the girls boast with attitude about earning top grades, preparing for college and staying free...
Wow! Memphis needs something like this. Master’s degree students at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College of Education and Human Development can receive free tuition in exchange for teaching at some of Metro’s lowest-performing middle schools, under a new partnership announced Monday. Not to disparage Memphis City School teachers, but removing one of the barriers to...
Enclave points to a new study that indicates the Charter School phenomenon may come with some “unintended” consequences… The report found that charter schools continue to stratify students by race, class, and possibly language, and are more racially isolated than traditional public schools in virtually every state and large metropolitan area in the country...