Literacy
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Tennessee students showed progress in statewide testing this year, but is the progress sustainable?
After seeing steady gains in reading scores, Memphis leaders say they’re turning attention more to middle school math.
Preliminary TCAP data will be released the day before the MSCS school year ends. District leaders don’t have time to hold retakes only for struggling students who could be held back a year.
Approaching a topic from a different perspective might not be the answer for struggling learners. A Tennessee district saw students make more progress when tutoring materials aligned with classroom instruction.
The ruling indicates that the first challenge to Tennessee’s expanded school books law faces an uphill battle.
Some Tennessee state testing requirements are overly burdensome or duplicative, teachers told state lawmakers considering education policy changes.
MSCS leaders will pay outside company Reading Horizons over $540,000 for its dyslexia-specific tutoring curriculum. But one local literacy expert worries it won’t be enough to boost proficiency.
MSCS earned the highest score in the Tennessee Value-Added Assessment System for the fourth year in a row. But younger students lost progress in social studies, falling behind expected growth.
MSCS board members voted not to pay for tutors from local nonprofit Literacy Mid-South in this year’s budget. They haven’t responded to a cheaper proposal from the CEO over a month ago.
The state’s largest district saw the biggest gains in elementary school reading proficiency and algebra scores. But the majority of third-graders still didn’t pass a critical reading test.
The state bet big on tutoring and summer learning programs after the pandemic.
Book banning action has escalated locally, not at the state level
Are the policies making students better readers? Some officials are encouraged.
Under an expanded state law, the removals have gone from ‘a trickle to a tidal wave,’ says one librarian
Teachers are to begin — and end — every class with a literacy-based activity.
Also removed: ‘Wicked’ and ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower’
One librarian anonymously reported pulling 300 titles since the school year’s start.
Tutoring failed to lift math and reading grades in a study of 7,000 students
Tennessee’s Missy Testerman speaks out against classroom and library censorship, private school vouchers