by design | Nov 15, 2015 | Absher, Archives, Columnist
By Sally Absher The banner at the top of the Knox County Schools website proclaims “Tennessee State Report Card Reveals Knox County Schools Achieves 90% High School Graduation Rate.” Admittedly, that is an improvement over the KCS graduation of 79.3% in 2008, and the...
by design | Nov 9, 2015 | Absher, Columnist
By Sally Absher After deferring it for several months, the KCS Board of Education spent considerable time during both their work session and regular monthly meeting last week discussing revisions to Policy GBG, “Non-Tenure,” only to reject the first reading of...
by design | Nov 9, 2015 | Absher, Columnist
By Sally Absher The “Approval of a Services Agreement with The New Teacher Project Inc. (TNTP) to perform a literacy diagnostic at West Hills Elementary School at no cost to KCS” listed on Wednesday’s consent agenda generated some interesting discussion at last week’s...
by design | Nov 9, 2015 | Absher, Columnist
By Sally Absher TN Ready Testing on an Empty Stomach? Last week local high schools began Part 1 of the New Improved TN Ready standardized end of course assessments for fall semester classes (despite it being about a month and a half from the end of the course). The...
by design | Nov 2, 2015 | Absher, Columnist
By Sally Absher Seems everyone is jumping on the “there is too much testing in public schools” bandwagon these days, from President Obama to his (soon to be former) Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to Chairman of the Senate Education Committee Lamar Alexander. The...
by design | Nov 2, 2015 | Absher, Columnist
By Sally Absher Teacher’s Facebook Comment Pays off for Knoxville Students Last Monday, a West Hills Elementary School fourth grade class was presented with five tablets and 24-hour access to a game-based, online math program – all because of a comment their...
