by design | Jul 14, 2014 | News, The Daily Focus
8th District Board of Education member Mike McMillan reports that Representative Harry Brooks has invited Tennessee Deputy Commissioner of Education Kathleen Airhart to speak on the subject of K-12 state requirements for testing and assessments. The event will...
by design | Jul 14, 2014 | Public Notice
Sale at public auction will be on August 18, 2014 on or about 11:00AM local time, at the North door, Knox County Courthouse, Knoxville, Tennessee, conducted by the Substitute Trustee as identified and set forth herein below, pursuant to Deed of Trust executed by...
by design | Jul 13, 2014 | Absher, Archived Editions, Archives
Click here to view this week’s Focus. Race to the top Part 4: Data Mining By Sally Absher By Sally Absher sallyabsher@gmail.com A particularly troubling aspect of the RTTT scheme is the emphasis on massive data-collection on students, and the sharing of that...
by design | Jul 13, 2014 | Archives
By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com If you are a graduate or teacher from a Knoxville or Knox County school I’ll bet you don’t know about the Knox County Museum of Education. It’s in the Sarah Simpson Professional Development and Technology Center at 801 Tipton...
by design | Jul 13, 2014 | Archives
By Mike Steely steelym@knoxfocus.com Throughout Knox County there are places that we probably know the names of but may not know why. This week The Focus takes a look at the communities and neighborhoods and how or why they got their names. Some are pretty obvious,...
by Ray Hill | Jul 13, 2014 | Archives, Columnist, Hill
By Ray Hil By the decade of the 1940s, E. H. Crump, master of the Shelby County political machine, completely dominated Tennessee politics in partnership with Senator Kenneth D. McKellar. Many historians have made the mistake of overestimating Crump’s influence and...
