State Board of Education

The P-16 Picture
College Board releases Coming to Our Senses, a report on America’s educational competitiveness. Check out the graph on page 7 of the full report, showing a complete P-16 pipeline.
Recent international comparisons contain alarming news for Americans: The United States, which led the world in high school completion rates throughout the 20th century, […]

Effective Leaders
John King, founder of Roxbury Prep Charter School in Boston and managing director of Uncommon Schools in New York City, speaks after receiving Robin Hood Foundation’s Hero award:

Obama’s Education Secretary selection likely to offend many.
Effective Teachers
Hamilton Co. teachers training teachers in advance of new State Board standards.
Detroit teachers want to start own public charter […]

The Middle Grades Task Force will hold a meeting on Friday at 10AM (CST)
Call-in information is noted below.
Topic: Middle Grades Task Force
Date: Friday, December 5, 2008
Time: 10:00 am, Central Standard Time (GMT -06:00, Chicago)
Meeting Number: 920 887 210
Meeting Password: middle
Please click the link below to see more information, or to join the meeting.
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A review of UCLA management professor William Ouchi’s book, Making Schools Work.
Effective Leaders
Memphis nurtures potential leaders.
Three leaders talk about solutions in education:
Louis Gerstner Jr., former chairman and CEO of IBM Corp.
James Comer, a professor of child psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine Child Study Center
Joel Klein, Chancellor of the New York City Department of […]

The Board will hold a conference call meeting on December 15th at 1:30PM (CST).
The agenda can be found at the following link.
Call-in information are noted below.
State Board of Education
9th Floor, Andrew Johnson Tower
710 James Robertson Parkway
Nashville, TN 37243
(615) 741 - 2966
Topic: State Board of Education
Date: Monday, December 15, 2008
Time: 1:30 pm, Central Standard Time […]