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The Tennessee Project

• Testing in Tennessee: A Primer for Parents
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• ECF's School Performance Charts
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• Value-Added Achievement Awards
  • About the Value-Added Achievement Awards
    • Learn about the Value-Added Achievement Awards Initiative
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  • 2008 Value-Added Achievement Awards
    • Map Showing Winning Schools and Principals
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    • Report on the Awards from WBIR (Knoxville)
  • 2007 Value-Added Achievement Awards
    • Map Showing Winning Schools and Principals
    • Press Release on 2008 Awards Program
    • Images from the 2007 Ceremony
    • Newspaper Stories on 2008 Awards Program
    • Dr. Stone's Remarks at 2008 Ceremony
    • Report on Amqui Elementary from WKRN (Nashville)
  • 2006 Value-Added Achievement Awards
    • Map Showing Winning Schools and Principals
    • Press Release on 2008 Awards Program
    • Images from the 2006 Ceremony
  • Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
• Value-Added Data Analysis
• Educational Practices of Six Effective Tennessee Schools
• Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations Used in Tennessee's Value-Added Assessment Reports
• Support for Parents, Educators, and the Community

Research/Insight

• v4n10 - Engaging Minds: Motivation & Learning in America's Public Schools (Book)
• v4n9 - Teaching Skill Under Scrutiny (article)
• v4n8 - The Free and Happy Student" (1973) by B. F. Skinner
• v4n7 - Three-year-old's Traits Predict Personality at Age 26. (study)
• v4n6 - Can Teacher Quality Be Effectively Assessed (study)
• v4n5 - How to Build a Better Teacher (book)
• v4n4 - Grading, Grade Inflation, and Learning in Elementary Schools (article)
• v4n3 - Politics of Head Start advocacy (article)
• v4n2 - The Real Value of Teachers & TVAAS (monograph)
• v4n1 - Reform of and by the System: A Case Study (article)
• v3n12 - Engaging Schools: Fostering High School Students' Motivation to Learn (report)
• v3n11 - Preparing Teachers: Are American Schools of Education up to the Task? (article)
• v3n10 - Do Students Have Too Much Homework? (report)
• v3n4 - Reflections on Class Size and Teacher Quality (article)
• v3n3 - Teacher Reform Gone Astray (chapter)
• v2n12 - Shifting Images of Developmentally Appropriate Practice (article)
• v2n11 - Bringing Evidence-Driven Progress to Education, A Recommended Strategy for the U. S. Department of Education (report)
• v2n9 - Preventing Reading Failure (report)
• v2n7 - Meeting the Highly Qualified Teachers Challenge (report)
• v2n6 - Evolution of New American Schools (report)
• v2n5 - Value-Added Gains of NBPTS-Certified Teachers (article)
• v2n4 - How Science Informs Reading Instruction? (article)
• v2n2 - Estimating the Costs and Benefits of Educational Testing (article)
• v2n1 - Court-ordered Spending Brings More of the Same (article)
• v1n12 - Teacher Certification Reconsidered: Stumbling for Quality (report)
• v1n11 - Why students in some countries do better (article)
• v1n10 - Home Environments for Learining (book)
• v1n9 - Rethinking Special Education (report)
• v1n8 - Schoolbook Simplification and Its Relation to the Decline in SAT-Verbal Scores (article)
• v1n7 - Professionalism and the Public Good: A Brief History of Teacher Certification (Monograph)
• v1n6 - Parents and Schools: The 150-Year Struggle for Control in American Education (book)
• v1n5 - Direct Instruction and the Teaching of Early Reading, Wisconsin's Teacher-Led Insurgency (report)
• v1n4 - Facing the Classroom Challenge (report)
• v1n3 - Teacher Evaluation & Student Achievement (monograph)
• v1n2 - Follow through: Why didn't we? (article)
• v1n1 - Aligning teacher training with public policy (article)

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