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    • Americans Know Very Little About Local School Quality
    • Cut Through the fog and identify the best
    • Going to the school board
      • Parents Should Challenge Their School Board About Critical Race Theory
    • We are inundated in slanted and misleading reports
    • School oversight requires knowledgeable leaders and informed consumers
    • The Big Picture: Improved schools can reverse American decline
    • Unaccountable teacher training is at the heart of the problem
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    • Reading: All US Elementary Schools, Grade Three
    • The First and Most Fundamental “R”
    • K-12 Graduates Prepared for College by School District
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    • Nation’s Report Card by State
    • Economic Cost of Reading Failure by School or District
    • Achievement Growth Data & Why it’s Important
    • Availability of Achievement Gain/Growth Data in US
      • TN Schools ranked by Value Added Achievement Gain
      • TN School Districts Ranked by their Percentage of Effective Teachers Performance
    • Presentation Bar Charts, Tennessee Examples
  • Improving Outcomes
    • First, you have to organize
      • Second, you have to Understand the School Board
      • Third, you may have to enlist the help of other elected officials.
    • Most governors have led some form of data-driven reform.  Tennessee has been a national model.
      • Tennessee’s Pioneering Value-Added Assessment System
      • Value-added performance of TN schools
    • Recognition and Awards Earned by TN’s top performing schools
      • A data-driven reform initiative on the national level: The Follow Through Project
      • Follow Through Briefing
      • Follow Through Results
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Sobering Look at Teacher Prep in TN

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There may be caveats but the grim findings can’t be dismissed.

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