
New chart shows effective schools in Johnson City and Washington County
The ECF recently recognized seven schools in Johnson City and Washington County through its Most Effective Schools program. See those schools charted on their TCAP and value-added performance in this PDF file.
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2008 School Performance Charts for Tennessee elementary and middle schools - now available
The 2008 edition of the Education Consumers Foundation's School Performance Charts are now available. Anyone interested in school performance in Tennessee can use these interactive and intuitive charts to compare the value-added performance of schools and districts against others in the state.
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Education Sector Publishes "The Benwood Plan," a Report on the Use of Value-Added Data in Tennessee
Education Sector, an independent education think tank, has published a report on the Benwood Initiative in Hamilton County, Tennessee. This initiative, sponsored by the Benwood Foundation, leverages information made available by the state's value-added system to promote effective instruction.
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Movie Trailer: Two Million Minutes
Regardless of nationality, as soon as a student completes the 8th grade, the
clock starts ticking. From that very moment the child has approximately two million minutes until high school graduation. How do they spend their time in the US, as compared with India and China? Click here to see a trailer for this new movie.
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Dec. 19 Editorial in The Hendersonville Star News: "The value of value-added data"
Click here to read the text of an editorial piece by Dr. J.E. Stone of the Education Consumers Foundation regarding the Foundation's outreach efforts in Sumner County.
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Article in The Hendersonville Star News on ECF's outreach efforts to Sumner County residents
The December 7 edition of The Hendersonville Star News featured an article titled "Report on school accountability creates dialogue," which highlighted the Foundation's work in distributing detailed information on school performance to every household in Sumner County. Read the article here, and our commentary here.
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Education Consumers Foundation releases new report: Effective Schools, Common Practices
The ECF sent a researcher to interview principals of six of the most effective schools in Tennessee; read the Foundation's new report to learn about the 12 practices that all of these six schools have in common
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