Yesterday, April 12th, Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam signed into law a new Tennessee Teacher Tenure process. Ultimately, this Tenure Law will be informed by the implementation of a new Tennessee teacher evaluation system to be approved Friday, April 15th, by the...
Memphis City Schools announced yesterday that approximately 40 out of 499 teachers having completed three years of service were denied tenure. This represents an 8% denial rate, up from a 3% (18 denied out of 448) denial rate last year. See article here:...
Monday (April 4), Dr. Irving Hamer, Deputy Superintendent of the Memphis City Schools and Mr. Ken Foster, Executive Director of the Memphis Educational Association (teachers union) jointly wrote the following opinion published in the Christian Science Monitor of the good reform work happening in Memphis....
Monday, April 4, 2011 is the 43rd anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.To remember Dr. King, I read his essay titled "Paul's Letter to American Christians" written on November 4, 1956. In this essay, MLK translates a fictitious letter written...
Friends-On March 22, 2011 The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation released a statement expressing their continued support of Memphis, our teachers and our students.While much has transpired over the past six months, one thing has not changed...
Please read this recent story surrounding a mother jailed for illegally placing her children in a higher performing school. Here's the MTR / Christian context on urban education takeaway...
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Martin Luther King graduated from Morehouse College in 1948. During his senior year, MLK wrote the following words on the "Purpose of Education". As we seek to pursue urban education within a Christian context, I thought his words on education were especially...
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See this week's (January 6, 2011) issue of The Economist, "Improving Teachers, Lessons Learned".http://www.economist.com/node/17851511?story_id=17851511Focusing on teachers as the leverage point for learning and residency models as the format for training great teachers is gaining traction nationally. See the following quotes: "BUDGET, curriculum,...