The leader of the Nashville Public Education Foundation plans to step down to join a Nashville-based public affairs consulting firm. Shannon Hunt, the foundation president and CEO, will join The Strategy Group as a partner …
Nashville schools director Shawn Joseph: the best days are ahead
As a father of two school-aged children here in Metro Nashville Public Schools, and as an educator serving over the last 22 years as a teacher, school leader and district administrator, I have never felt …
Nashville bargains: Deals for hometown tourists and food lovers top Ms. Cheap’s ‘C’ List
There is no way I would have the patience or stamina to be a school teacher. Phew, teachers really are our unsung heroes, doing so much for us and our children. So I love seeing the …
Pay, leadership are key to retaining Metro Nashville teacher
Meet Jenna Davis, a fourth-grade teacher at Glenview Elementary School, which is part of Metro Nashville Public Schools. This is a profile of an MNPS educator as part of the occasional Teacher Talks series in …
Lewis Lavine, a nonprofit and business ‘conversation builder and connector,’ dies at age 71
Lewis Lavine, a respected non-profit, business and government leader known as “a convener, conversation builder and connector,” died on Wednesday of heart failure. He was 71 years old. Lavine’s connections stretched to all corners of …
Poll: Parents, voters agree the quality of Nashville’s schools is stagnant
A new poll shows parents and voters agree that the quality of Nashville’s public schools has remained stagnant over the past five years. The finding within the survey conducted by the Nashville Public Education Foundation of 500 …
Only one in four Nashville schools graduates earn a degree after leaving the district, report shows
Less than a quarter of Metro Nashville Public Schools’ 4,480 graduates in 2011 earned a college degree after they left the city’s schools. The majority of those degree-earning students graduated from four-year colleges, according to a …
Nashville has a long way to go on child literacy
Metro Nashville’s public schools are educating 86 percent of the city’s elementary school children. So when a child isn’t reading proficiently, it’s easy to assume schools aren’t doing their jobs. But that’s a simplification of …
Literacy begins at birth
Do you think the first day of kindergarten is when a child’s learning begins? Research shows that 90 percent of a child’s brain develops before age 5, with the most significant development from birth to …
How to improve literacy scores: Trust teachers, make reading relevant
Nashville isn’t alone in its struggle to increase literacy scores. It’s a state issue. It’s a national issue, too. The number of students who read proficiently by fourth grade on the 2015 National Assessment of …