The Public School Forum, an organization concerned with ensuring Tennessee's schools are implementing best practices in education, has launched a new website.
The site features three public service commercials, two of which include Tennessee Lady Vol women's basketball coach Pat Summitt. The announcements concern raising educational standards and equipping students with the right knowledge and equipment to succeed in their studies.
The commercials are currently airing on seven East Tennessee television stations, and can be re-viewed on the site. The site is supported by the Knoxville Chamber and the Great School Partnership.
In a continuing series of columns on education, the Knoxville News Sentinel this weekend had a column from Pete Stevens about individual teachers and their effect on the education system as a whole.
Stevens placed teachers in one of three categories, wonderful, adequate but in need of mentoring, and terrible. He polled upper-level college students and found that through their experiences, up to 50 percent of teachers fall into that last category.
Former superintendent Charles Lindsey's recommendation was to ensure that students did not have two bad teachers in a row. Stevens' recommendation was to, "kill government schools."
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