Tennessee Department of Education

The research team will conduct an evaluation of Tennessee Pathways (along with earlier career pathway programs), a state initiative to align K-12 education, postsecondary education, and employers so that high school students have a clear pathway to move into the workforce.

to modernize the Tennessee's interagency data systems, P20 Connect TN.

Goals of this project are to drive: (1) Increased use of SLDS data; (2) Smarter use of SLDS data and information; (3) Improved data-driven decision-making by stakeholders; and (4) Fully aligned education-to-workforce and teacher preparation-to classroom pipelines.

Building on existing research collaborations between the Tennessee Department of Education (TDOE) and researchers at both Vanderbilt and Brown/Harvard Universities, researchers for this project will examine the implementation and impact of the Evaluation Partnership Program (EPP) on teacher and student outcomes. The EPP is a central component of the state's teacher evaluation system and its ongoing efforts to use the system to promote instructional improvement. Researchers will also focus o...

The Common Core State Standards in Mathematics (CCSS-M) set high standards for procedural fluency, conceptual understanding, and reasoning, and call upon teachers to instruct in ways that support students as they work to meet these ambitious standards. As districts and states work toward implementing the CCSS-M, they are revisiting typical professional development for mathematics teachers.

This project team evaluated the impact of Tennessee's dual credit course for Advanced Algebra/Trigonometry on students' high school and college outcomes. Dual-credit courses are courses taken in high school that can provide college credit. These courses are designed to align high school and college curricula by providing college-level instruction within the familiar context of high school. Curricular alignment between high school and college may better prepare students by exposing them to th...