Grace Tatter
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Good Bot, Bad Bot | Part II: The future of bots in government
How can bots increase transparency and shine a light on corruption, such as insider trading, among our elected officials? Will bots be put on the ballot in the near future? We go into all of this and more in this installment of Good Bot, Bad Bot. → Read More
Your Questions On COVID Variants, Answered
Variants. They're all over the news. We push beyond the headlines and answer everything you want to know about COVID variants. → Read More
Knocking On Doors To Build Trust In The Coronavirus Vaccine
In Camden County, New Jersey, the Department of Health initiates conversations about the vaccine long before asking people to sign up for their first shots. → Read More
The Prospect Of Peace In Afghanistan
The United States, the Taliban and the future of Afghanistan. Is the end of the endless war in sight? What are the prospects for a real peace? → Read More
Solutions For Economic Inequality From 2019 Nobel Prize Winners
Tackling today’s trickiest global challenges with the winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics, Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee. → Read More
N.J. Gov. Phil Murphy: 'No Evidence' That Newark Residents Can't Get Bottled Water
Newark has been distributing bottled water to more than 14,000 homes for the last 10 days after an EPA order over high lead levels. → Read More
How to Develop a Greater Sense of Motivation in Students
Learn new insights into how motivation works, why it can lag, and what we can do to help students develop it. Researchers look at approach motivation and avoidance motivation and how they both work in a person's life. → Read More
How Making Time for Mindfulness Helps Students
A new study shows how mindfulness education in the classroom can reduce students' sense of stress and lengthen attention spans. → Read More
Six Ways to Teach Social and Emotional Skills All Day
Social-emotional learning shouldn’t be relegated to a distinct unit or stand-alone curriculum. Here’s how to infuse it throughout the day. → Read More
Long before tragic bus crash, Chattanooga’s Woodmore Elementary offered school turnaround lessons for America
Almost a year after the crash killed six of its students, Woodmore is among five long-struggling schools now facing state […] → Read More
How one Nashville school uses classic novels to get young students ahead in reading
Beginning in the earliest grades, reading goes far beyond sounding out words at Nashville Classical Charter School. → Read More
How one Nashville school uses classic novels to get young students ahead in reading
Beginning in the earliest grades, reading goes far beyond sounding out words at Nashville Classical Charter School. → Read More
Tennessee’s turnaround district is reaching the end of an era
The Achievement School District isn’t going anywhere, but it’s taking a backseat to other school improvement tools for the Tennessee […] → Read More
Tennessee considers a new approach for getting local schools to improve: working with them
The State Department of Education is eyeing Chattanooga for Tennessee’s first foray into a “partnership zone” approach. → Read More
Here’s how Tennessee’s downsized turnaround district will look — and what charter leaders are saying about it
Under its new structure, the Achievement School District aims to do mostly the same work with half as many positions. → Read More
TNReady took almost twice as long as Tennessee tests in 2012. Here’s why.
Elementary and middle school students took about eight hours of end-of-year tests this year, an amount consistent with national trends […] → Read More
McQueen declares TNReady a ‘success.’ Here’s what comes next for Tennessee.
After a non-eventful testing period with the state’s new test, Tennessee is marching ahead with its plan to test all […] → Read More
Lawmakers want a whole semester of Tennessee history — but aren’t sure how schools can fit that in
The proposal emerges as the state is poised to adopt new social studies standards that include fewer state-specific facts. → Read More
Before voucher legislation comes back in 2018, Tennessee lawmakers want a plan to determine whether vouchers work
Lawmakers who backed a proposal for a Memphis pilot program hope to clear up questions about what kind of tests […] → Read More
Live, from Music City, an elementary school teacher presents life lessons with a beat
Nashville elementary school teacher Christopher Blackmon is one of 31 educators nationwide named 2017 Music Teachers of Excellence by the […] → Read More