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Nashville Education

Nashville Teacher starting salaries are competitive

  • Metro Budget
  • May 6, 2012
If you repeat a falsehood often enough people will accept it as the truth. The Tennessean in its editorial today in support of Karl Dean's...
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How to avoid the 10 most common chemicals that cause learning disorders

In a previous article, a report from Environmental Health Perspectives was cited regarding 10 chemicals that were widely considered to be the...
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Chemicals in our daily lives, and their effect on children's learning

Learning disabilities have a profound effect on a child's educational progress and self-confidence. The effects on the child's family are...
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Nashville's Mayor's Field Day puts the focus on physical fitness

Tennessee ranks fourth in the nation in childhood obesity. With this in mind, Nashville Mayor Karl Dean follows up his 2011 healthy living...
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Lipscomb unveils new institute in partnership with the Ayers Foundation

This morning,Lipscomb UniversityPresidentDr. Randy Lowrymade an important announcement regarding a new partnership between theirCollege of...
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Use fact families to help students learn basic math facts

Basic math facts are to math what the alphabet is to reading. A student should know that 4+5=9 as quickly as they can recognize the sound for the...
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Tennessee parent report card update

  • Tennessee parent report card
  • April 12, 2012
Based on media coverage and responses to recent articles, the idea of grading parents on involvement in students’ educations is a hot topic....
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Governor Haslam allows "monkey bill" to become a law

Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam said Tuesday that he will not veto the so-called “monkey bill,” allowing it to become a state law. The...
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End-of-Year Testing is Right Around the Corner

TCAP testing for Nashville's Metro School System is rapidly approaching. The tests for the Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program (TCAP)...
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Summer Learning with the Warner Parks (Part 2 of Summer Learning Loss)

As was mentioned in Part 1 of this series, summer learning loss is a real worry for students. Kids can lose one to three months of learning over...
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