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NPT Reports: Charter to Convert Failing Schools in Nashville

Published on April 18, 2012 By lturner

Nashville’s Cameron School is actually two schools in one building. One part of the building is a traditional public school (Cameron Middle School), whose staff is aggressively working to get rid of the label it acquired in recent years as a “failing school.” The other part (Cameron College Prep) is a charter school run by [...]

(NPT Reports) Bitter Harvest: Rural Schools Left Behind In `No Child Left Behind`

Published on September 27, 2011 By lturner

When a small town school fails under No child Left Behind, it affects more than just those students. It can leave an entire community scrambling to deal with the implications. For one thing, many rural school districts have so few schools that if one fails, there is not another choice for students to attend—even though [...]

(NPT Reports) Nashville Teachers Take Science to Other Courses

Published on September 14, 2011 By lturner

Teachers in some Nashville public schools are learning how to teach outside their comfort zones in an effort to bring science into other academic subjects. They are participating in a new program in Nashville Public Schools intended to close the science gap by helping students and their teachers appreciate the relevance of science. If it [...]