#ExpectMoreTN – Dad Gone Wild

Well, That’s Clear As Mud

By TC Weber on June 1, 2015 • ( 5 )

Last week, I wrote about what has become an annual event in Tennessee: the botching of the release of TCAP results. Last year, they came out late, which prevented many schools from being able to include them, as is required… Read More ›

A Pleasant Surprise from a Politician

By TC Weber on May 31, 2015 • ( 4 )

As I travel along on this journey of educating myself on and advocating for education policy, I come into contact with quite a few politicians. The ones who I would count as friends of public education are usually pretty rare…. Read More ›

Here We Go Again

By TC Weber on May 27, 2015 • ( 10 )

Here we go again. In Tennessee, like many states in the Union, we test our students using standardized tests every April. In May and June, the results come out and the questioning begins. The last couple of years have seen the questioning get… Read More ›

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Reset

By TC Weber on May 10, 2015 • ( 12 )

Nashville business leaders have decided that the education conversation, for whatever reason, is in need of a RESET. To begin this “reset,” the Nashville Public Education Foundation has commissioned a group out of Boston, the Parthenon Group, to do a study of Nashville’s… Read More ›

TN ASD: Brand on the Run

By TC Weber on May 8, 2015 • ( 6 )

I figure the Tennessee Achievement School District (ASD) and its superintendent, Chris Barbic, are feeling pretty good these days. The legislative session is over in Tennessee, and they’ve managed to beat back the forces of darkness that wanted to abolish,… Read More ›

RESET?

By TC Weber on May 6, 2015 • ( 2 )

Like many of you, I spend a great deal of time thinking about education. Once I started blogging, I was always thinking about things to write about and what I wanted to say. After 50-some posts, I still don’t have… Read More ›

BALTIMORE: A HARBINGER OF THE FUTURE

By TC Weber on April 30, 2015 • ( 6 )

This week I watched the events of Baltimore unfold on my television, and I read the comments on social media. I can honestly say none of it surprised me. Even when Jeanne Allen jumped in with her tweet claiming charter… Read More ›

What standards could and should mean.

By TC Weber on April 27, 2015 • ( 1 )

Coaching Little League baseball for 4-to-6-year-olds has been the hardest thing I’ve ever done. I confess that during the first month of games, I harbored a constant desire to get in my car and go home. The kids were all incredibly… Read More ›

The TN ASD: In search of a friend

By TC Weber on March 27, 2015 • ( 1 )

A number of months ago I poised the tongue-in-cheek question, “Who actually likes the Tennessee Achievement School District”? Little did I know how much truth was in that question. It is certainly not the people of Memphis or Nashville, who have loudly rejected… Read More ›

Let’s talk Education Facts

By TC Weber on March 17, 2015 • ( 3 )

“…It’s a fairly rudimentary exercise to be frank with you…Revenue follows the student to charter schools. Fixed costs do not follow the student proportionately. So therefore, the more revenue loss you get, the fixed cost base stays the same. There’s… Read More ›