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All posts tagged "Shelby County Schools"

On May 4, the second-to-last day of this year’s Tennessee General Assembly, legislators paused to pay their respects to the late state Sen. Thelma Harper, who died April 22. “She wasn’t smiling, not that day,” state Rep. Antonio Parkinson, said later. “The way they did that bill was disrespectful to Sen. Harper, to all Black legislators, to all Black people in this state.” The bill, House Bill 580, was approved May 5. (AP File Photo/Erik Schelzig)

On May 4, the second-to-last day of this year’s Tennessee General Assembly, legislators paused to pay their respects to the late state Sen. Thelma Harper, who died April 22. “She wasn’t smiling, not that day,” state Rep. Antonio Parkinson, said later. “The way they did that bill was disrespectful to Sen. Harper, to all Black legislators, to all Black people in this state.” The bill, House Bill 580, was approved May 5. (AP File Photo/Erik Schelzig)

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Did new Tennessee law negate critical race theory or prove it?

On May 4, the second-to-last day of this year’s Tennessee General Assembly, legislators paused to pay their respects to the late state Sen. Thelma...

David WatersJune 14, 2021

Treadwell Elementary School kindergartners (in a file photo) dance. “The reality of reopening school buildings and college campuses is that any missteps could cost lives, particularly among our most vulnerable students and in Black, brown and poor communities,” said Lily Eskelsen García, president of the National Education Association. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian file)

Treadwell Elementary School kindergartners (in a file photo) dance. “The reality of reopening school buildings and college campuses is that any missteps could cost lives, particularly among our most vulnerable students and in Black, brown and poor communities,” said Lily Eskelsen García, president of the National Education Association. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian file)

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What happens when a Student or teacher tests positive for COVID-19? Schools’ Plans are vague

Memphis area school districts defer details to understaffed health dept.

David WatersJuly 22, 2020

As a reward, Saimiya Swift, 4, gets to be the “brain” in the class for a day as children read out loud from the board during Alice Holman’s pre-K class at Porter-Leath’s Douglas Head Start School on April 23, 2019. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)

As a reward, Saimiya Swift, 4, gets to be the “brain” in the class for a day as children read out loud from the board during Alice Holman’s pre-K class at Porter-Leath’s Douglas Head Start School on April 23, 2019. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)

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Part 3: Costly failures come with lessons for ‘teacher town’: Reading success begins at birth

Bush, Obama, Gates pushed reforms, but local innovators have better ideas

David WatersMay 18, 2019

Dontae’vah Walton and Jaida Anderson (right) rearrange letters to spell words from a class reading assignment in Michelle Biggs’ (left) kindergarten class at Keystone Elementary School on April 12, 2019. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)

Dontae’vah Walton and Jaida Anderson (right) rearrange letters to spell words from a class reading assignment in Michelle Biggs’ (left) kindergarten class at Keystone Elementary School on April 12, 2019. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)

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Part 2: Complex Plans, demands challenge reading teachers to be classroom maestros

Top-down reforms can't replace 'skilled and knowledgeable teacher'

David WatersMay 17, 2019

Madison Clark (left), Ayanna Hughes, La’kiya Carr and Jaylen King work at an easel where they color their reading assignment in Thomas Denson’s Pre-K class at Cherokee Elementary School. More than three in four Shelby County elementary students, and four in five middle and high school students, read below grade level. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)

Madison Clark (left), Ayanna Hughes, La’kiya Carr and Jaylen King work at an easel where they color their reading assignment in Thomas Denson’s Pre-K class at Cherokee Elementary School. More than three in four Shelby County elementary students, and four in five middle and high school students, read below grade level. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)

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Part 1: Chronic poverty, trauma complicate efforts to close third-grade reading gap in Memphis

"When kids are in survival mode, they can't learn."

David WatersMay 16, 2019