The report contains real-world, proven school climate strategies to guide policymakers in building a comprehensive and coherent state-wide approach for improving school climate. It features 12 recommendations linked to existing state policy examples policymakers can use to build a comprehensive, coherent state-wide approach for improving school…

Chapter 740 of the Public Acts of 1988 mandated that student needs assessments are to be conducted annually. Needs assessment may be defined as a process for idenitfying the gaps between educational goals (outcomes) established for students and students' actual performance. Whether goals and objectives are explicit or implicit, they play a…

Developed by a statewide committee of educators in the field of mathematics, this framework is designed to serve as a basic tool for curriculum development and implementation in Tennessee high schools. Each local school system is required to implement this framework beginning with the 1988-89 school year. The document contains goals and terminal…