Offices of Research and Education Accountability
Office of Education Accountability Published Reports

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Released Report
September 2008 Tenure in Tennessee
Legislative Brief
August 2008 Assessing the Effectiveness of Tennessee's Pre-Kindergarten Program: Second Interim Report
Prepared by Strategic Research Group
February 2008 Charter Schools in Tennessee: Issues of Innovation and Sustainability
The Comptroller’s Office of Education Accountability contracted with the Center for Research in Educational Policy (CREP) at the University of Memphis for portions of the statistical and survey analyses of this report. Visit CREP's website at http://crep.memphis.edu/web/research/ to view their full reports.
December 2007 Assessing the Effectiveness of Tennessee's Pre-Kindergarten Program: First Interim Report
prepared by Strategic Research Group
September 2007 Assessing the Effectiveness of Tennessee's Pre-Kindergarten Program: Preliminary Report
prepared by Strategic Research Group
April 2007 Family Life Education in Tennessee
April 2007 Protecting Tennesseans from Education Fraud
January 2007 District Approaches to Improving Tennessee's High Priority Schools: Fayette County Schools
January 2007 District Approaches to Improving Tennessee's High Priority Schools: Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools
January 2007 District Approaches to Improving Tennessee's High Priority Schools: Knox County Schools
January 2007 District Approaches to Improving Tennessee's High Priority Schools: Hamilton County Department of Education
January 2007 State Approaches to Improving Tennessee's High Priority Schools
January 2007 District Approaches to Improving Tennessee's High Priority Schools: Memphis City Schools
July 2006 Zero Tolerance: An Update, 2006
April 2006 A Look at Tennessee's Charter Schools
April 2006 Educating Tennessee's Children in Custody
February 2006 Understanding Tennesseans' Attitudes About Education
Prepared by the UT Center for Business and Economic Research
April 2005 Tennessee's Alternative Schools
January 2005 Teaching Kids Math: Is Tennessee Doing Enough?
November 2004 Tennessee's Graduation Exams:Past, Present and Future
May 2004 The Education Improvement Act: a progress report
March 2004 Teaching Tennessee Adults
January 2004 Teaching to empty desks:the effects of truancy in Tennessee Schools
November 2003 Elected vs. Appointed Superintendents: Questions and Answers A Legislative Briefing Paper
August 2003 Zero Tolerance in Tennessee Schools: an update
July 2003 Funding Public Schools: Is the BEP Adequate?
April 2003 School Calendar Choices in Tennessee: a look at year round/nontraditional schools
January 2003 Statewide Summary: Tennessee Schools on Notice
September 2002 System Reports for Schools on Notice 2001
August 2002 School Capital Funding: Supplementary State Profiles
August 2002 School Capital Funding: Tennessee in a National Context
April 2002 A Look at Tennessee's Family Resource Centers
April 2002 Charter Schools in Tennessee?
March 2002 Multiple Choices: Testing in Tennessee
March 2001 National Board Certified Teachers: Questions and Answers
March 2001 Why pre-k? A Legislative Briefing Paper
February 2001 Teaching Tennessee's Kids to Read: An Update
February 2000 Teaching Kids to Read: Is Tennessee Doing Enough?
April 1999 Considering Nursing Practices in Tennessee Schools
March 1999 Without Regard to Gender - Tennessee State Agencies and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972
June 1998 Ready or Not… A Look at Kindergarten Readiness
June 1998 Riding the Bus: Getting Kids to School Safely
February 1998 Getting Tough on Kids: A look at Zero Tolerance
December 1997 Work in The School Place: Tennessee's School-to-Work Program
July 1997 Seeking Common Ground: JROTC versus Wellness
December 1996 Educating Special Students in Tennessee
April 1996 A Review and Analysis of the Tennessee Value-Added Assessment System: Part 1
Part1 Prepared by: R Darrell Bock, University of Chicago, Richard Wolfe, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.
April 1996 A Review and Analysis of the Tennessee Value-Added Assessment System: Part 2
Part 2 prepared by: Thomas H. Fisher, Florida Department of Education
September 1995 Tennessee's Alternative Schools: Serving Disruptive Students
July 1995 Implementing the Tennessee Education Network
April 1995 The Measure of Education: A Review of the Tennessee value Added Assessment System
March 1995 The Role of the State Board of Education

Briefing Papers