When reviewing midyear test results for Believe Memphis Academy’s students, school leaders saw something rare in the era of virtual learning: Students on average scored 10% higher in math compared to last year. Nationally, students are scoring lower in math this year after historic disruptions to education because of the pandemic.
The small charter school in North Memphis enrolls about 330 students and opened under Shelby County Schools in 2018. Shelby County Schools did note unusual increases in test scores among students in kindergarten, first, and second grade districtwide, and assumed parents of virtual learners at home were helping their children on the online tests.
Coveted In-State WR Cameron Miller Discusses Recruitment, Vols, and More
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Feb 22, 2021
Memphis Academy of Health and Sciences (Tenn.) Cameron Miller did not get to play last fall due to COVID restrictions in the area, but that has not kept him from being one of the most sought after pass catchers in the country. The talented wide out discusses the challenges of not being able to play, and his recruitment here. It was kind of upsetting a little bit that I didn t get a chance to play this season, but I just have to stay on my grind and just focus on the next thing ahead of me. I couldn t worry about us not playing. So the only thing I really worried about was getting better and just preparing for the next season and getting ready for the next level, Miller said.
At 78, a Memphis sculptor sees his work headed to museums Follow Us
Question of the Day By PEGGY BURCH and The Daily Memphian - Associated Press - Sunday, December 27, 2020
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - The artist Luther Hampton sits at a table next to the bar at B.B. King’s Blues Club on Beale, drawing his own face on the sketch book in front of him. When someone sits down across from him, after an exchange of pleasantries, he asks for more coffee, turns the page and says he’s one of the “fastest sketch artists in America” – he can draw the visitor’s face before the server returns with his coffee. He does, and it’s a good likeness.
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Schools, both public and private, across Tennessee are starting to pilot rapid COVID-19 tests in an effort to keep classrooms open.
Hamilton County Schools, the state’s fourth-largest district, began testing symptomatic teachers in the district’s middle schools on Monday, using BinaxNOW rapid COVID-19 tests provided by the Tennessee Department of Health.
Mardee Miller, principal of Howard Connect Academy, was one of the first tested by a trained school nurse. The tests are available to school districts free of charge thanks to federal funding, according to Shelly Walker, spokesperson for the state Health Department, and provide results in just about twenty minutes.