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The Scopes trial, formally The State of Tennessee v.John Thomas Scopes, and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case from July 10 to July 21, 1925, in which a high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it illegal for teachers to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. [1]
An elementary school teacher and assistant principal are facing charges. Where do Middle Tennessee districts stand on corporal punishment.
A disgraced Tennessee middle school teacher whimpered after being slapped with a four-year prison sentence for placing a camera in a girls’ locker room and filming up one student’s skirt.
The Tennessean again asked principals, teachers and guidance counselors from across Tennessee to participate in our new Student of the Week program by sending nominations for their top male and ...
Its goal was to set up schools for freed slaves in Union-controlled districts in the western states. It was most active in Tennessee, where, in 1865, its 123 white teachers provided manual and domestic training as well as academic instruction. There were 1949 students in Memphis and over 300 in Clarksville.
According to U.S. News & World Report, in 2014 the school possessed a 20:1 student teacher ratio with 1,868 students and 92 teachers. Sixty-three percent of students were classified as "minority" and sixty-five percent were considered "economically disadvantaged". It is the most diverse high school in the state.
In 2014, the Tennessee Preservation Trust placed the original Grundy County school building on its list of the ten most "endangered" historic sites in Tennessee. [21] On March 29, 2019, a fire destroyed a building that housed executive offices at the Highlander Center.
A Tennessee 10-year-old was expelled from school for a full year after he pointed his finger in the shape of a gun and made mock "machine gun" noises, according to a ProPublica investigation.