Featured Education Story
March 21, 2019The festival's eclectic energy is carrying over to its home city, in many different ways. We trace some of them.
K-12 News
March 20, 2019Knoxville’s Bill Dunn shepherds Gov. Bill Lee’s Education Savings Accounts bill over its first legislative hurdle.
March 19, 2019Lonsdale, Adrian Burnett and a new northwest building will be in the capital plan presented to the school board.
March 14, 2019The Legislature gears up for Gov. Bill Lee’s proposals to broaden charter authorization and school vouchers.
March 7, 2019After nearly being shut down two months ago, Career Magnet Academy reports a surge in applications.
February 18, 2019Knox County School administrators have been struggling to complete a new strategic plan for nearly a year. Now the school board is taking over.
Colleges and University News
March 18, 2019A national report (with a Tennessee co-chair) charts a decline in civic engagement. It also offers some solutions.
March 15, 2019Boyd announces UT Promise, a privately endowed scholarship to make the state university free for lower-income students.
March 11, 2019In response to J.D. Vance’s ‘Hillbilly Elegy,’ regional writers stake a claim to political and cultural diversity in the Southern mountains.
March 4, 2019The UT Board of Trustees approves a plan to change how student activity fees are distributed, potentially shutting down funding to Sex Week.
February 28, 2019After a career building public-private connections, Tom Rogers prepares to take the reins at UT’s research park.
