Join us on Thursday, October 2nd at the Blount Mansion Visitors Center for the

book launch for Report Card Nation by Charles E. Smith!

Charles E. Smith began his career as a newspaper editor in Sparta, Tennessee, and later served in leadership roles at both the University of Tennessee and the Tennessee Board of Regents. In 1987, he joined Governor Ned McWherter’s cabinet as commissioner of education. After thirty-two years in Tennessee state government, Smith served six years as executive director of the National Assessment Governing Board during the George W. Bush administration.

In Report Card Nation, Charles E. Smith offers an insider’s perspective on a pivotal moment in American education reform. In 2003, under the mandate of President George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind initiative, Smith and a team of public servants brought the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)—also known as the Nation’s Report Card—to the forefront of federal education policy. Once a respected but relatively obscure measure, the NAEP quickly became the primary tool for assessing the successes and failures of public education across the country.

Smith’s clear-eyed, well-researched narrative provides an essential look at how national policy shaped local realities, and how one of the most controversial periods in public education still reverberates today.

Purchase the book here: https://utpress.org/title/report-card-nation/

• The special speaking event will be at Blount Mansion Visitors Center, 200 West Hill Avenue, Knoxville TN 37902.
• Limited free parking onsite
• $10 Donation suggested at the door, Cash and Card accepted
• RSVP to Rose@BlountMansion.org

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