http://sunsite.utk.edu/wuot/mt/ en-us mpowell7@utk.edu 2011-10-06T13:54:42-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://wuot.org/mt/archives/2011/10/000684-tennessee_performance_pay_debate_overshadowed_by_evaluation_concerns.html (Teacher Gina Feldblum, far left, at a teacher town hall in Knoxville.) When Tennessee received $500 million in federal Race to the Top money, part of it was earmarked for a teacher merit pay system. The U-S Department of... 684@http://sunsite.utk.edu/wuot/mt/ General 2011-10-06T13:54:42-05:00 http://wuot.org/mt/archives/2011/09/000680-freedom_school_hopes_to_write_new_chapter_for_atrisk_students_part_one_of_a_series.html Students can lose up to two months' worth of skills over the summer, especially in reading and math. It's called "summer learning loss." Students back in class at low-income schools may be even further behind. But from the Southern... 680@http://sunsite.utk.edu/wuot/mt/ General 2011-09-20T11:11:14-05:00 http://wuot.org/mt/archives/2005/08/000185-oak_ridge_in_the_shadow_of_the_atom.html In August of 1945, residents of Oak Ridge, Tennessee learned that they were part of the most important secret in the history of science. Sixty years later, Oak Ridge is still a city of nuclear secrets. Oak Ridge: In the... 185@http://sunsite.utk.edu/wuot/mt/ General 2005-08-15T13:00:00-05:00