Chattanooga Magazine

• Identical twin coaches inspire Chattanooga students May 19, 2023
  Identical twins Christian and Christoffer Collins have made a profound impact at the Chattanooga Preparatory School. The Collins brothers have become beloved figures at the school and have left a lasting impression on their students, colleagues and the community at large. Christoffer serves as the varsity basketball head coach and 8th/9th grade physical education teacher, […]
• The next Austin? This booming city in Tennessee is about to take a leap into quantum networking May 18, 2023
  By Jon Swartz  Before it became the country’s first “gig city,” Chattanooga, Tenn., moved at a languid pace — if it moved at all. “In the late ’80s and early ’90s, Chattanooga was a dying city of industrial companies leaving,” said Mayor Tim Kelly, a Chattanooga native who was reluctant to come home after attending […]
• Factors that contributed to the record low history scores for US eighth graders May 18, 2023
  When national student test scores revealed recently that knowledge of U.S. history and civics had reached an all-time low, one Republican lawmaker described the drop as an “outright failure that should concern every parent across the country.” The test scores showed that 86% of America’s eighth graders were not proficient in U.S. history, and 79% […]