This State-specific summary report serves as an assessment of Tennessee's annual Race to the Top implementation. The Year 3 report for Phase 1 and 2 grantees highlights successes and accomplishments, identifies challenges, and provides lessons learned from implementation from approximately September 2012 through September 2013. In Year 3, Tennessee's State assessment results show continued growth across grades and subjects, with particularly notable progress exceeding the State's Race to the Top targets in grades 3-8 and high school mathematics. The State's National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results also evidenced significant gains. Further, the State made progress closing achievement gaps, particularly in the 167 schools identified as Focus Schools based on significant achievement gaps in school year (SY) 2011-2012. In addition, the State transitioned its regional Field Service Centers to provide content-specific supports to local educational agencies (LEAs) and schools as Centers of Regional Excellence (COREs). While most of Tennessee's initiatives progressed on track in Year 3, the State continued to experience delays with implementing improvements to its data system to provide LEAs with an Early Warning Data System (EWDS) and in making pre-kindergarten through higher education (P-20) data publicly available. Student achievement results in some STEM Platform Schools were not as positive as the State anticipated, and the State is analyzing what school features, learning approaches, or other factors may be contributing to results. A glossary is included. [For "Race to the Top. Tennessee Report. Year 2: School Year 2011-2012. [State-Specific Summary Report]," see ED539244.]