What works in Chattanooga
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Evidence snapshot for Chattanooga
EPB Chattanooga's smart-grid programme reduced customer outage minutes by 40–60% and generated roughly $26.8 million per year in avoided outage costs under normal conditions, with a University of Tennessee study crediting the fibre-and-smart-grid combination with $2.69 billion in total community benefit and 9,516 jobs over its first decade. Chattanooga's 140-acre downtown Innovation District, built on EPB's public gigabit fibre network, attracted roughly $480 million in private downtown construction investment by 2015, though evidence of firm growth and job creation is mostly descriptive rather than counterfactual. The evidence also documents significant gentrification risks: ZIP code 37408 (Southside) experienced the second-fastest gentrification rate in the US between 2000 and 2010, with the white share rising from 7.2% to 45.9%, underscoring the need for inclusion and housing safeguards in digital-infrastructure-led development.
Drawn from: EPB Chattanooga — America's First Citywide Gig-Fibre Smart Grid · Chattanooga Innovation District — 140 Acres Built on Public Gigabit Fibre · One Click Away — A Two-Year Cluster RCT Finds Khanmigo Access Alone Doesn't Move the Needle in Tennessee · NUMI AI Math Tutor — A 6,997-Student Trial in Chattanooga, Tennessee Finds Modest, Mostly Post-Error Gains
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Evidence of learning impact +40 pts 67 here · 26 average
Multi-stakeholder collaboration +26 pts 100 here · 74 average
Innovation +21 pts 83 here · 62 average
Evidence of impact / measured results +9 pts 67 here · 57 average
Weaknesses
Inclusiveness / equity -9 pts 33 here · 43 average
Scalability -12 pts 50 here · 62 average
Equity & inclusion -33 pts 17 here · 50 average
Teacher capability & pedagogy -37 pts 0 here · 37 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Chattanooga. Grey bar: peer average across the corpus. Both on a common 0–100 scale.
Points compare this place's average on each dimension with the average across all evaluated places, on a common 0–100 scale. Know more
Top good practices here
EPB Chattanooga — America's First Citywide Gig-Fibre Smart Grid · 81
Chattanooga Innovation District — 140 Acres Built on Public Gigabit Fibre · 57
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Recommended to adopt or replicate
Transferable practices from elsewhere that address this place's gaps.
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- Rated highly transferable
- Addresses this place's weak dimensions
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- Rated highly transferable
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- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
Already adopted in 3 other places
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- Rated highly transferable
- Backed by strong evidence
Already adopted in 4 other places
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- Backed by strong evidence
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- Backed by strong evidence
Digital Green — Video-Mediated Agricultural Extension · fit 100/100
- Backed by strong evidence
Kartu Prakerja – National Digital Skills and Financial Inclusion Programme · fit 100/100
- Backed by strong evidence
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