UPDATES ON EDUCATION RESEARCH AND POLICY

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We want to help lawmakers, educators, and families make decisions about education by providing updates on national, regional and Missouri-specific research. While we strive to be objective, we want to facilitate discussion and will occasionally offer our own views on this blog.

 
 
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Charter Schools 101

In this blog, we’re offering an answer to the question, “What is a charter school?” We’ve got some definitions and descriptions of Missouri’s charter school law

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Missouri's Student Transfer Law

This week, we’re looking at the affects of a district losing accreditation, with a look back at the Missouri transfer program.

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Missouri's Visiting Scholar Program

This week, we’re looking at the Visiting Scholar Certificate, designed to allow those with professional experience an opportunity to teach in Missouri’s schools.

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Education in the Missouri Bootheel

Today, we’re publishing our first Bottheel Regional Profile. Inside, you’ll find information on students, spending, and teachers in the traditional public school districts in Dunklin, Mississippi, New Madrid, Pemiscot, Scott, and Stoddard Counties in the Missouri Bootheel.

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Summer Break - A Win or Loss for Learning?

In this week’s blog, we examine the research on summer learning loss and the importance of the summer in helping to close the achievement gap between students of varying socioeconomic backgrounds.

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Missouri General Assembly End-of-Session Wrap Up

The Missouri General Assembly ended the 2019 session having passed several education bills while leaving others on the table. In this week’s blog, we take a look at some of the new education initiative that passed and those that failed, but will likely be back next session.

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Education in Greater Kansas City

Today, we’re publishing our first annual Kansas City Regional Profile. Inside, you’ll find information on students, spending, and teachers in the traditional public school and public charter school districts in the greater Kansas City region.

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Education in the St. Louis Region

Today, we’re publishing our first annual St. Louis Regional Profile. Inside, you’ll find information on students, spending, and teachers in the traditional public school and public charter school districts in St. Louis City and County.

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The Future of Missouri's Workforce

In this blog we explore various legislative proposals to address the workforce needs in Missouri, including HB 225, “Fast-Track Workforce Incentive Grant.”

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Welcome to PRiME!

Today marks the official beginning of the PRiME Center (Policy Research in Missouri Education) at Saint Louis University. Our aim is to contribute research and analysis that informs education policy decisions in Missouri.

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2019 Missouri Education Profile

The PRiME Center is pleased to share the 2019 Missouri Education Profile, presenting a 30,000 foot overview of Missouri’s schools and students and the resources supporting them. In this blog you’ll find a brief description of the information in the 2019 profile

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