In many school districts around Missouri, there are Career and Technical education opportunities for high school students, totally free of cost, and these programs have been shown to have positive outcomes for the students that enroll in them.

This past month, EdWeek released the first of three parts in its annual Quality Counts series. We take a look at how Missouri measures up nationally on the Chance for Success Index, what led to our grade, and what this means in context.

Magnet schools in St. Louis and Kansas City were initially created as part of court-ordered desegregation plans and were intended to help racially integrate the state’s two largest metro regions. In this blog, we take a look at the history and demographics of magnet schools in St. Louis and Kansas City and the role they play in these districts today.

The Governor mentioned teacher pay in his 2020 “State of the State” but did not include a teacher pay increase in his proposed budget, thus leaving open the question of whether a teacher pay raise is a priority this legislative session.

The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education released data on school-level per-pupil expenditures for the first time this year. Here, we take a look at how school-level spending relates to school and student characteristics, as well as student growth and achievement.

The most recent Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) results are in and we can see how 15-year-olds in the U.S. performed relative to similar students in 78 other countries. Here, we take a look at the results and show why they should be viewed in the context of other assessments instead of as the only measuring stick of academic progress.

Pre-filed legislation in the Missouri House of Representatives and Senate for the 2020 session is in. There are 23 Senate bills and 37 House bills related to education, with topics ranging from teaching cursive to who can authorize a charter school. Here, we give a quick look at the bills that have been filed.

In 2017, the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) established the “Trauma-Informed Schools Initiative,” requiring DESE to provide information to schools about what it means to be trauma-informed. This blog will provide information on Trauma-Informed schools and tools, such as restorative practices, schools can use to be trauma-informed.

Seventy percent of Missouri’s traditional school districts are rural. This blog takes a big picture look at Missouri’s rural and other districts, education in rural Missouri, and the need for further research on rural education in light of the requirements of the federal Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).

The NAEP gives us a common measure for state performance every two years. This time around, Missouri students struggled, especially in 4th grade reading. Read our blog to see our NAEP takeaways.

ACT results for the class of 2019 are in. We had an increase in average scores, but we had fewer students participate this time around. Read on to see how that impacts results.

This week’s blog is Part II of our series on Missouri APR scores. We highlight three additional takeaways from the preliminary APR release, with a particular focus on overall and subgroup growth.

This week’s blog examines the growth of the four-day school week across the country and in Missouri. We discuss evidence of its effectiveness and implications for Missouri education policy.

The latest blog from PRiME discusses what we can learn from the all-new APR Summary Reports released today from the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) and links to a side-by-side comparison of 2018 and 2019 school and district data.

The latest blog from PRiME provides insight into the concept of wellness, how it relates to student achievement and success, and what Missouri schools are doing to address student wellness.

In this week’s blog, PRiME gives an overview of standards-based report cards, how they differ from letter grades, and examples of Missouri districts using them

In this blog we discuss the importance of school governance and how this differs in traditional public and charter public schools.

In this blog we take a dive into Missouri’s new computer science standards and how schools can choose to implement the standards at a local level.