This blog highlights key takeaways from the Missouri Students’ Postsecondary Access Report. the test.

Missouri’s 2022 legislative session begins next month, and already more than 120 education-related bills have been pre-filed. Some of pre-filed bills have recurring themes from bills offered in past sessions, some are inspired by current events, and several others offer specific strategies for supporting student and school success.

In this blog, we highlight three key areas that should be considered when the virtual classroom is used as a learning environment for students with disabilities.

In this blog, we draw attention to three key takeaways from the Middle schools receiving top PRiME Growth Scores released in the Missouri Statewide Student Growth Report.

In this blog, we draw attention to three key takeaways from the eleMiddle schools receiving top PRiME Growth Scores released in the Missouri Statewide Student Growth Report.

In this blog, we draw attention to three key takeaways from the elementary schools receiving top PRiME Growth Scores released in the Missouri Statewide Student Growth Report.

The 2021 Missouri legislative session wrapped on May 14. Despite several bills being proposed and debated around preK-12 education, only HB349 made it to the governor’s desk. Read on to learn more about Missouri’s Empowerment Scholarships program.

Today, we’re publishing our second 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 Jackson, Cass, Clay, and Platte counties.

Today, we’re publishing our second 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, Jefferson County, and St. Charles County.

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In this blog, we offer a snapshot of our deeper analysis of school discipline disparities in Missouri.

The state legislature is back in session and ready to debate a variety of education topics. Here, we provide a list of PRiME research items related to the bills that were pre-filed and expected for debate during the 2021 session.

Following the COVD-19 shutdown in Spring 2020 and new state Senators and Representatives set to be sworn on January 6, this is sure to be an active session in the state legislature. In this blog we preview the pre-filed bills and potential debates over education-related laws here in the Show-Me-State.

The PRiME Center is pleased to share the 2020 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 2020 profile

In this blog, we give a preview of the results shown in our new evidence primer on the Community Eligibility Provision.

The PRiME Center is pleased to announce that Emily Cupito has joined as Managing Director. In this role, Emily will work closely with the Director of Research and Evaluation, the Center’s affiliated professors, postdoctoral researchers, and graduate students to conduct and share policy-relevant research on education in Missouri. Emily will also focus on outreach to school and district leaders, policymakers, and education stakeholders, ensuring they have access to evidence they need to make pressing decisions. Here, Emily shares her personal vision for how research can influence education policy and practice.

As the PRiME Center created its list of resources for discussing and teaching anti-racism, we also reached out to multiple school and district leaders in the St. Louis region for their views on how they approach anti-racism in their schools. Here, we share information on some of the efforts, tools, and policies these leaders have implemented to make their schools more inclusive and equitable.

This blog explores the potential of regional collaborations in addressing COVID-19 public health concerns and inequities across school districts.

There are growing concerns from teachers and families about school reopening. Yet as school districts are finalizing their reopening plans to ease the stress of the community, they are doing so without straightforward recommendations from the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE).