UPDATES ON EDUCATION RESEARCH AND POLICY

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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Key Takeaways from NAEP Long-Term Trends: Technology Access

This blog emphasizes key takeaways from the 2022 NAEP LTT findings on remote learners’ technology access. We discuss these takeaways within the context of previous PRiME findings related to Missouri students’ technology access, given the prevalence of technology-based learning in schools over the last three academic years.

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Postsecondary Success: Exploring the Data

This blog is an introduction to our postsecondary success data tool. We highlight the information included and offer a description of the data that we used to conduct our analyses in the full report.

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2022 Missouri Legislative Session Conclusions

Missouri’s 2022 legislative wrapped up, and education bills made the way to the finish line. Some of the highlights include a shift in minimum teacher salary, legislation to remove lead from school drinking water, and charter school funding equity.

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2022 Missouri Legislative Session Preview

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.

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2021 Legislative Session: Wrap-up

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.

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2020 Kansas City Education Profile

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.

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2020 St. Louis Education Profile

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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2021 Legislative Session: What to Watch For

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.

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