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.
What does it mean to be ‘rural?’
The definition of rural varies depending on the source. In today’s blog post, we discuss common definitions of “rural,” when they are best used, and why picking the right definition matters.
Urban Renewal’s Educational Legacy: Black Displacement and School Segregation from Mill Creek to Pruitt-Igoe
This research was presented at the Mapping Spaces, Embodying Territories 2025 Conference at Saint Louis University on April 4, 2025.