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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Today’s Preliminary APR Release: What Can We Learn?

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.

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Student Wellness

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.

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Standards-Based Report Cards

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

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Missouri's CORE 42 Transfer Curriculum

In this week’s blog, we take a look at Missouri’s CORE 42 initiative that established the general education framework that all Missouri public two-year and four-year post-secondary institutions adopted in 2018-19.

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Grade-Level Configuration

In this blog, we take a look at different approaches to grade configuration and the new models in Normandy and Ferguson-Florissant.

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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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