Avery Frank

Avery Frank earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics (with honors) and political science from Sewanee: University of the South in 2022. He also studied at the London School of Economics in 2021 and was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa and Pi Sigma Alpha Honor Societies. His research interests include education policy and energy policy.

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Education | ARTICLE | September 11, 2025

Third-Grade Retention and Early Literacy Policies

By Avery Frank | Read Time 2 min

Education | POLICY BRIEF | September 11, 2025

Third-Grade Retention and Early Literacy Policies

By Avery Frank | Read Time 2 min

EPA standards, greenhouse gases, environmental regulation, endangerment finding, the EPA

Economy | ARTICLE | August 28, 2025

The EPA Continues to Review Carbon Emissions Standards

By Avery Frank | Read Time 3 min

Economy | ARTICLE | August 28, 2025

Missouri’s Nuclear Opportunity with Avery Frank

By Avery Frank | Episode Length 6 min

MAP testing, Missouri reading scores, early literacy reforms, childhood reading, reading to learn, third grade retention

Education | ARTICLE | August 20, 2025

Missouri’s Stagnant Reading Scores

By Avery Frank | Read Time 2 min

Nuclear energy, big tech, energy security, energy reliability, Missouri CWIP law, Amazon, Google

State and Local Government | ARTICLE | August 19, 2025

Connecting Nuclear Energy’s Past and Present: Guiding Missouri’s Future

By Avery Frank | Read Time 1 min

Nuclear energy, big tech, energy security, energy reliability, Missouri CWIP law, Amazon, Google

Business Climate | REPORT | August 19, 2025

Connecting Nuclear Energy’s Past and Present: Guiding Missouri’s Future

By Avery Frank | Read Time 1 min

MOScholars, tax-credit scholarships, the OBBB, education choice, scholarship-granting organizations, SGOs

Education | ARTICLE | August 14, 2025

What the New Federal K-12 Tax Credit Program Could Mean for Missouri

By Avery Frank | Read Time 2 min

Department of Education, funding freeze, Missouri education, Missouri budget

Education | ARTICLE | July 18, 2025

A Freeze in July?

By Avery Frank | Read Time 3 min

Nuclear power plants, nuclear power, Missouri energy policy, executive orders, New York nuclear energy

Economy | ARTICLE | July 14, 2025

What Could New Executive Orders on Nuclear Mean for Missouri?

By Avery Frank | Read Time 4 min

Economy | ARTICLE | June 19, 2025

Mission Impossible and Nuclear Energy: President Trump’s New Executive Orders

By Avery Frank | Read Time 3 min

Students reading in classroom, three-cueing reading, reading education, phonics instruction, SB 68 Missouri

Education | ARTICLE | June 17, 2025

Missouri Moves Away from Three-Cueing

By Avery Frank | Read Time 3 min

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