Susan Pendergrass speaks with James V. Shuls about his upcoming paper on character education. James V. Shuls is the director […]
Susan Pendergrass speaks with Kansas Policy Institute president James Franko about KPI’s upcoming event “Heartland Hybrid and Micro Schools Summit […]
A version of the following letter appeared on Lakeexpo.com. There is probably no better opportunity for municipalities to share services […]
The Show-Me Institute has added 2021–22 finance data to the MOSchoolRankings.org website. Now users can see two years of detailed […]
The 2001 music video for “Weapon of Choice,” a big beat, electronic song by Fatboy Slim (with Bootsy Collins), featured […]
The Show-Me Institute has added 2021–22 academic data to the MOSchoolRankings.org website. Now, users can see three years of academic […]
It’s no secret that Medicaid costs are through the roof. But what if I told you there’s a federal program […]
According to the Missouri Independent, a “Blue ribbon commission on teacher recruitment” told the “state board of education that educators […]
Around the country, states are considering implementing policies that would hold back a larger number of 3rd graders who are […]
Yesterday I wrote about an interview I did with KMBC 9 on the Royals’ latest announcement that they had new […]
This week, the Kansas City Royals unveiled their latest renderings for two potential new stadia sites—one in Kansas City proper, […]
If they knew they didn’t have to, would anyone do paperwork? Over the past few months, I’ve talked a lot […]
In 1983, the Reagan administration released the results of a nationwide evaluation of America’s education system in a report titled […]
Recently, DESE released the preliminary results of the 2023 Missouri Assessment Program (MAP), and the results were bad enough to […]
New beginnings are in the air in Missouri. Some families are sending their children off to college for the first […]
David Stokes, James Shuls, and Avery Frank join Zach Lawhorn to discuss “innovation waivers”, the school choice movement internationally, the […]
Susan Pendergrass speaks with Ashley Berner about the importance of pluralism in education, how different countries think about pluralism in […]
In addition to declining enrollment, public education in Missouri has another serious problem—chronic absenteeism. Schools have been reopened for two […]
In my prior post about property assessments and taxes in Missouri, I highlighted a few things we can do immediately […]
Chris Braunlich is the former Co-President and CEO of the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy, Virginia’s non-partisan public policy […]
