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Education | ARTICLE | September 11, 2025

Third-Grade Retention and Early Literacy Policies

By Avery Frank | Read Time 2 min

Grading, school grades, equitable grading, grade inflation

Education | ARTICLE | September 3, 2025

Most Teachers Don’t Like Equitable Grading Practices Either

By Scott Tanner | Read Time 2 min

Education | ARTICLE | August 29, 2025

We Shouldn’t Pay Teachers for Master’s Degrees

By Cory Koedel | Read Time 2 min

Education | ARTICLE | August 22, 2025

What the Media Gets Wrong About School Choice with Matthew Ladner

By Susan Pendergrass | Episode Length 10 min

Teachers' unions, school boards, school board elections, democratic accountability, voter turnout, off-cycle elections

Education | ARTICLE | August 21, 2025

Does Democratic Accountability Work in Public Education?

By Cory Koedel | Read Time 3 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

Education | ARTICLE | August 18, 2025

Faith-Based Charter Schools and the Future of School Choice with Andy Smarick

By Susan Pendergrass | Episode Length 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

Education | ARTICLE | August 12, 2025

Let’s Celebrate (and learn from) State Tech, One of the Best Technical Colleges in the Country

By Cory Koedel | Read Time 3 min

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