Susan Pendergrass speaks with Dr. Jim Wyckoff about how national test scores, especially for the lowest-performing students, began falling well before the pandemic and what states can do to reverse the trend.
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), often called the Nation’s Report Card, is the gold standard for measuring academic...
The education system often fails to communicate honestly with students, parents, and community members about how much students are actually...
As part of the dramatic cuts at the U.S. Department of Education under the Trump administration’s DOGE program, the entire...
Susan Pendergrass speaks with Nat Malkus, senior fellow and deputy director of education policy at AEI, about the troubling 2024...
Susan Pendergrass speaks with Chester (Checker) Finn, Distinguished Senior Fellow and President Emeritus at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, about...
Test scores on the Nation’s Report Card were released on January 29th, and Missouri faces a dire future if we...
Do you think students should get promoted to the next grade if they do not understand grade-level material? There are...
Recently, I came across a fascinating paper from Matthew Kraft of Brown University and Sarah Novicoff of Stanford University about...
Add Alabama to the growing list of states that let parents take their state education dollars to the school of...
Around the country, states are considering implementing policies that would hold back a larger number of 3rd graders who are...
Around the nation, students are struggling to read, and Missouri students are no different. In 2022, the National Assessment of...
A month ago, the Missouri Tigers rolled into Neyland Stadium to face the high-flying Tennessee Volunteers. While the Tigers should...
I still find myself thinking about the Missouri Commissioner of Education’s vague comments following Missouri’s dismal scores on the National...
Reviewing the recent release of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is an ideal way to get into the...
The 2022 scores on the Nation’s Report Card (or NAEP), a test administered every other year by the U.S. Department...
If I polled one hundred Missourians on which state they thought had the best early literacy policies in the nation,...
Our nation is in the midst of a battle over free speech, the right to protest, and what differentiates a...
If you want to find out how Missouri students are performing, you might think you could go to the Department...
At a recent legislative forum hosted in Boone County by the Missouri State Teachers Association, state lawmakers debated the merits...
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