National Assessment of Educational Progress

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Accountability | MODEL POLICY | December 5, 2025

Model Policy: Early Literacy Reforms

By Cory Koedel and 1 more | Read Time 12 min

Education | ARTICLE | July 30, 2025

Understanding the Decline in Student Test Scores with Jim Wyckoff

By Susan Pendergrass | Read Time 11 min

Education | ARTICLE | July 9, 2025

What’s in a NAEP Score?

By Cory Koedel | Read Time 3 min

Education | ARTICLE | April 18, 2025

The Honesty Gap in Education

By Cory Koedel | Read Time 2 min

Empty classroom, Missouri education, accountability, DESE, Missouri State Board of Education, Missouri school accreditation

Education | ARTICLE | April 10, 2025

Don’t Throw the Baby Out with the Bathwater

By Susan Pendergrass | Read Time 2 min

Education | ARTICLE | February 6, 2025

NAEP 2024: Declining Scores and Rising Concerns with Nat Malkus

By Susan Pendergrass | Read Time 1 min

Education | ARTICLE | February 4, 2025

Patriotic Education or Federal Overreach? With Chester (Checker) Finn

By Susan Pendergrass | Read Time 1 min

Education | ARTICLE | January 29, 2025

Missouri Public Schools Have a Very Serious Reading Problem

By Susan Pendergrass | Read Time 2 min

Child reading, books, reading instruction, retention policy, phonics, student assessment, Missouri schools, Mississippi, 3rd graders

Education | ARTICLE | October 8, 2024

Should Missouri Consider a 3rd-Grade Retention Policy?

By Avery Frank | Read Time 3 min

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