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.
President-Elect Trump has repeatedly stated his desire to close the U.S. Department of Education and return education back to the...
A version of this commentary appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Trust is foundational to any healthy school learning community. This...
Several years ago, I made an interesting discovery—I had been blocked by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education...
Marching to the beat of your own drummer is all good and well as long as you know where you’re...
A recent Washington Post article making the rounds on social media claims that there are widespread teacher shortages across the...
Do you remember the feeling you’d get as a student, when the teacher was handing back exams—especially when you weren’t...
Every year, the policy journal Education Next polls a representative sample of Americans about their views on education issues. Their...
The following is taken from a presentation given by Show-Me Institute Distinguished Fellow of Education Policy James Shuls on February...
After the pigs got clearing for takeoff and the weather reports from Hell came back with a temperature below 32...
Attention opponents of Common Core in Missouri: We won. You petitioned the state legislature and were successful in gaining the...
The release of the scores from the 2015 MAP test a few weeks ago has brought with it new discussion...
How many times has someone said “just do the math?” Unfortunately, too many children in Missouri are likely to respond...
Technology has given us some amazing things over the years, but you don’t see people using VHS and cassette tapes...
Yesterday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch released an editorial titled, “Republicans continue to peddle the Common Core lie.” A more appropriate...
Although the Show-Me Institute typically focuses on state-level education policy issues, discussions regarding the controversial Elementary and Secondary Education Act...
Last week, Time Magazine released an article titled “Teachers Unions Are Putting Themselves On November’s Ballot,” which reported that the...
You may have heard of Common Core–the Common Core State Standards–but what are these standards for primary education and are...
In previous posts on the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), I’ve written about the consequences of federal overreach, which, in itself,...
When Americans think of federal overreach in education, they might think of programs like Race to the Top, Common Core,...
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