Without Consequences for Failing Schools, Students Lose
A high-school diploma is supposed to mean something. A student who earns one should be ready to attend college or...
2018 Blueprint: Course Access
THE PROBLEM: All across Missouri, students lack access to higher-level coursework such as AP courses, calculus, and physics. THE SOLUTION:...
Attendance Matters: Following Up with Riverview Gardens
A little over a month ago, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that two administrators from Riverview Gardens filed separate lawsuits...
State ESSA Plan Offers Opportunity for Course Access
Earlier this month the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education released a draft of its plan to comply with the...
Attacking Charter Schools with “Alternative Facts”
In a recent letter to the editor of the Joplin Globe, Caroline Tubbs, a public high school teacher, makes a...
Repealing a Mountain of Regulation with This One Simple Trick
Last week, the U.S. Senate voted 50-49 to strike hundreds of pages of regulations drafted by the Department of Education...
Course Access in Missouri, Updated
A little more than a year ago, Brittany Wagner and I published a paper titled “Course Access in Missouri: Diversity,...
Is This What Full Accreditation Looks Like?
On Tuesday morning, the Missouri Board of Education voted unanimously to grant full accreditation to the St. Louis Public School...
The NAACP’s Misguided Opposition to Charter Schools
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) passed a resolution on October 15 calling for a nationwide...
Breaking Out of the Public Education Box
What does student success look like to you? That was one of the questions asked last week at the eighth...
Statewide MAP Results Are Out, and They Don’t Look Great
Do you remember the feeling you’d get as a student, when the teacher was handing back exams—especially when you weren’t...
Teacher Licensure Screens Will Not Improve Public Education
The problem with bad public policy is that it often sounds like good public policy. These ideas have enough of...
Should Saint Louis Raise Property Taxes for Public Schools?
What do you call nearly $15,000 per pupil? If you’re the Saint Louis Public School System, you call it “not...
Missouri’s Latest Report Card: C-
The National Center for Education Statistics recently released the latest assessment scores for all 50 states. Missouri ranks in the...
Saint Louis teachers want a raise, and they have a point
On Friday, the Post-Dispatch covered a recent Saint Louis school board meeting where over 100 teachers vociferously argued for a...
Size No Barrier to School District Consolidation
By most academic measures, the Show-Me State usually performs near the middle of the pack, rarely cracking the top 25 in...
Do the Math?
How many times has someone said “just do the math?” Unfortunately, too many children in Missouri are likely to respond...
Is there evidence of a “teacher exodus” from Kansas?
If you take the media’s account of the state of the teaching profession in Kansas seriously, you’d think that there...
New Website May Open Doors for More Educational Choice
Before I spend money on anything, I check out the reviews. Websites like Fandango, Yelp, and Hotels.com ensure that consumers...
Kauffman Foundation Releases New Education Data Tool
Are you looking for a new school for your child? Are you curious to know how your child’s school stacks...
