Missouri
Classroom Technology
6 Lessons Learned About Better Teaching During the Pandemic
Educators who work in personalized learning schools are adjusting instruction for remote, hybrid, and in-person learning.
States
Educational Opportunities and Performance in Missouri
This Quality Counts 2020 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.
Reading & Literacy
More Than Phonics: How to Boost Comprehension for Early Readers
Learning how to decode words is essential to becoming a reader. But building a strong vocabulary and knowledge-base is crucial as well.
School & District Management
What Principals Learn From Roughing It in the Woods
In three days of rock climbing, orienteering, and other challenging outdoor experiences, principals get to examine their own—and others’—strengths and weaknesses as leaders.
Equity & Diversity
Call for Racial Equity Training Leads to Threats to Superintendent, Resistance from Community
Controversy over an intiative aimed a reducing inequities in Lee's Summit, Mo., schools led the police department to provide security protection for the district's first African-American superintendent. Now the school board has reversed course.
IT Management
Q&A: How to Bolster Cybersecurity in Your Schools
Melissa Tebbenkamp, the director of instructional technology for the Raytown Quality Schools near Kansas City, says her district's biggest cybersecurity risk is "ourselves." She outlines what it takes to teach educators how to help protect schools and districts against cyberattacks.
Data
Kansas City Data-Sharing Effort Showcases Ballmer Group's Strategy
A $59 million investment in software developer Social Solutions aims to ease the flow of data among schools and social service providers.
States
Educational Opportunities and Performance in Missouri
This Quality Counts 2019 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.
Federal
To Show That Elections Matter, This Teacher Is Running for Office
In a civics lesson come to life, this Missouri high school government teacher is running for state legislature.
States
Missouri's State Board Hasn't Met Since January. With Governor Gone, What Now?
Gov. Erik Greitens has resigned and the board doesn't have enough governor-appointed members to form a quorum. Important tasks have been piling up.
Student Well-Being
Opinion
Why Students Check Out (and How We Can Check Them Back In)
Our students hold the answers: We must take time to listen.
Special Education
Missouri Tackles Challenge of Dyslexia Screening, Services
New state mandates start next school year aimed at identifying and supporting students with dyslexia. The 2016 law also led to development of training for teachers.
School & District Management
Missouri Earns a C on State Report Card, Ranks 34th in Nation
This Quality Counts 2018 Highlights Report captures all the data you need to assess your state's performance on key educational outcomes.
School & District Management
Missouri Chief's Ouster Sparks Political, Legal Aftershocks
The state's Republican governor is in a pitched battle with the state's educators over the process he used to fire Missouri's commissioner of education.