Academic Performance

The annual award is given to schools with high academic achievement or those that perform at high levels while serving a significant proportion of disadvantaged students.

The inaugural program held monthly workshops for parents and caregivers to learn how to best support their students.

In the past year, Principia, which has 300 students, has bested much larger schools like Boston University and the University of Texas at Dallas.

States are raising the bar of academic standards for measuring students’ learning, according to a report from federal education researchers — but that bar…

The Illinois State Board of Education has released its 2016 report cards analyzing how well the state’s public schools are educating its students.Results…

A new study shows low-income children in Missouri will have a harder time getting ahead compared with their wealthier peers than those in past decades.The…

The University of Missouri is expanding an early alert system that tracks academic performance to all four of its campuses this fall.The system, developed…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon: Missouri is moving ahead with developing a system to evaluate how well teachers are doing their jobs,…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Sept 13, 2012 - The Chicago teachers’ strike has once again thrown our educational system into the…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Dec. 7, 2011 - Saint Louis University has notified members of its faculty that it plans to shut down…