Our shared goal is to improve P-20 education for all students in the Kansas City metropolitan area by providing powerful tools for data-driven educational policy research, evaluation, and implementation.
The purpose of this project is to explore some of the challenges facing data collection and analysis across multiple school districts and two states, as well as present the value of such research to school districts. An analysis of assessment … Continue reading
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Superintendents ranked this study of the teaching workforce in the Kansas City area as the second most important KC-AERC research focus in 2009. There are few reliable regional or national studies that document the number of newly credentialed teachers, the … Continue reading
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Understanding the factors that make for a successful transition to post-secondary training is critically important to regional economic development, which depends on a highly educated workforce. To this end, these pilot research studies were created to examine the dynamics of … Continue reading
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The research team is working on producing increasingly reliable estimates of school level added value for all schools in Missouri with students in grades 3-8. (High school value-added measures are in development). Kansas City district schools’ data clearly shows above-average … Continue reading
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