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Guest Reporter: Missouri Pilots Early Childhood Assessment Program This Fall
by Mary Jo Hackett Missouri is not losing ground in the nation’s race to educate its’ children. Instead, we are stagnant. We are treading water. We are mediocre. Rather than wallow in our failures, though, the Missouri State Board of Education met to discuss progress of a pilot program to pull us up by our … Continue reading
Kansas & Missouri Do Not Receive Federal Race to the Top Grants for Early Learning
Preschoolers in the Kansas City metropolitan area are among the losers in the Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge grant competition. Today the United States Department of Education named nine states as award winners, but Kansas and Missouri were not on the list. “Education must be our national mission,” President Barack Obama said in … Continue reading
