It seems “proficient” actually means something in Missouri’s annual math and reading tests.

In a report released today, the National Center for Education Statistics called Missouri’s testing standards some of the most rigorous in the nation.

The study, “Mapping State Proficiency Standards…

Contrary to (early) popular belief, Missouri is aiming to participate in the first round of the federal $4.3 billion Race to the Top competition.

Yes, new education Commissioner Chris Nicastro told the Missouri legislature’s Joint Committee on Education last month that…

We’ve been up to our eyeballs this week in Missouri test score data here in the education reporter’s corner of the newsroom.  We had access to the scores early Monday morning; the public had access after midnight on Wednesday.  Education…

Fourteen Missouri school districts, including St. Louis Public, Ferguson-Florissant and Wellston schools, will get more than $4 million total in stimulus grants for technology in the classroom and technology-based teaching.

Gov. Jay Nixon announced the grants today at St. Louis Public’s…

The Missouri state board of education announced today that it will hold a news conference Thursday morning to introduce the state’s new commissioner of education.

The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education has asked former commissioners of education, members of the…

One of the state’s largest teachers unions will sit down today with Missouri charter school leaders for the first time.

A committee of the 35,000-member Missouri National Education Association has decided to update its position on charters, the once-experimental independent public schools,…

It looks like the Riverview Gardens School District will have one more year to shape up.

The state department of education is set to recommend on Thursday that the north St. Louis County district get one more year to gain provisional…

Roughly 250 school evaluators will spread through hundreds of St. Louis Public School classrooms this week, all part of the state’s “comprehensive review” of the unaccredited district.

St. Louis Public and the state’s department of education will hold a press conference…

Two more charter schools have been cleared to open in St. Louis.

The state board yesterday approved an elementary, the Grand Community School, and a middle school, KIPP St. Louis.

Both schools aim to target at-risk students in predominantly minority areas.

Grand Community…

Now this is odd.

This afternoon, Washington D.C. consultants presented St. Louis County school district leaders with “the best knowledge available to date” on the federal stimulus package.

Two representatives from B & D Consulting, hired by St. Louis County, told roughly 50…