Joseph Nichols — Policy Briefs database — PRiME Center

Policy Analysis: The Rise and Fall of Missouri’s Performance Assessments of Student Teachers

This policy brief chronicles the birth, adoption, and expiration of MoPTA and the educational policy dynamics that prevented the stable adoption of the assessment. We summarize our complete analysis which finds that MoPTA serves as an illustrative study for how teacher education policy delivery is formed and implemented within a network of interdependent actors.

TeachersSLU PRiMEJuly 15, 2021School of Education at Saint Louis UniversityJoseph Nichols, Alexander Cuenca, Andrew DiemerComment

The Road Back: St. Louis Public School Governance

In this policy brief, we take a look back at SLPS’s history moving into and back out of state oversight, how the district’s performance changed over this time period, how the approach in SLPS differs from other state takeovers, and how stability in district leadership provided a path forward for SLPS to return to its locally elected school board.

Governance, Saint LouisEvan RhinesmithApril 19, 2019School of Education at Saint Louis UniversityJoseph Nichols, Stacey Pries, Evan Rhinesmith

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