Achievement gap

The local chapters want to improve literacy rates in the region, launching the "Right to Read" campaign with a mission to get children — especially Black children — proficient in fourth grade reading by 2030.

Lynn Weaks doesn’t have internet access at home. A smartphone, she said, “was basically all I had.”Her four children often stayed after school at Ashland…

How the Missouri education department measures student comprehension and school performance is complicated. The manual for determining a school’s…

Third-grader students who live in low-income homes underperformed their more well-off classmates by 50 percentage points in seven Illinois school…

Updated 2:38 p.m. March 30 with clarification from Education Cities organization: New data show that public schools in St. Louis and some area suburbs…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Aug. 27, 2013 - “What we’re after is the causes for the failure in unaccredited districts, then what…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Aug. 20, 2012 - 'Tis the season for school. Classes are starting. Supplies have been purchased. It’s…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, May 4, 2012 - Data available for the first time have confirmed what officials in charge of the area’s…

This first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Feb. 21, 2012 - Update on earlier story: Missouri education officials today filed their application for the…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Feb. 16, 2012 - With the first 10 states winning waivers from Washington from the mandates of No…