The View from the OEP Blog
Three Years Later: Arkansas Teacher Turnover During and After COVID-19
Andrew Camp, Gema Zamarro, and Josh McGee March 15th marks three years since then Governor Asa Hutchinson announced that public schools in Arkansas would close to prevent the spread of COVID-19....
Hot Topic: School Calendars
Kate Barnes & Sarah McKenzie There has been a lot of discussion about education in Arkansas lately. While we OEP folks like to think it's because of our work, the chatter is more likely due to...
Teacher Labor Market Research and the Arkansas LEARNS Act
Gema Zamarro, Josh McGee & Andrew Camp Education policy has been front and center since Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders took office, vowing to be an education governor. Over the past two weeks,...
OEP-EDRE Conference Materials and Teacher Workforce Snapshot
Sarah McKenzie, Josh McGee, Gema Zamarro, Andrew Camp & Taylor Wilson Last Thursday, the Office for Education Policy (OEP) and Department of Education Reform (EDRE) hosted a conference in Little...
Ninth-graders’ failure rate varies by school grade configuration
Today's blog is written with Sarah Morris, a Graduate Researcher in OEP and former junior high teacher. This winter, as ninth-graders return to their previous courses or transition to new ones, we...
Arkansas L.E.A.R.N.S. and OEP
There is a lot going on in our world of Arkansas education policy! We have a new Secretary of Education, Jacob Oliva, and Governor Sanders signed an executive order focused on literacy, empowerment,...
Beating the Odds Awards 2022
This week, OEP is thrilled to recognize Arkansas schools that are Beating the Odds! The final installment of this year's Outstanding Educational Performance awards, Beating the Odds award winners...
OEP Awards: 2022
This week, OEP is pleased to recognize Arkansas schools demonstrating Outstanding Educational Performance. OEP awards are different than other awards because we focus solely on student academic...
Bad Grades for Arkansas Schools
Letter Grades have been released for Arkansas schools, and the news isn't good. To put the grades in familiar terms, if we use the 4-point A-F scale to calculate a GPA for Arkansas' schools, it...
ESSA scores and Letter Grades are out!
In case you don't know, the annual school accountability (ESSA) scores and Letter Grades are available! You can find them for all schools here or look up individual schools at MySchoolInfo. This is...
What Would it Take for My School to Get an “A”?
Here at OEP, we get this question a lot! While we are waiting for ESSA scores and letter grades to be released later this month, we thought we would take the opportunity to dig into the data behind...
NAEP 2022: Digging Deeper
As we mentioned in our blog on Monday, results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) were released this week, and the unsurprising takeaway is that Arkansas’ scores declined....
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