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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....
NAEP 2022 Results
Volume 19, Issue 5October 26, 2022 This policy brief examines Arkansas’ 2022 results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and examines score gaps between student groups. NAEP...
NAEP Nuggets 2022
NAEP results were released today, and the unsurprising takeaway is that Arkansas’ scores declined. The declines generally track with those seen nationally. The NAEP tests are given to a sample of...
Most high school seniors are not college-ready
The recently released 11th grade ACT scores for Arkansas' current high school seniors show that only 1 in 5 members of the class of 2023 met the test's College-ready Benchmark in math, 1 in 4 met in...
Local Norms and Gifted Identification
Volume 19, Issue 4 September 28, 2022 In this policy brief, we summarize our research that examines if using local norms in the identification of Gifted and Talented students would increase the...
Would using local norms increase diversity in GT?
Gifted and Talented (G/T) programs, are often under pressure because G/T students do not mirror the demographic and programmatic characteristics of the general student population. The students...
Local Norms and G/T Identification
Volume 19, Issue 7 September 28, 2022 This report examines if using local norms in the identification of Gifted and Talented students would increase the demographic and programmatic diversity of G/T...
Student Discipline Report 2021
Today OEP is releasing the findings from the 2021 Arkansas Student Discipline Report. We identify trends and a number of key student outcomes related to student discipline in the Arkansas public...
2021 Arkansas Discipline Report
Volume 19, Issue 6 September 7, 2022 This report examines student discipline in Arkansas public schools. We identify trends, examine key student outcomes related to student discipline, and reflect...
What are parents thinking?
OEP administered a survey on education topics to a representative sample of 500 Arkansas parents of school-aged children that addressed a variety of education-related topics. We are so excited to...
A new school year, new data, and a new OEP website!
Welcome back to school! We hope that you are excited about seeing your students and looking forward to a year full of the joy of learning. Here at OEP, we are excited to be starting the school...
2020 Arkansas Discipline Report
Volume 18, Issue 10 September 30, 2021 This report examines student discipline in the Arkansas public schools. Using ten years of de-identified student- and infraction-level data from 2010-11 to...
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