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Beating the Odds: 2023!
Today, 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 serve...
Coming Soon: School Letter Grades!
School letter grades will be released soon, and here at OEP we wanted to share some information about what is included in the school letter grades, and what they mean for Arkansas's schools and...
Blue Ribbon Schools and Letter Grades
Today we learned that three Arkansas schools were named National Blue Ribbon Schools by the U.S. Department of Education. The annual recognition is given to schools based on academic performance, or...
NWA School Quality
September 6, 2023 This report examines school quality and access in NWA NWA Landscape Report NWA District Scorecards
Arkansas Freshman Success Report 2022
This report presents information about the state of freshman success in Arkansas. We provide the likelihoods of passing all courses based on a pooled analysis of 2020-21 and 2021-22 freshmen. The...
The “Best High Schools” for Arkansas students
Yesterday, U.S. News & World Report released their annual “Best High Schools” rankings. Here at the OEP, we want to make sure that you understand what the “Best” title is based on, and how this...
“Best Freshman Success”
This blog is written with Sarah Morris, a Graduate Researcher in OEP and former junior high teacher. If you’ve been following OEP research, you know that we care a lot about student success during...
In Absentia: Absence Policy and Freshman Failures
Today's blog is written with Sarah Morris, a Graduate Researcher in OEP and former junior high teacher. The first week of school can be exciting for students, but we all know that sooner or later,...
Analyzing Arkansas’s Course Credit and Unexcused Absence Policy
Volume 20, Issue 5 August 23, 2023 This report examines the implementation of absence policy regarding credit consequences. Analyzing Arkansas’s Course Credit and Unexcused Absence Policy...
Freshman Course Credit and Unexcused Absences
Volume 20, Issue 4 August 23, 2023 This report examines the implementation of unexcused absence policy and course credit consequences. Freshman Course Credit and Unexcused Absences...
Updated 2022 Report Cards
If you downloaded the NWA or Pulaski County report cards released on Wednesday, please re-download as the Achievement Percentiles for middle schools in the school-level tables for the large...
2022 Report Cards
Today we are pleased to release the 2022 report cards for NWA and Pulaski County schools. These report cards provide an easy-to-understand overview of how students in the area schools performed in...
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