The Missouri P-20 Education Policy Research Center, housed within the Harry S Truman School of Public Affairs at the University of Missouri, is a campus-wide collaboration dedicated to rigorous research on student learning and education policy.

The Center is comprised of education researchers from a variety of academic specialties and methodological orientations who are committed to the use of empirical evidence to inform debate and decision-making surrounding education policy issues in Missouri.

A primary goal of the Center is to promote the use of longitudinal student-level data spanning students’ early childhood, K-12 and higher education experiences to answer complex policy questions that have applicability to education decisions in Missouri and beyond.