Sarah Morris

211 Graduate Education Building
College of Education and Health Professions
Fayetteville, AR 72701
srm041@uark.edu

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Sarah graduated from King University as a volleyball student-athlete with a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and a minor in Secondary Education. She then graduated from East Tennessee State University with a Masters in Education in Advanced Secondary Education. She has 5 years of teaching experience as an 8th grade mathematics teacher in East Tennessee, was the Junior High's Project-Based Learning Instructor to advanced, non-traditional learners doing various community service projects, and was an organizer for her school system's downtown beautification art and poetry competition. In 2020, she conducted a classroom study on the effects of Specifications Grading in the K-12 setting. She joined the Office for Education Policy team in the summer of 2021, researching the predictive powers of 9^th grade GPAs. Sarah continues her work with Dr. Sarah McKenzie on Arkansas's ninth-grade course failures, Freshman Success Reports, fairer grading, and ninth-grade students' building configurations. Her research interests include grading practices and Arkansas's ninth grade students.