On-going projects:

• Missouri School Improvement Program. The Missouri School Improvement Program reviews and accredits Missouri's school districts and promotes the development of school improvement projects.
   
• Missouri Educational Indicators Project. OSEDA supports the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education's data warehouse of key educational indicators to help describe the progress Missouri's schools are making to better serve their students.
   
• Kids Count Missouri (KCM)  provides an annual report on the status of children in Missouri by county. KCM is a partnership of the Children's Trust Fund, the University of Missouri's Office of Social and Economic Data Analysis and Citizens for Missouri's Children. Its mission is to improve the well-being of Missouri's children by increasing the visibility of the condition of children in their own communities and by promoting policy and programmatic changes.
   
• Missouri School Web Project The Missouri schoolweb project provides schools with the Internet server support they need to build their own electronic educational environments. The project provides participating schools with computer accounts and disk space so that they can create their own homepages and instructional applications. The project is an educational consortium for sharing development ideas and experiences. It links "schoolweb" schools with local, regional and state professional development and training resources.
   
• Missouri Project Success works cooperatively with local school districts to: 1) Overcome difficulties meeting Missouri School Improvement Program performance standards, and 2) Encourage long term systemic school improvement initiatives.
   
• Missouri Census Data Center (MCDC) is a cooperative program among state agencies in Missouri and the U.S. Bureau of the Census. Its purpose is to enhance awareness of, and access to public data, especially that of the Census Bureau. The Missouri State Library is the administrative lead agency for Missouri's program (there are State Data Center programs in every state) and it contracts out most of the data collection, dissemination and web site development duties to OSEDA and the Geographic Resources Center. OSEDA has been providing these services since 1988. MCDC provides an affiliate network of over 30 public agencies around the state who provide more local assistance with access and application of the data. The MCDC data archive, which includes many national collections as well as Missouri-specific data, is one of the premier sites in the country for accessing census and other demographic/geographic data. Many of OSEDA's data projects take advantage of the data infrastructure and web access tools provided by the MCDC.
   
• "eMINTS" Evaluation Project (enhancing Missouri Internet Networked Teaching Strategies) is Missouri's 21st Century classroom initiative that seeks to dramatically improve student achievement by transforming teaching practices through the enhanced availability of instructional technology and professional development for teachers both in the operation of the technology and in the new teaching strategies the technology makes possible. OSEDA is conducting the formative evaluation of the project. For additional information: Expanding for a Brighter Future.
   
• Development and Use of Social and Economic Data at MoDOT. The objectives of this project are to identify the relevant social and economic data for use at MoDOT, and then to develop and implement authoritative information products and electronic applications that are easily used by MoDOT personnel for planning, project development, and for Title VI and Environmental Justice applications.
• Community-based Food Systems Evaluation Project OSEDA is conducting the external evaluation of a joint MO Rural Crisis Center and MU Extension Kellogg-funded grant designed to nurture and expand the emerging community-based agriculture and food systems in Missouri.
   
• Missouri Senior Report The Missouri Senior Report is intended to enhance the well-being of seniors by annually informing key audiences of the contributions and needs of Missouri seniors. The report, available on the web and in print, provides outcome and status indicators of senior well-being at the state and county levels, issue papers relevant to current policy issues, as well as links and referrals to additional resources. Outcome and status indicators are available in a variety of formats including as tables (in PDF and HTML format), maps, interactive tables that allow the selection of specific indicators, years, and geographies, and downloadable data files. The Missouri Senior Report is produced as a collaboration between the University of Missouri’s Office of Social and Economic Data Analysis, Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, Missouri’s Area Agencies on Aging, and University of Missouri Extension.
   
• Close the Gap Consortium Partnering with OSEDA and McREL, DESE staff have designed an initiative focused on 25 selected middle and high schools where there currently exists a significant gap between the percent of African-American students proficient in communication arts and math on the MAP and the statewide average for white students. Imbedded in this work is the firm belief that the gap can and must be closed through changed practices, strong leadership, and appropriate support.
   
• The Family Wage Calculator for Missouri charts the actual costs of living and working in the state. It measures how much income a family needs to pay for housing, food, childcare, healthcare, transportation and taxes-if they do not receive any help from relatives, friends or the government-based on the ages, as well as number, of children in each household, the number of working adults in the family, whether or not the adult’s employer provides healthcare, and the family's geographic location.
   
• Missouri Career Exploration Tool OSEDA collaborates with the Missouri Economic Research and Information Center (MERIC) to create an interactive career exploration tool combining occupation projections, education and training information, industry projections, and skills data, including WorkKeys®.

From:  OSEDA website