Publications

Welcome. Here you will find some of our Fellows' more significant journal articles, and this is also the gateway to a large body of original NEPC publications. Our publications present the highest quality research in language comprehensible to the public and academics alike. There are four main types of publications:

• Policy Briefs: Syntheses of existing research, which explain in understandable language the best research evidence about important policy issues. These briefs ask the question, "What do we know about a given policy option?"

• Research Briefs: Similar in some ways to our policy briefs, these reports present original research.

• Legislative Policy Briefs: These combine our usual policy briefs with a section providing model statutory code language that will implement the recommendations contained in the briefs.

• Think Tank Reviews: This project provides short, rigorous analyses of important think tank publications, written in clear, understandable language. Our goal is for a reader or prospective user of a think tank report to learn from our review about the strengths, weaknesses, and usefulness of the report – so that reading the report and review in combination would be substantially more valuable than reading the report alone.

  "I just want to say thank you to NEPC.  What a great organization and these briefs are wonderful.  Keep up the great work!"

• Steven J. Klees, Harold R. W. Benjamin Professor of International & Comparative Education, University of Maryland

These publications are provided free of cost to NEPC's readers, who may make non-commercial use of the material as long as NEPC and its author(s) are credited as the source. For inquiries about commercial use, please contact NEPC at nepc@colorado.edu.