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NEPC's Blog Post of the Day features a selection of interesting and insightful blog posts that apply a researcher perspective to important education policy issues. The views expressed by the bloggers are entirely their own. If you have read or written a research-related blog that you would like to have considered for reposting as a Blog Post of the Day, please email us at nepcblog@gmail.com

Answer Sheet: Here are 7 'Schools of Opportunity’ that 'Show Us a Way Forward’

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Valerie Strauss, Kevin G. Welner, Linda Molner Kelley, and Adam York

May 22, 2019

Re-imagining Migration: Immigration, Schools, and the Census

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John Rogers

May 21, 2019

Jersey Jazzman: Stuff Journalists Should Know About Charter Schools

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Jersey Jazzman

May 20, 2019

Janresseger: Shady Exit of Youngstown’s Appointed School CEO Exemplifies the Failure of Ohio School Takeover Law

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Jan Resseger

May 17, 2019

Answer Sheet: Why School Integration Works

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Valerie Strauss and Rucker C. Johnson

May 16, 2019

Living in Dialogue: The Test of Our Time: Can We Break the Shackles of NCLB?

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Monty Neill

May 15, 2019

Curmudgucation: DFER Tries to Swing a Primary

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Peter Greene

May 14, 2019

Diane Ravitch's Blog: William Mathis: The High School Rankings: Born on Third Base or Hit a Triple?

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Diane Ravitch

May 13, 2019

Our Schools: Why Charter School Proponents Have Lost Many of the Democrats Who Once Supported Them

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Jeff Bryant

May 10, 2019

Answer Sheet: House Democrats Seek Cut in Federal Charter School Funding, Saying Education Department Isn’t a ‘Responsible Steward of Taxpayer Dollars’

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Valerie Strauss

May 9, 2019

Shanker Blog: Federal Educational Investments Are Essential (Guest Post by Stan Litow)

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Stan Litow

May 8, 2019

Have You Heard: Different Strokes for Different Folks?

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Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider

May 7, 2019

Jersey Jazzman: How NOT to Evaluate Education Policy: A Newark Example

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Jersey Jazzman

May 6, 2019

Our Schools: Progressives Take a Bold Stance at an Epicenter of the Charter School Movement for Public Education

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Jeff Bryant

May 3, 2019

Janresseger: Can We Hold Onto Our Values as We Struggle to Survive in the Trump-DeVos Holding Pattern?

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Jan Resseger

May 2, 2019

Code Acts in Education: Learning from Surveillance Capitalism

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Ben Williamson

May 1, 2019

Answer Sheet: How Corporate Interests are Overtaking Well-Intentioned Goals of Personalized Learning

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Valerie Strauss, Faith Boninger, and Alex Molnar

April 30, 2019

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Making Schools Business-Like: Google in Classrooms (Part 2)

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Larry Cuban

April 29, 2019

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Making Schools Business-Like: The Longest School Reform in U.S. History? (Part 1)

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Larry Cuban

April 26, 2019

Curmudgucation: Using Cultural Competency to Sell Personalized [sic] Learning

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Peter Greene

April 25, 2019

Psychology Today: The Problems with Parental Notifications and "Opt-Outs"

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Elizabeth J. Meyer

April 24, 2019

Our Schools: Things Didn’t Go Well When Betsy DeVos was Confronted with Her Department’s Charter School Fraud

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Jeff Bryant

April 23, 2019

Diane Ravitch's Blog: Kansas: Students, Parents Rebel Against Mark Zuckerberg’s Summit Learning

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Diane Ravitch

April 22, 2019

Janresseger: Low Salaries, High Rents, Poor Teaching Conditions Create Widespread Shortage of Qualified Teachers

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Jan Resseger

April 19, 2019

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: What Preschool Isn’t: Waterford UPSTART and Any Other Online Program!

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Nancy Bailey

April 18, 2019

Stories from School AZ: Snap: Academic Gaps Continue for African American Youth in AZ

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Yolanda Wheelington

April 17, 2019

The Conversation: Why LeBron James' I Promise School Should Be More Like Lebron and Not Shy Away from Issues of Race

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Nolan Krueger, Kevin Cokley, and Marlon L. Bailey

April 16, 2019

Janresseger: DeVos’s Staff Blocked Researchers Trying to Investigate Federal Charter Schools Program

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Jan Resseger

April 15, 2019

Curmudgucation: DeVos Pushes Questionable Charter Research

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Peter Greene

April 12, 2019

Nancy Bailey's Education Website: The Toll College and Career Readiness Has Taken on Students

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Nancy Bailey

April 11, 2019

Answer Sheet: Why One Testing Expert Says New York State's Ever-Changing Standardized Testing Program is 'Useless'

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Fred Smith

April 10, 2019

Our Schools: 3 Questions That 'Created Havoc' in Betsy DeVos' Department of Education

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Jeff Bryant

April 8, 2019

Janresseger: Scathing New Report Demands Moratorium on New Grants from Federal Charter Schools Program

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Jan Resseger

April 5, 2019

Living in Dialogue: Will Oklahoma Rein In Epic Charter Failure?

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John Thompson

April 4, 2019

Shanker Blog: Dispatches from the Nexus of Boring and Important

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Matthew Di Carlo

April 3, 2019

Curmudgucation: DeVos, Class Size, and the Reformistan Bubble

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Peter Greene

April 2, 2019

Living in Dialogue: Why I Was Shaking My Head at Betsy DeVos

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Anthony Cody

April 1, 2019

Have You Heard: Wild Wild West: Arizona’s Charter School Experiment

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Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider

March 28, 2019

Education Law Prof Blog: Maryland and New Hampshire Plaintiffs File School Funding Lawsuits within One Week of Each Other, What Gives?

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Derek Black

March 27, 2019

Answer Sheet: U.S. Government Wasted up to $1 Billion on Charter Schools and Still Fails to Adequately Monitor Grants

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Valerie Strauss

March 26, 2019