EPRU Research and Writing | National Education Policy Center

Holding Teacher Preparation Accountable: A Review of Claims and Evidence

Policy Brief

Marilyn Cochran-Smith, Rebecca Stern, Juan Gabriel Sánchez, Andrew F. Miller, Elizabeth Stringer Keefe, M. Beatriz Fernández, Wen-Chia Chang, Molly Cummings Carney, Stephani Burton, and Megina Baker

March 16, 2016

NEPC Review: SchoolGrades.org (Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, September 2015)

NEPC Review

Jaime Del Razo

March 10, 2016

Community Schools as an Effective Strategy for Reform

Policy Memo

Julia Daniel and Jon Snyder

March 8, 2016

Review of Special Education and English Language Learner Students in Boston Charter Schools

NEPC Review

Julie F. Mead and Mark Weber

February 17, 2016

NEPC Review: Continued Progress: Promising Evidence on Personalized Learning (RAND Corporation, November 2015)

NEPC Review

William R. Penuel and Raymond Johnson

January 26, 2016

NEPC Review: Smart, Skilled, and Striving: Transforming and Elevating the Teaching Profession (Center for American Progress, November 2015)

NEPC Review

Elizabeth J. Meyer

January 7, 2016

NEPC Review: The Integration Anomaly: Comparing the Effects of K-12 Education Delivery Models on Segregation in Schools (Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, October 2015)

NEPC Review

Genevieve Siegel-Hawley and Erica Frankenberg

January 5, 2016

Diverse Housing, Diverse Schooling: How Policy Can Stabilize Racial Demographic Change in Cities and Suburbs

Policy Brief

Amy Stuart Wells

December 15, 2015

The Business of Charter Schooling: Understanding the Policies that Charter Operators Use for Financial Benefit

Research Brief

Bruce D. Baker and Gary Miron

December 10, 2015

Review of The Effects of Test-Based Retention on Student Outcomes Over Time

NEPC Review

Joseph Cimpian

December 3, 2015

NEPC Review: The Hidden Value of Curriculum Reform: Do States and Districts Receive the Most Bang for Their Curriculum Buck? (Center for American Progress, October 2015)

NEPC Review

Sarah Lubienski

November 19, 2015

NEPC Review: Do We Already Have Universal Preschool? (Brookings Institution, September 2015)

NEPC Review

W. Steven Barnett

November 12, 2015

International Test Score Comparisons and Educational Policy: A Review of the Critiques

Policy Brief

Martin Carnoy

October 30, 2015

NAEPscuses: Making Sense of Excuse-Making from the No-Excuses Contingent

Policy Memo

Kevin G. Welner

October 28, 2015

NEPC Review: Ten Years in New Orleans: Public School Resurgence and the Path Ahead (Public Impact and New Schools for New Orleans, August 2015)

NEPC Review

Adrienne D. Dixson

October 21, 2015

NEPC Review: The Mirage: Confronting the Hard Truth About Our Quest for Teacher Development (TNTP, August 2015)

NEPC Review

Heather C. Hill

September 30, 2015

Investing in Equal Opportunity: What Would it Take to Build the Balance Wheel?

Policy Brief

Jennifer King Rice

September 15, 2015

NEPC Review: Measuring Diversity in Charter School Offerings (American Enterprise Institute, July 2015)

NEPC Review

Arnold Danzig and William J. Mathis

September 1, 2015

NEPC Review: School Closures and Student Achievement: An Analysis of Ohio's Urban District and Charter Schools (Fordham Institute, April 2015)

NEPC Review

Ben Kirshner and Matthew Gaertner

June 16, 2015

NEPC Review: ESEA Reauthorization: How We Can Build Upon No Child Left Behind's Progress for Students with Disabilities in a Reauthorized ESEA (Center for American Progress, April 2015)

NEPC Review

Edward García Fierros and Katherine Cosner

June 8, 2015

Student Mobility: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions

Policy Brief

Russell W. Rumberger

June 1, 2015

NEPC Review: Increasing Education: What it Will and Will Not Do for Earnings and Earnings Inequality (The Hamilton Project, March 2015)

NEPC Review

Marvin Lazerson and Ryan Pfleger

May 18, 2015

NEPC Review: Dramatic Action, Dramatic Improvement: The Research on School Turnaround (Center for American Progress, March 2015)

NEPC Review

Tina Trujillo

May 11, 2015

NEPC Review: Pushed Out? Low-Performing Students and New York City Charter Schools (Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, March 2015)

NEPC Review

Erica Frankenberg

May 4, 2015

NEPC Review: Urban Charter School Study Report on 41 Regions 2015 (Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO), March 2015)

NEPC Review

Andrew Maul

April 27, 2015

NEPC Review: Measuring and Understanding Education Advocacy (Brookings Institution, March 2015)

NEPC Review

Robin Rogers and Sara Goldrick-Rab

April 16, 2015

NEPC Review: Paying the Best Teachers More to Teach More Students (Edunomics Lab at Georgetown University, February 2015)

NEPC Review

Patricia H. Hinchey

April 13, 2015

Virtual Schools in the U.S. 2015: Politics, Performance, Policy, and Research Evidence

Research Brief

Alex Molnar, Luis A. Huerta, Michael K. Barbour, Gary Miron, Sheryl Rankin Shafer, and Charisse Gulosino

March 10, 2015

NEPC Review: Separating Fact & Fiction: What You Need to Know About Charter Schools (National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, August 2014)

NEPC Review

Gary Miron, William J. Mathis, and Kevin G. Welner

February 23, 2015

Review of The Texas Economy and School Choice

NEPC Review

Christopher Lubienski and Ee-Seul Yoon

February 17, 2015

Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act: Time to Move Beyond Test-Focused Policies

Policy Memo

Kevin G. Welner and William J. Mathis

February 12, 2015

Review of Turning Lightning into Electricity

NEPC Review

Mark R. Warren

February 2, 2015

NEPC Review: No Excuses Charter Schools: A Meta-Analysis of the Experimental Evidence (University of Arkansas Department of Education Reform, December 2014)

NEPC Review

Jeanne M. Powers

January 20, 2015

NEPC Review: Proposed 2015 Federal Teacher Preparation Regulations (U.S. Department of Education, December 2014)

NEPC Review

Kevin K. Kumashiro

January 12, 2015

Review of Better Data, Better Decisions and A Crisis We Can Solve

NEPC Review

Erin McNamara Horvat and David Everington Baugh

January 5, 2015

NEPC Review: The Economic Benefits of Closing Educational Achievement Gaps (Center for American Progress, November 2014)

NEPC Review

Clive Belfield

December 4, 2014

Personalized Instruction: New Interest, Old Rhetoric, Limited Results, and the Need for a New Direction for Computer-Mediated Learning

Policy Brief

Noel Enyedy

November 24, 2014

Review of Federal School Finance Reform

NEPC Review

Gail L. Sunderman

November 6, 2014

NEPC Review: Virtual Schooling and Student Learning: Evidence from the Florida Virtual School (Harvard University Program on Education Policy and Governance)

NEPC Review

Michael K. Barbour

October 28, 2014

NEPC Review: A Meta-Analysis of the Literature on the Effect of Charter Schools on Student Achievement (Center on Reinventing Public Education, August 2014)

NEPC Review

Francesca López

September 30, 2014

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