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How to Talk to Young Children About Race: 10 Research-Based Tips

Newsletter

June 1, 2023

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How Much Do You Know About School Vouchers?

Newsletter

May 25, 2023

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NEPC Talks Education: An Interview With Thomas Dee and Sally Nuamah About Declining Enrollment

Podcasts

Christopher Saldaña, Thomas Dee, and Sally Nuamah

May 23, 2023

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NEPC Review: Think Again: Do Charter Schools Drain Resources From Traditional Public Schools? (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, March 2023)

NEPC Review

Huriya Jabbar

May 19, 2023

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Virtual Schools in the U.S. 2023

Research Brief

Alex Molnar, Gary Miron, Shelby Hagle, Charisse Gulosino, Bryan Mann, Luis Huerta, Jennifer King Rice, Amanda Glover, and Kayla Bill

May 11, 2023

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Eight Ways to Increase Charter School Equity

Newsletter

May 9, 2023

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How Can Charter School Authorizers Encourage Equity?

Newsletter

May 4, 2023

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NEPC Review: School Choice Is Not Enough: The Impact of Critical Social Justice Ideology in American Education (Manhattan Institute, February 2023)

NEPC Review

Christine Sleeter and David R. Garcia

May 3, 2023

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Educational Accountability 3.0: Beyond ESSA

Resource Document

May 1, 2023

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How “DefectCraft” Helps Explain Racial Disparities in Special Education

Newsletter

April 27, 2023

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New Laws Are Harming LGBTQ+ Students. Here’s How to Help.

Newsletter

April 25, 2023

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NEPC Review: Assessing the National Landscape of Capital Expenditures for Public School Districts (Urban Institute, January 2023)

NEPC Review

Jeffrey Vincent

April 20, 2023

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NEPC Talks Education: An Interview With Linda Molner Kelley and Derek Pierce About School Culture

Podcasts

Christopher Saldaña, Linda Molner Kelley, and Derek Pierce

April 18, 2023

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Consumer-Oriented School Rating Systems and Their Implications for Educational Equity

Policy Brief

Jeanne M. Powers

April 13, 2023

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NEPC Review: Public Education Funding Without Boundaries: How to Get K-12 Dollars to Follow Open Enrollment Students (Reason Foundation, January 2023)

NEPC Review

Mark Weber

April 6, 2023

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Can Cross-Sector Collaboration Make Education More Equitable?

Newsletter

April 4, 2023

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Governor DeSantis Scuffles With Woke and Insolent Chatbots

Newsletter

April 1, 2023

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Five Reasons to Be Cautious When Comparing Pre- and During-Pandemic Test Scores

Newsletter

March 28, 2023

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School Finance Is Unfair. This New Plan Would Help Fix It.

Newsletter

March 23, 2023

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Special Event: What Great Public High Schools Can Accomplish

Newsletter

March 21, 2023

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NEPC Talks Education: An Interview With Huriya Jabbar About School Choice Policy

Podcasts

Christopher Saldaña and Huriya Jabbar

March 16, 2023

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NEPC Review: The Effects of High-Performing, High-Turnover Teachers on Long-Run Student Achievement: Evidence From Teach for America (Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, November 2022)

NEPC Review

Emilie Mitescu Reagan

March 15, 2023

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Evidence That Vouchers Are Cannibalizing Public School Budgets

Newsletter

March 9, 2023

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NEPC Review: The Economic Cost of the Pandemic: State by State (Hoover Institution, January 2023)

NEPC Review

Clive Belfield

March 7, 2023

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NEPC Review: K-12 Without Borders: Public School Students, Families, and Teachers Shut In by Education Boundaries (Manhattan Institute, November 2022)

NEPC Review

Christopher Lubienski and T. Jameson Brewer

March 3, 2023

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Introducing Students to Civic Engagement: Six Practical Tips

Newsletter

February 28, 2023

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The Concerning Connection Between School Spending, Poverty, and Race

Newsletter

February 23, 2023

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NEPC Review: The Ohio EdChoice Program’s Impact on School District Enrollments, Finances, and Academics (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, December 2022)

NEPC Review

Joshua Cowen

February 21, 2023

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NEPC Talks Education: An Interview With Carrie Sampson About the Role of School Boards

Podcasts

Christopher Saldaña and Carrie Sampson

February 16, 2023

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NEPC Review: Equal Is Not Good Enough: An Analysis of School Funding Equity Across the U.S. and Within Each State (Education Trust, December 2022)

NEPC Review

Bruce D. Baker

February 14, 2023

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Writing Instruction for Emerging Bilinguals

Newsletter

February 9, 2023

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NEPC Review: The System-Level Effects of Denver’s Portfolio District Strategy: Technical Report (Center for Education Policy Analysis, University of Colorado Denver, December 2021)

NEPC Review

Robert Shand

February 8, 2023

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New Book Shows How High Schools Can Become Schools of Opportunity

Newsletter

February 2, 2023

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NEPC Review: Off Track: An Assessment of Wisconsin’s Early Care and Learning System for Young Children (Badger Institute, September 2023)

NEPC Review

W. Steven Barnett

January 31, 2023

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ICYMI: NEPC’s Top Newsletters of 2022

Newsletter

January 26, 2023

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NEPC Review: Empowering Parents with School Choice Reduces Wokeism in Education (Heritage Foundation, November 2022)

NEPC Review

Christine Sleeter and T. Jameson Brewer

January 24, 2023

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NEPC Talks Education: An Interview With David Knight About School Finance Policy and Practice

Podcasts

Christopher Saldaña and David S. Knight

January 19, 2023

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NEPC Review: Autonomous Schools Can Help Solve the Problem Behind the Teacher Shortage Problem (Progressive Policy Institute, October 2022)

NEPC Review

Charisse Gulosino and Hajime Mitani

January 17, 2023

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NEPC Talks Education: An Interview With Derek Black About the Role of Law in Education Policy

Podcasts

Christopher Saldaña and Derek W. Black

December 15, 2022

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Can “Syncretic Learning” Improve Math Instruction?

Newsletter

December 13, 2022

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What Research Is Actually Used by K-12 Administrators?

Newsletter

December 8, 2022

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Five Charts That Show How Partisan Strife Is Impacting Public Schools

Newsletter

December 6, 2022

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NEPC Review: For-Profit Charter Schools: An Evaluation of Their Spending and Outcomes (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, September 2022)

NEPC Review

Joshua Cowen

December 2, 2022

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Another Troubling Link Between K-12 Spending and Student Demographics

Newsletter

November 29, 2022

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NEPC Review: #StudentsFirst: Empowering Parents to Help Students Regain Lost Learning (The Buckeye Institute, September 2022)

NEPC Review

David S. Knight

November 22, 2022

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NEPC Talks Education: An Interview With David Garcia About the Use of Research in Education Policy

Podcasts

Christopher Saldaña and David R. Garcia

November 17, 2022

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Improving Trauma-Informed Education: Responding to Student Adversity With Equity-Centered, Systemic Support

Policy Brief

Stacy Gherardi

November 15, 2022

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How Charter Schools Undermine Good Education Policymaking

Policy Memo

Helen F. Ladd

November 10, 2022

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NEPC Review: Some Assembly Required: How a More Flexible Learning Ecosystem Can Better Serve All Kids and Unlock Innovation (Bellwether, August 2022)

NEPC Review

Carrie Sampson

November 8, 2022

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Tracing Pre-K’s Early Racist Implementation to Present-Day Policies

Newsletter

November 3, 2022

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How Charter Schools May Be Exacerbating the Teacher Shortage

Newsletter

November 1, 2022

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Preparing Tech-Savvy Teachers

Newsletter

October 27, 2022

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Omisión y Confusión: Six Ways Schools of Choice Advertise Their Approach to Teaching Emerging Bilinguals

Newsletter

October 25, 2022

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NEPC Talks Education: An Interview With Sonya Douglass About Racial Justice

Podcasts

Christopher Saldaña and Sonya Douglass

October 20, 2022

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NEPC Review: Use of Personalized Learning Platforms in One Pandemic-Era Microschool: A Case Study (Center on Reinventing Public Education, June 2022)

NEPC Review

Bryan Mann

October 18, 2022

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A Civil Rights Framework for the Reauthorization of ESEA

Policy Brief

Elizabeth DeBray, Kara Finnigan, Janel George, and Janelle T. Scott

October 11, 2022

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The Other CRT

Newsletter

October 4, 2022

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Is Teacher Stress a Policy Problem?

Newsletter

September 29, 2022

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Nine Ways to Hold Teacher Prep Programs Accountable for Equity

Newsletter

September 22, 2022

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NEPC Talks Education: An Interview With Richard Ingersoll and Tuan Nguyen About Teacher Shortages

Podcasts

Christopher Saldaña, Richard Ingersoll, and Tuan Nguyen

September 20, 2022

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Demystifying Detracking and Tracking

Newsletter

September 15, 2022

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The Science of Reading Movement: The Never-Ending Debate and the Need for a Different Approach to Reading Instruction

Policy Brief

P.L. Thomas

September 13, 2022

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Could Place-Based Education Help Save the World?

Newsletter

September 8, 2022

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Back to School Special: Three Ways to Use NEPC Resources in the Classroom

Newsletter

September 6, 2022

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Taking Stock of the GOP School Board Takeover Strategy

Newsletter

September 1, 2022

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Examining #Optoutsowhite

Newsletter

August 30, 2022

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How to Help Improve Schools for Transgender Youth

Newsletter

August 25, 2022

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Does Mask Wearing Depend on COVID Victims’ Race?

Newsletter

August 23, 2022

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The School-to-Deportation Pipeline: The Other School Safety Concern

Newsletter

August 18, 2022

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Digital Organizing: Six Ways to Up Your Game

Newsletter

August 16, 2022

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What Sesame Place Can Teach Us About Fighting Implicit Bias

Newsletter

August 11, 2022

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Five Ways to Encourage Equitable School Rezoning

Newsletter

August 4, 2022

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The Secret Weapon for Fighting Teacher Attrition

Newsletter

July 28, 2022

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The Trickiness of Charter School Waitlists

Newsletter

July 21, 2022

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NEPC Review: Michigan Student Opportunity Scholarships: Overview and Fiscal Analysis (Mackinac Center, May 2022)

NEPC Review

Christopher Saldaña

July 14, 2022

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The Dark Side of “Scientific Motherhood”

Newsletter

June 30, 2022

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State Accountability Rating Systems: A Review of School Report Cards as Indicators of School Quality

Policy Brief

Gail L. Sunderman

June 23, 2022

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Three Ways Research-Practice Partnerships Can Support Equity-Based Reforms

Newsletter

June 16, 2022

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What’s Wrong With Open Enrollment?

Newsletter

June 9, 2022

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The Intriguing Association Between Principal Unionization and Charter School Academic Outcomes

Newsletter

June 2, 2022

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The White Innocence Playbook

Newsletter

May 26, 2022

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NEPC Review: Addressing Teacher Shortages: Practical Ideas for the Pandemic and Beyond (TNTP, February 2022)

NEPC Review

Ed Fuller

May 24, 2022

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"Grow Your Own" Programs: Examining Potential and Pitfalls for a New Generation of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Community Teachers

Policy Brief

Conra D. Gist

May 19, 2022

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The Pandemic’s Pernicious Effect on Preschool

Newsletter

May 17, 2022

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The Outsourcing of Discrimination: Another SCOTUS Earthquake?

Policy Memo

Kevin G. Welner

May 12, 2022

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NEPC Review: Pathways to Success: Exploring the Long-Term Outcomes of Alumni from Summit Public Schools (Summit Public Schools, September 2021)

NEPC Review

Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

May 10, 2022

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It's Time to End Corporal Punishment

Newsletter

May 5, 2022

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NEPC Review: From School Aid to Student Aid: Modernizing K-12 Funding in Michigan (Mackinac Center, March 2022)

NEPC Review

Bruce D. Baker

May 3, 2022

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NEPC Talks Education: An Interview With Morgan Craven, Ellen Reddy, and Kameisha Smith About Corporal Punishment

Podcasts

Christopher Saldaña, Morgan Craven, Ellen Reddy, and Kameisha Smith

April 28, 2022

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Five Real-World Lessons From Common Core State Standards Implementation

Newsletter

April 26, 2022

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Four Ways School Choice Worsens Segregation

Newsletter

April 21, 2022

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“Don’t Say Gay” Laws Are Nothing New

Newsletter

April 19, 2022

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NEPC Talks Education: An Interview With Kristal Moore Clemons, Kendall Deas, and Jon Hale About Freedom Schools

Podcasts

Christopher Saldaña, Kristal Moore Clemons, Kendall Deas, and Jon Hale

April 14, 2022

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Why Is the Charter Lobby So Upset About Biden’s Proposed Regulations?

Newsletter

Kevin G. Welner

April 13, 2022

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Why In-School Suspension Is Not a Helpful Alternative

Newsletter

April 7, 2022

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From Toxic to Productive Masculinity

Newsletter

April 5, 2022

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Teachers Welcome Deprofessionalization

Newsletter

April 1, 2022

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NEPC Review: Documenting Inequitable Patterns in Spending by Parent Teacher Associations, Parent Teacher Organizations, and "Friends of" Fundraising Groups at Illinois Public Schools (Urban Institute, February 2022)

NEPC Review

Maia Cucchiara

March 29, 2022

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Transgender Students and Policy in K-12 Public Schools: Acknowledging Historical Harms and Taking Steps Toward a Promising Future

Policy Brief

Elizabeth J. Meyer, Bethy Leonardi, and Harper B. Keenan

March 24, 2022

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How Rising Rents Harm Kids

Newsletter

March 22, 2022