Will 2020 Be the Year of Acknowledging Opportunity Gaps?
Newsletter
The phrase “opportunity gap” should supplant “achievement gap.” Here’s why.
NEPC Review: School Sector and Satisfaction: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Sample (Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, October 2019)
NEPC Review
January 21, 2020
School Sector and Satisfaction: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Sample, a rep...
Education Interview of the Month: Christopher Saldaña Interviews Daniel Markovits About American Meritocracy
FYI
NEPC Researcher Christopher Saldaña interviews Daniel Markovits about American meritocr...
The Starts and Stumbles of Restorative Justice in Education: Where Do We Go from Here?
Policy Brief
Schools are implementing Restorative Justice in Education (RJE) initiatives across the ...
Education Interview of the Month: Christopher Saldaña Interviews Kate Phillippo About Competitive School Choice in Chicago
FYI
NEPC Researcher Christopher Saldaña interviews Kate Phillippo about competitive school ...
The Dark Side of Parent Fundraising
Newsletter
While we celebrate when parents donate money to their children’s schools, the practice ...
Are Zillow and Realtors Contributing to School Segregation?
Newsletter
When home buyers and renters seek out neighborhoods with good schools, what are they re...
Educational Distrust is Everywhere. Here’s What We Can Do About It
Newsletter
A new book examines sources of educational distrust and ways in which we might restore ...
Six Ways Educators Can Make Schools Safer for LGBTQ Students
Newsletter
Changes to curriculum, policy, and practice can help schools become safer and more welc...
How to Start a Social Justice Reading Group in Four Easy Steps
Newsletter
A recently finalized guide explains how communities can start a multi-generational read...
NEPC Review: Fewer Children Left Behind: Lessons From the Dramatic Achievement Gains of the 1990s and 2000s (Fordham Institute, October 2019)
NEPC Review
November 26, 2019
A Fordham report highlights the historic academic progress of Black and Hispanic groups...
Education Interview of the Month: Christopher Saldaña Interviews Kevin Kumashiro About Education Deans for Justice and Equity Alliance
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NEPC Researcher Christopher Saldaña interviews Kevin Kumashiro about the Education Dean...
NEPC Review: Commercial Cash: How NY Schools Can Raise Extra Money Without Raising Taxes (Empire Center, September 2019)
NEPC Review
November 19, 2019
Commercial Cash: How NY Schools Can Raise Extra Money Without Raising Taxes gets it hal...
NEPC Review: Rising Tide: Charter School Market Share and Student Achievement (Fordham Institute, September 2019)
NEPC Review
November 14, 2019
The Thomas B. Fordham Institute published a report, A Rising Tide: Charter School Marke...
College Admissions Fraud and 504 Plans: A Q&A with NEPC Fellow Edward Garcia Fierros
Newsletter
In this Q&A, NEPC Fellow Edward Garcia Fierros sheds light on the use and abuse of ...
NEPC Review: Homeschooling and Educational Freedom (Cato Institute, September 2019)
NEPC Review
November 7, 2019
Homeschooling and Educational Freedom, a report from the Cato Institute, argues that ho...
Applications Now Open for Program Honoring High-Quality, Equitable Schools
Newsletter
The Schools of Opportunity project honors high schools that provide an equitable and hi...
Trauma Belongs in Schools. This New Book Explains Why.
Newsletter
A new book explains how and why literacy instruction should incorporate the difficult e...
NEPC Review: Beyond the Mirage: How Pragmatic Stewardship Could Transform Learning Outcomes in International Education Systems (June 2019)
NEPC Review
October 29, 2019
A report, Beyond the Mirage: How Pragmatic Stewardship Could Transform Learning Outcome...
Education Interview of the Month: Christopher Saldaña Interviews Katherine Schultz About Distrust in Educational Change
FYI
NEPC Researcher Christopher Saldaña interviews Katherine Schultz, Dean and Professor of...
NEPC Review: The Case for Educational Pluralism in the U.S. (Manhattan Institute, July 2019)
NEPC Review
October 22, 2019
A report from the Manhattan Institute argues that public funding for education in the U...
NEPC Review: The Effects of Means-Tested Private School Choice Programs on College Enrollment and Graduation (Urban Institute, July 2019)
NEPC Review
October 17, 2019
A report by the Urban Institute, The Effects of Means-Tested Private School Choice Prog...
This Community Renovated Their Schools Instead of Tearing Them Down. The Results Are In. And They’re Spectacular.
Newsletter
A new series of films highlights the way the community schools model resulted in the su...
Seven Trends to Reform U.S. Teacher Education, and the Need to Address Systemic Injustices
FYI
In this statement, over 350 deans and other leaders are calling for a significant shift...
Five Charts That Show Why We Really Need to Track Educational Equity
Newsletter
A National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report proposes 16 indicato...
Teacher Education and Deeper Learning. These Seven Schools are Doing it Right
Newsletter
A new book from Jeannie Oakes and Linda Darling-Hammond profiles seven teacher educatio...
White Fragility. What it Looks Like in Schools
Newsletter
In this Q&A, NEPC Fellow Paul Thomas discusses how White fragility plays out in sch...
Education Interview of the Month: Christopher Saldaña Interviews Dirk Zuschlag and Kristine Bowman About State Intervention in School District Finances
FYI
NEPC Researcher Christopher Saldaña interviews Dirk Zuschlag and Kristine Bowman about ...
Who “Gets” to Be Bilingual?
Newsletter
In this Q&A, NEPC Fellow Beatriz Arias discusses issues related to emerging bilingu...
Neo-Segregation: Communities That Divorce Their School Districts
Newsletter
A new study finds that school district secessions in the South contribute to racial seg...
The Saturday School Where Mexican American Children Learn About Their Heritage: A Q&A with NEPC Fellow Angela Valenzuela
Newsletter
NEPC Fellow Angela Valenzuela discusses Academia Cuauhtli, a Saturday school where four...
Bad and Better News about School Segregation
Newsletter
A recent study finds that Latino children are becoming more racially segregated in scho...
Young Adult Voting Skyrocketed in 2018. What Can We Do To Make It Happen Again?
Newsletter
NEPC Fellow John Rogers and his collaborators Joe Kahne and Erica Hodgin answer questio...
States’ Intervention in School Districts’ Finances
Research Brief
This research brief investigates state fiscal powers over districts, providing the nece...
Data Walls Demoralize Students. Assessment Expert Lorrie Shepard Explains Why
Newsletter
In this Q&A, NEPC Fellow Lorrie Shepard addresses problems with data walls and othe...
Six Ways Trump “Public Benefits” Policies Could Harm Children
Newsletter
Policy changes could damage the health and educational opportunities of immigrant child...
Are You Demoralized or “Just” Burnt Out?
Newsletter
Read about NEPC Fellow Doris A. Santoro’s work on teacher demoralization and then try y...
Adolescence: 6 Facts to Know
Newsletter
Learn more about tweens, teens, and young adults from NEPC resources and a new report f...
The Promise of Meta-Analysis for Our Schools: A Q&A with NEPC Fellow Gene V Glass
Newsletter
NEPC Fellow Gene V Glass discusses meta-analysis, a statistical technique that combines...
From Black Armbands to Instagram: Tinker + 50
Newsletter
In this Q&A, NEPC Fellow Preston Green III marks the 50th anniversary of the landma...