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NEPC Review: Money for Nothing: The Relationship Between Various Types of School Spending and Academic Outcomes (Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, August 2018)

NEPC Review

William J. Mathis

October 11, 2018

What Should We Really Learn From New Orleans After the Storm? A Q&A With NEPC Fellow Bruce Baker

Newsletter

October 9, 2018

NEPC Review: Fiscal and Education Spillovers from Charter School Expansion (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, July 2018)

NEPC Review

Clive Belfield

October 5, 2018

Irony at the IRS: Cracking Down on Blue State Tactic Borrowed From Red State Playbook

Newsletter

October 2, 2018

Organizing and Managing Instruction in US Public School Districts: Considerations for Families, Communities, and States

Policy Brief

Donald J. Peurach and Maxwell Yurkofsky

September 27, 2018

NEPC Review: Systems for Success: Thinking Beyond Access to AP (The Education Trust, July 2017)

NEPC Review

Beth C. Rubin

September 25, 2018

The Long View Highlights Community Organizing in Urban Schools

Newsletter

September 20, 2018

Education Interview of the Month: Greg Smith Interviews Patricia Gándara on Immigration

FYI

Gregory A. Smith and Patricia Gándara

September 18, 2018

Education and the Kavanaugh Confirmation Hearings

Newsletter

September 13, 2018

NEPC Review: Time to Change Course: Reclaiming the Potential of Texas Charter Schools (ExcelinEd and Texas Public Policy Foundation, June 2018)

NEPC Review

Ed Fuller

September 12, 2018

Whatever Happened with the Los Angeles Times' Decision to Publish Teachers’ Value-Added Scores?

Newsletter

September 6, 2018

Are Four-Day Weeks Bad for Students?

Newsletter

September 4, 2018

How to Sustain Community Schools − The Partnership for the Future of Learning Publishes New How-To Guide

Newsletter

August 30, 2018

NEPC Resources on Protecting Student Privacy in Schools

Newsletter

August 28, 2018

Reviews Worth Sharing: The Long-Run Effects of Teacher Collective Bargaining

Reviews Worth Sharing

Emma García and John Schmitt

August 23, 2018

EPI Review Raises Questions About Study Linking Teacher Collective Bargaining to Poorer Labor Market Outcomes for Students

Newsletter

August 23, 2018

What Does Research Have to Say About LeBron’s New School?

Newsletter

August 21, 2018

Ideas for Incorporating NEPC Resources into Your Instruction

Newsletter

August 16, 2018

Are Private Schools Really Better?

Newsletter

August 9, 2018

As School Segregation Intensifies, What Can We Do About It?

Newsletter

August 7, 2018

The Demise of Channel One News

Newsletter

August 2, 2018

An Open Secret: The Problems with Virtual Schools

Newsletter

July 31, 2018

What Do We Know About Teacher Quality?

Newsletter

July 26, 2018

Five Resources to Help You Understand the Affirmative Action Debate

Newsletter

July 25, 2018

High Stakes, Low Validity?

Newsletter

July 19, 2018

This School Encouraged Every Student to Take Advanced Classes. Here’s What Happened Next.

Newsletter

July 17, 2018

Reviews Worth Sharing: An Impact Analysis of North Carolina's Opportunity Scholarship Program on Student Achievement (June 2018)

Reviews Worth Sharing

Kristopher Nordstrom

July 12, 2018

Review Worth Sharing Identifies Flaws in NC Voucher Evaluation

Newsletter

July 12, 2018

New Jersey Desegregation Case Could Make Waves

Newsletter

July 10, 2018

Oakland International Academy Welcomes New Immigrants

Newsletter

July 5, 2018

Reviews Worth Sharing: Focusing on School Safety After Parkland (The Heritage Foundation, March 2018)

Reviews Worth Sharing

Dustin Pappas and Meredith Mountford

July 3, 2018

This Professor Assigned Her Students NEPC-Style Reviews. Here’s What They Learned

Newsletter

July 3, 2018

Joint Statement Concerning the Trump Administration Policy on Family Immigration from the School of Education at the University of Colorado Boulder, BUENO Center for Multicultural Education, and the National Education Policy Center

Newsletter

June 28, 2018

NEPC Review: Is Public Schooling a Public Good? An Analysis of Schooling Externalities (Cato Institute, May 2018)

NEPC Review

Doris A. Santoro

June 26, 2018

School Discipline: Learning the Wrong Lesson from the Parkland Shootings

Newsletter

June 21, 2018

Dive Deep into the Latest School Voucher Battle

Newsletter

June 19, 2018

NEPC Review: Hard Work and Soft Skills (American Enterprise Institute, April 2018)

NEPC Review

James Rosenbaum

June 15, 2018

NEPC Review: 2018 Teacher Prep Review (National Council on Teacher Quality, April 2018)

NEPC Review

Marilyn Cochran-Smith, Elizabeth Stringer Keefe, Wen-Chia Chang, and Molly Cummings Carney

June 12, 2018

What Might Happen If School Vouchers and Privatization of Schools Were to Become Universal in the U.S.: Learning from a National Test Case—Chile

Policy Brief

Ernesto Treviño, Rick Mintrop, Cristóbal Villalobos, and Miguel Órdenes

June 7, 2018

State-Level Assessments and Teacher Evaluation Systems after the Passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act: Some Steps in the Right Direction

Policy Brief

Kevin Close, Audrey Amrein-Beardsley, and Clarin Collins

June 5, 2018

Apples to Aardvarks: WILL Replicates Erroneous Private School Findings

Newsletter

May 31, 2018

NEPC Review: 2018 State Teacher Policy Best Practices Guide (National Council on Teacher Quality, March 2018)

NEPC Review

Marilyn Cochran-Smith, Elizabeth Stringer Keefe, Wen-Chia Chang, and Molly Cummings Carney

May 24, 2018

Schools of Opportunity in the News. Nominate 2018 Candidates Now!

Newsletter

May 22, 2018

Education Interview of the Month: Greg Smith Interviews Michael Barbour and Bryan Mann on Virtual Schools

FYI

Gregory A. Smith, Michael K. Barbour, and Bryan Mann

May 17, 2018

School Closures: When a School is More than Just a School

Newsletter

May 15, 2018

NEPC Review: Bigger Bang, Fewer Bucks? (University of Arkansas Department of Education Reform, February 2018)

NEPC Review

Julian Vasquez Heilig

May 10, 2018

NEPC Review: It Takes a Community (Bellwether Education Partners, February 2018)

NEPC Review

Adam Winsler

May 8, 2018

NEPC Review: Do Impacts on Test Scores Even Matter? (American Enterprise Institute, March 2018)

NEPC Review

Christopher Lubienski and T. Jameson Brewer

May 3, 2018

Full-Time Virtual and Blended Schools: Enrollment, Student Characteristics, and Performance

Research Brief

Gary Miron, Christopher Shank, and Caryn Davidson

May 1, 2018

Education Interview of the Month: Greg Smith Interviews Marilyn Cochran-Smith About Teacher Accountability

FYI

Gregory A. Smith and Marilyn Cochran-Smith

April 17, 2018

NEPC Review: Charter Schools and the Achievement Gap (Brookings Institution, February 2018)

NEPC Review

Chris Torres and Joanne W. Golann

April 11, 2018

Why We’re Glad that the National Education Policy Center Deleted Its Facebook Account

Resource Document

Alex Molnar and Faith Boninger

April 5, 2018

National Education Policy Center Deletes Its Facebook Account and Calls for Strict Data Protections Plus Public Regulation and Oversight of Digital Platforms

Newsletter

March 27, 2018

Education Interview of the Month: Greg Smith Interviews Warren Simmons About Systemic Change in Schools

FYI

Gregory A. Smith and Warren Simmons

March 7, 2018

NEPC Review: Unlocking Potential: How Political Skill Can Maximize Superintendent Effectiveness (Center on Reinventing Public Education, January 2018)

NEPC Review

William J. Mathis

March 6, 2018

Seaside High School Exemplifies How Schools Can Help Students Learn by Providing Them Rich Learning Opportunities

FYI

March 1, 2018

Seaside High School Exemplifies How Schools Can Help Students Learn by Providing Them Rich Learning Opportunities

Newsletter

March 1, 2018

NEPC Review: Evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund: Final Report on Implementation and Impact of Pay-for-Performance Across Four Years (Institute of Education Sciences, December 2017)

NEPC Review

Francesca López

February 27, 2018

NEPC Review: The Academic and Behavioral Consequences of Discipline Policy Reform: Evidence from Philadelphia (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, December 2017)

NEPC Review

Yolanda Anyon and Kathryn Wiley

February 15, 2018

Education Interview of the Month: Greg Smith Interviews Oscar Jimenez-Castellanos on Education Savings Accounts

FYI

Gregory A. Smith and Oscar Jiménez-Castellanos

February 14, 2018

NEPC Review: Balancing Act: Schools, Neighborhoods, and Racial Imbalance (Brookings Institution, November 2017)

NEPC Review

Genevieve Siegel-Hawley and Erica Frankenberg

February 8, 2018

Don't Expect Too Much: The Limited Usefulness of Common SES Measures and a Prescription for Change

Policy Brief

Michael Harwell

January 30, 2018

How Voucher Advocates Created a Blue-State Loophole to Trump’s Tax Law

Policy Memo

Kevin G. Welner

January 24, 2018

The State of Education Savings Account Programs in the United States

Policy Brief

Oscar Jiménez-Castellanos, William J. Mathis, and Kevin G. Welner

January 23, 2018

Eight Public High Schools Earn Top Honors, Recognized as National Schools of Opportunity

Newsletter

January 22, 2018

NEPC Review: When Degree Programs for Pre-K Teachers Go Online: Challenges and Opportunities (New America Foundation, November 2017)

NEPC Review

Beth Graue and Erica Ramberg

January 18, 2018

Education Interview of the Month: Greg Smith Interviews Linda Molner Kelley and Adam York on Schools of Opportunity

FYI

Gregory A. Smith, Linda Molner Kelley, and Adam York

January 17, 2018

NEPC Review: Student-Centered State Funding: A How-to Guide for State Policymakers (The Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd), November 2017)

NEPC Review

Bruce D. Baker

January 9, 2018

Education Interview of the Month: Greg Smith Interviews Jeannie Oakes on Community Schools

FYI

Gregory A. Smith and Jeannie Oakes

December 19, 2017

Community Schools: Closing Opportunity Gaps for Students in Need

Newsletter

December 14, 2017

NEPC Review: School District Reform in Newark (National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2017)

NEPC Review

Mark Weber and Bruce D. Baker

December 14, 2017

Might the New Gates Education Initiative Close Opportunity Gaps?

Policy Memo

Kevin G. Welner

December 12, 2017

NEPC Review: Tackling Gaps in Access to Strong Teachers: What State Leaders Can Do (The Education Trust, October 2017)

NEPC Review

Doris A. Santoro

November 28, 2017

NEPC Review: Why Indiana Parents Choose: A Cross-Sector Survey of Parents' Views in a Robust School Choice Environment (EdChoice, September 2017)

NEPC Review

Jeanne M. Powers

November 21, 2017

Education Interview of the Month: Greg Smith Interviews Ken Zeichner on Independent Teacher Prep Programs

FYI

Gregory A. Smith and Kenneth M. Zeichner

November 14, 2017

NEPC Review: Teacher Absenteeism in Charter and Traditional Public Schools (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, September 2017)

NEPC Review

Patricia H. Hinchey

November 7, 2017

NEPC Review: Lights Off: Practice and Impact of Closing Low-Performing Schools (Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO), August 2017)

NEPC Review

Matthew Gaertner and Ben Kirshner

October 24, 2017

Education Interview of the Month: Greg Smith Interviews Alyssa Hadley Dunn on Viral Teacher Resignation Letters

FYI

Gregory A. Smith and Alyssa Hadley Dunn

October 17, 2017

NEPC Review: Charter School Funding: Inequity in New York City (University of Arkansas Department of Education Reform, August 2017)

NEPC Review

Clive Belfield

October 11, 2017

Assessing the Fiscal Impact of Wisconsin's Statewide Voucher Program

Policy Memo

Ellie Bruecker

October 5, 2017

Education Interview of the Month: Greg Smith Interviews Faith Boninger on Student Privacy

FYI

Gregory A. Smith and Faith Boninger

September 21, 2017

NEPC Review: Charter Management Organizations 2017 (Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO), June 2017)

NEPC Review

Gary Miron and Christopher Shank

September 7, 2017

Our Children Deserve Better: A Call to Resist Washington’s Dangerous Vision for U.S. Education

FYI

Education Deans for Justice and Equity

September 6, 2017

Strong Collaborative Relationships for Strong Community Schools

Policy Memo

Julia Daniel

August 31, 2017

NEPC Review: The Tax-Credit Scholarship Audit: Do Publicly Funded Private School Choice Programs Save Money? (EdChoice, October 2016)

NEPC Review

Luis Huerta and Steven J. Koutsavlis

August 24, 2017

Asleep at the Switch: Schoolhouse Commercialism, Student Privacy, and the Failure of Policymaking

Research Brief

Faith Boninger, Alex Molnar, and Kevin Murray

August 15, 2017

A Continuous Improvement Approach to Indicator Development

FYI

William R. Penuel, Michelle Renée Valladares, and Elizabeth J. Meyer

July 19, 2017

NEPC Review: Back to the Staffing Surge: The Great Teacher Salary Stagnation and the Decades-Long Employment Growth in American Public Schools (EdChoice, May 2017)

NEPC Review

Joydeep Roy and William J. Mathis

July 5, 2017

Virtual Schools in Five Key States Show Growth but Poor Performance

Newsletter

June 27, 2017

NEPC Review: Renewing Our Cities (EdChoice, March 2017)

NEPC Review

Jennifer Jellison Holme and Emily Germain

June 20, 2017

NEPC Review: Hidden Money: The Outsized Role of Parent Contributions in School Finance (Center for American Progress, April 2017)

NEPC Review

Maia Cucchiara

June 15, 2017

NEPC Review: Leveraging ESSA to Support Quality-School Growth (Thomas B. Fordham Institute and Education Cities, March 2017)

NEPC Review

Gail L. Sunderman

June 13, 2017

Law and Order in School and Society: How Discipline and Policing Policies Harm Students of Color, and What We Can Do About It

Policy Brief

Janelle T. Scott, Michele S. Moses, Kara Finnigan, Tina Trujillo, and Darrell Jackson

June 8, 2017

Community Schools: An Evidence-Based Strategy for Equitable School Improvement

Policy Brief

Jeannie Oakes, Anna Maier, and Julia Daniel

June 5, 2017

NEPC Review: Understanding a Vicious Cycle: Do Out-of-School Suspensions Impact Student Test Scores? (University of Arkansas Department of Education Reform, March 2017)

NEPC Review

Brea L. Perry and Daniel J. Losen

June 1, 2017

School Closure as a Strategy to Remedy Low Performance

Policy Brief

Gail L. Sunderman, Erin Coghlan, and Rick Mintrop

May 18, 2017

NEPC Review: New York Charter Schools Outperform Traditional Selective Public Schools: More Evidence that Cream-Skimming is Not Driving Charters' Success (Manhattan Institute , March 2017)

NEPC Review

Sarah Cordes

May 9, 2017

NEPC Review: Gender Identity Policies in Schools (Heritage Foundation, March 2017)

NEPC Review

Robert Kim

May 2, 2017

NEPC Review: Apples to Apples: The Definitive Look at School Test Scores in Milwaukee and Wisconsin (Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, March 2017)

NEPC Review

Benjamin Shear

April 25, 2017

NEPC Director Kevin Welner Honored With American Educational Research Association Award

Newsletter

April 24, 2017

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