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Review of The Lessons of No Child Left Behind

NEPC Review

Bruce Fuller

August 27, 2013

Is American Education on a Bad Track?

Resource Document

Kevin G. Welner and Carol C. Burris

August 8, 2013

Review of National Charter School Study 2013

NEPC Review

Andrew Maul and Abby McClelland

July 16, 2013

Texas Must Avoid a Return to the Vocational Track

Resource Document

Kevin G. Welner and Carol C. Burris

June 29, 2013

Review of Weighted School Funding in California

NEPC Review

Bruce D. Baker

June 18, 2013

Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking - 2013 Collection

Policy Brief

William J. Mathis

June 13, 2013

Review of Middle Class or Middle of the Pack

NEPC Review

Martin Carnoy

June 4, 2013

Consequential Validity and the Transformation of Tests from Measurement Tools to Policy Tools

Resource Document

Kevin G. Welner

May 25, 2013

Addressing School Environment and Safety for LGBT Students

Policy Brief

William J. Mathis

May 23, 2013

The Dirty Dozen: How Charter Schools Influence Student Enrollment

Resource Document

Kevin G. Welner

May 10, 2013

Review of Report Card on American Education

NEPC Review

Christopher Lubienski and T. Jameson Brewer

May 9, 2013

Virtual Schools in the U.S. 2013: Politics, Performance, Policy, and Research Evidence

Research Brief

Alex Molnar, Gary Miron, Luis Huerta, Jennifer King Rice, Larry Cuban, Brian Horvitz, Charisse Gulosino, and Sheryl Rankin Shafer

May 2, 2013

NEPC Review: KIPP Middle Schools: Impacts on Achievement and Other Outcomes (Mathematica Policy Research, February 2013)

NEPC Review

Gregory Camilli

April 30, 2013

Leading Educators Call for a New Direction for Education Reform, Focused on the Opportunity Gap

Newsletter

April 25, 2013

Review of Mayoral Governance and Student Achievement

NEPC Review

Katrina Bulkley

April 23, 2013

Promoting Consumption at School: Health Threats Associated with Schoolhouse Commercialism

Research Brief

Alex Molnar, Faith Boninger, Michael D. Harris, Ken Libby, and Joseph Fogarty

April 18, 2013

Review of Evaluation of Teach for America in Texas Schools

NEPC Review

Ed Fuller and Nathan Dadey

April 9, 2013

Review of Does Sorting Students Improve Test Scores?

NEPC Review

Carol C. Burris and Katherine E. Allison

April 2, 2013

Charter Schools Possess No Magic Formula: Opposing View

Resource Document

Kevin G. Welner

April 1, 2013

NEPC Review: The School Staffing Surge: Decades of Employment Growth in America’s Public Schools, Part II (Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, February 2013)

NEPC Review

Joydeep Roy

March 26, 2013

What Does It Take to Scale Up Innovations?

Policy Brief

Ben Levin

March 14, 2013

Review of Two Articles on Principal Effects

NEPC Review

Margaret Terry Orr

March 5, 2013

Policy Reforms and De-professionalization of Teaching

Policy Brief

Rich Milner

February 28, 2013

Review of State Policy Report Card

NEPC Review

Sherman Dorn and Ken Libby

February 20, 2013

NEPC Review: Charter School Performance in Michigan (January 2013)

NEPC Review

Andrew Maul

February 12, 2013

El National Education Policy Center lanza la Iniciativa del idioma español y anuncia la publicación de documentos breves de política sobre asuntos educativos de importancia fundamental

Newsletter

February 5, 2013

NEPC Review: Have We Identified Effective Teachers? (Gates Foundation, January 2013)

NEPC Review

Jesse Rothstein and William J. Mathis

January 31, 2013

NEPC Review: The Education Choice and Competition Index: Background and Results 2012 (December 2012)

NEPC Review

David R. Garcia

January 29, 2013

Review of Failure Is Not an Option

NEPC Review

Mark Paige

January 15, 2013

Review of New York State Special Education Enrollment Analysis

NEPC Review

Bruce D. Baker

December 6, 2012

Review of The School Staffing Surge

NEPC Review

Joydeep Roy

December 4, 2012

Review of Asking Students About Teaching

NEPC Review

Eric M. Camburn

November 15, 2012

NEPC Review: The Way of the Future: Education Savings Accounts for Every American Family (September 2012)

NEPC Review

Charisse Gulosino and Jonah Liebert

October 23, 2012

How Recent Education Reforms Undermine Local School Governance and Democratic Education

Policy Brief

Kenneth R. Howe and David E. Meens

October 16, 2012

Democratic School Turnarounds: Pursuing Equity and Learning from Evidence

Legislative Brief

Tina Trujillo, Michelle Renée Valladares, and Tara Kini

October 1, 2012

NEPC Review: The Effects of School Vouchers on College Enrollment: Experimental Evidence from New York City (August 2012)

NEPC Review

Sara Goldrick-Rab

September 13, 2012

NEPC Review: Parent Power: Grass-Roots Activism and K-12 Education Reform (American Enterprise Institute, July 2012)

NEPC Review

Michelle Fine and Stan Karp

September 6, 2012

Missing the Target? The Parent Trigger as a Strategy for Parental Engagement and School Reform

Policy Memo

Christopher Lubienski, Janelle T. Scott, John Rogers, and Kevin G. Welner

September 5, 2012

Reviews Worth Sharing: The Irreplaceables: Understanding the Real Retention Crisis in America's Urban Schools (TNTP, July 2012)

Reviews Worth Sharing

Matthew Di Carlo

July 31, 2012

Understanding and Improving Full-Time Virtual Schools

Research Brief

Gary Miron and Jessica Urschel

July 18, 2012

An Analysis of the Use and Validity of Test-Based Teacher Evaluations Reported by the Los Angeles Times: 2011

Research Brief

Catherine S. Durso

June 20, 2012

Charter Schools, Fair Housing, and Legal Standards: A Call for Equal Treatment

Policy Memo

Lisa Hoag Mieritz

June 18, 2012

Spending by the Major Charter Management Organizations: Comparing Charter School and Local Public District Financial Resources

Research Brief

Bruce D. Baker, Ken Libby, and Kathryn Wiley

May 5, 2012

Colorado Disciplinary Practices, 2008-2010: Disciplinary Actions, Student Behaviors, Race, and Gender

Research Brief

Ryan Pfleger and Kathryn Wiley

April 30, 2012

The Lesson of the Cupcakes: Fix Schools by Resisting Gimmicks and Heeding Evidence

Policy Memo

Kevin G. Welner

April 25, 2012

Review of Three Reports from the Comprehensive Longitudinal Evaluation of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program

NEPC Review

Casey Cobb

April 19, 2012

NEPC Review: Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, November 2011)

NEPC Review

Luis Huerta

April 3, 2012

Review of Our Immense Achievement Gap

NEPC Review

Susan Eaton

March 29, 2012

NEPC Review: Overcoming the Governance Challenge in K-12 Online Learning (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, February 2012)

NEPC Review

Michael K. Barbour

March 22, 2012

NEPC Review: The Louisiana Recovery School District: Lessons for the Buckeye State (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, January 2012)

NEPC Review

Kristen L. Buras

March 20, 2012

Review of Gathering Feedback for Teaching: Combining High-Quality Observation with Student Surveys and Achievement Gains

NEPC Review

Cassandra Guarino and Brian Stacy

March 13, 2012

Teacher Job Satisfaction Plummets — Survey

Resource Document

Kevin G. Welner

March 7, 2012

NEPC Review: The Costs of Online Learning (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, January 2012)

NEPC Review

Jennifer King Rice

March 6, 2012

Study's Results Are Flawed and Inconsequential

Resource Document

Kevin G. Welner and Alex Molnar

March 3, 2012

Privatization, Politics, and Policymaking in Public Education

Resource Document

Alex Molnar

March 1, 2012

NEPC Review: On Her Majesty’s School Inspection Service (January 2012)

NEPC Review

Steven Jay Gross

February 28, 2012

Creando equidad: Uso de la legislación y la política de escuelas charter para alcanzar la oportunidad educativa igualitaria

Legislative Brief

Julie F. Mead and Preston Green

February 21, 2012

Chartering Equity: Using Charter School Legislation and Policy to Advance Equal Educational Opportunity

Legislative Brief

Julie F. Mead and Preston Green

February 21, 2012

Miron and Urschel Appendices

Publication

February 17, 2012

NEPC Review: The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood (January 2012)

NEPC Review

Dale Ballou

February 16, 2012

NEPC Review: What’s Trust Got to Do With It? (Public Agenda, December 2011)

NEPC Review

William J. Mathis

February 7, 2012

NEPC Review: Assessing the Compensation of Public-School Teachers (Heritage Foundation, November 2011)

NEPC Review

Jeffrey H. Keefe

January 31, 2012

Researchers as Resources: A List of Experts Who Can Speak to the Overall Knowledge Base on Important Education Issues

Policy Memo

Kevin G. Welner, William J. Mathis, and Alex Molnar

January 23, 2012

Review of Charter-School Management Organizations: Diverse Strategies and Diverse Student Impacts

NEPC Review

Bruce Fuller

January 19, 2012

Creando incentivos docentes para mejorar la excelencia y la equidad en la escuela

Legislative Brief

Barnett Berry and Jon Eckert

January 12, 2012

Creating Teacher Incentives for School Excellence and Equity

Legislative Brief

Barnett Berry, Jon Eckert, and Scott R. Bauries

January 12, 2012

Quality in Student Teaching: Flawed Research Leads to Unsound Recommendations

Reviews Worth Sharing

Susan M. Benner

January 10, 2012

NEPC Review: Gateways to the Principalship: State Power to Improve the Quality of School Leaders (Center for American Progress, October 2011)

NEPC Review

Margaret Terry Orr

January 10, 2012

Profiles of For-Profit and Nonprofit Education Management Organizations: Thirteenth Annual Report - 2010-2011

Research Brief

Gary Miron, Jessica Urschel, Mayra A. Yat Aguilar, and Breanna Dailey

January 6, 2012

Productivity Research, the U.S. Department of Education, and High-Quality Evidence

Policy Brief

Kevin G. Welner and Bruce D. Baker

December 15, 2011

How Many Decades Before 'Reform' Becomes 'Status Quo'?

Resource Document

Kevin G. Welner

December 1, 2011

Review of Organizing Schools to Improve Student Achievement

NEPC Review

Patrick McEwan

November 29, 2011

NEPC Review: Redefining Teacher Pensions: Strategically Defined Benefits for New Teachers and Fiscal Sustainability for All (Center for American Progress, September 2011)

NEPC Review

Teresa Ghilarducci

November 22, 2011

When the Legend Becomes Fact, Print the Fact Sheet

NEPC Review

Matthew Di Carlo

November 11, 2011

NEPC Review: Chartering and Choice as an Achievement Gap-Closing Reform (October 2011)

NEPC Review

David R. Garcia

November 10, 2011

The Educational Cost of Schoolhouse Commercialism

Research Brief

Alex Molnar, Faith Boninger, and Joseph Fogarty

November 7, 2011

Online K-12 Schooling in the U.S.

Legislative Brief

Gene V Glass, Kevin G. Welner, and Justin Bathon

October 25, 2011

NEPC Review: Do High Flyers Maintain Their Altitude? (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, September 2011)

NEPC Review

Jaekyung Lee

October 13, 2011

Discipline Policies, Successful Schools, and Racial Justice

Legislative Brief

Daniel J. Losen

October 5, 2011

NEPC Review: Incomplete: How Middle Class Schools Aren't Making the Grade (September 2011)

NEPC Review

Bruce D. Baker

September 22, 2011

Why Comparing NAEP Poverty Achievement Gaps Across States Doesn’t Work

Reviews Worth Sharing

Bruce D. Baker

September 13, 2011

NEPC Review: Charting New Territory: Tapping Charter Schools to Turn Around the Nation's Dropout Factories (Center for American Progress, June 2011)

NEPC Review

Tina Trujillo

September 13, 2011

Letter to Secretary of Education Arne Duncan Concerning Evaluation of Teachers and Principals

Policy Memo

Kevin G. Welner and Carol C. Burris

July 30, 2011

NEPC Review: Florida Formula for Student Achievement: Lessons for the Nation (ExcelinEd, June 2011)

NEPC Review

William J. Mathis

June 30, 2011

NEPC Review: What Research Says and What It Means for State Policy (May 2011)

NEPC Review

Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

June 16, 2011

NEPC Review: The Comprehensive Longitudinal Evaluation of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program: Summary of Fourth Year Reports (March 2011)

NEPC Review

Clive Belfield

June 2, 2011

NEPC Review: Passing Muster: Evaluating Teacher Evaluation Systems (April 2011)

NEPC Review

Bruce D. Baker

May 18, 2011

Review of Yearning to Break Free: Ohio Superintendents Speak Out

NEPC Review

Catherine Horn and Gary Dworkin

May 3, 2011

NEPC Review: Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best (February 2011)

NEPC Review

David R. Garcia

April 20, 2011

NEPC Review: Spend Smart: Fix Our Broken School Funding (ConnCAN, March 2011)

NEPC Review

Bruce D. Baker

April 14, 2011

Does Debunked Research Influence Governor Walker's Education Reform Agenda?

Newsletter

Alex Molnar

April 7, 2011

Linking Learning to the 21st Century: Preparing All Students for College, Career, and Civic Participation

Legislative Brief

Marisa Saunders and Christopher A. Chrisman

April 7, 2011

NEPC Review: "Cross-Country Evidence on Teacher Performance" and "Merit Pay International" (February 2011)

NEPC Review

Matthias Von Davier

March 31, 2011

How to Calculate the Costs or Savings of Tax Credit Voucher Policies

Policy Memo

Kevin G. Welner

March 17, 2011

NEPC Review: District Awards for Teacher Excellence Program: Final Report (December 2010)

NEPC Review

Donald Gratz

March 3, 2011

Fact Checking the Los Angeles Times’ Defense of Its Teacher Rating Reporting

Newsletter

February 17, 2011

NEPC Review: Reform With Results for New Jersey Schools (December 2010)

NEPC Review

Alan R. Sadovnik

February 10, 2011

Due Diligence and the Evaluation of Teachers

Research Brief

Derek C. Briggs and Ben Domingue

February 8, 2011

Consolidation of Schools and Districts: What the Research Says and What it Means

Policy Brief

Craig Howley, Jerry Johnson, and Jennifer Petrie

February 1, 2011

NEPC Review: Stretching the School Dollar: A Brief for State Policymakers (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, January 2011)

NEPC Review

Bruce D. Baker

January 26, 2011

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