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NEPC Review: Updating Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century (Lexington Institute, February 2014)

NEPC Review

Marisa Saunders and Jaime Del Razo

March 18, 2014

Review of A New Frontier: Utilizing Charter Schooling to Strengthen Rural Education

NEPC Review

Craig Howley

March 13, 2014

Schoolhouse Commercialism Leaves Policymakers Behind

Research Brief

Alex Molnar, Faith Boninger, Ken Libby, and Joseph Fogarty

March 11, 2014

NEPC Review: Pluck & Tenacity: How Five Private Schools in Ohio Have Adapted to Vouchers (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, January 2014)

NEPC Review

Christopher Lubienski and T. Jameson Brewer

March 6, 2014

Virtual Schools in the U.S. 2014: Politics, Performance, Policy, and Research Evidence

Research Brief

Alex Molnar, Luis Huerta, Jennifer King Rice, Sheryl Rankin Shafer, Michael K. Barbour, Gary Miron, Charisse Gulosino, and Brian Horvitz

March 4, 2014

Review of A Legal Lever for Enhancing Productivity

NEPC Review

Clive Belfield

February 27, 2014

Review of Should Charter Schools Pay Rent?

NEPC Review

Bruce D. Baker

February 20, 2014

Does Class Size Matter?

Policy Brief

Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

February 18, 2014

Review of Transfer Incentives for High-Performing Teachers

NEPC Review

Donald Gratz

January 28, 2014

Bunkum Awards Winners Brookings and StudentsFirst Reprise Their Shoddy Research

Newsletter

January 23, 2014

Review of Fixing Classroom Observations: How Common Core Will Change the Way We Look at Teaching

NEPC Review

Jennie Whitcomb

January 21, 2014

Teach for America: A Return to the Evidence

Policy Brief

Julian Vasquez Heilig and Su Jin Jez

January 7, 2014

Review of An Opportunity Culture for All: Making Teaching a Highly Paid, High-Impact Profession

NEPC Review

Patricia H. Hinchey

December 12, 2013

Profiles of For-Profit and Nonprofit Education Management Organizations: Fourteenth Edition – 2011-2012

Research Brief

Gary Miron and Charisse Gulosino

November 26, 2013

NEPC Review: Understanding Illinois’ Broken Education Funding System: A Primer (Illinois Policy Center, October 2013)

NEPC Review

Amy E. Schwartz and Sarah Cordes

November 21, 2013

Review of School Choice and School Performance in the New York City Public Schools

NEPC Review

Patricia Burch, Mary Stewart, and Jahni Smith

November 19, 2013

School Self-Evaluation and Inspection for Improving U.S. Schools?

Policy Brief

Katherine E. Ryan, Tysza Gandha, and Jeehae Ahn

November 12, 2013

NEPC Review: Why the Gap? Special Education and New York City Charter Schools (Center on Reinventing Public Education and Manhattan Institute, September 2013)

NEPC Review

Julie F. Mead

November 7, 2013

Much Ado about Politics (and Much Ignored about Research Evidence)

Policy Memo

Kevin G. Welner

November 6, 2013

Representative CERU Publications (prepared for United Nations Consultation on “The Impact of Advertising on Cultural Rights”)

Resource Document

Alex Molnar

October 28, 2013

Data-Driven Improvement and Accountability

Legislative Brief

Andy Hargreaves, Henry Braun, and Kathleen Gebhardt

October 22, 2013

Financing Online Education and Virtual Schooling: A Guide for Policymakers and Advocates

Legislative Brief

Bruce D. Baker and Justin Bathon

October 15, 2013

Review of Two Presentations on the Portfolio School Model

NEPC Review

Elizabeth DeBray and Huriya Jabbar

October 8, 2013

Play “CharterLand,” from the Opportunity to Learn Campaign

Newsletter

September 9, 2013

New Infographic: Welcome to CharterLand!

Resource Document

Opportunity to Learn Campaign and Kevin G. Welner

September 6, 2013

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

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