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Review of Turning Lightning into Electricity

NEPC Review

Mark R. Warren

February 2, 2015

“School Choice Week” is a Good Time to Review the Evidence

Newsletter

January 27, 2015

Why School Report Cards Merit a Failing Grade

Policy Brief

Kenneth R. Howe and Kevin Murray

January 26, 2015

Researchers Urge Caution Regarding Expected SOTU Push to Expand Career and Technical Education

Newsletter

January 20, 2015

NEPC Review: No Excuses Charter Schools: A Meta-Analysis of the Experimental Evidence (University of Arkansas Department of Education Reform, December 2014)

NEPC Review

Jeanne M. Powers

January 20, 2015

NEPC Review: Proposed 2015 Federal Teacher Preparation Regulations (U.S. Department of Education, December 2014)

NEPC Review

Kevin K. Kumashiro

January 12, 2015

Review of Better Data, Better Decisions and A Crisis We Can Solve

NEPC Review

Erin McNamara Horvat and David Everington Baugh

January 5, 2015

NEPC Review: The Economic Benefits of Closing Educational Achievement Gaps (Center for American Progress, November 2014)

NEPC Review

Clive Belfield

December 4, 2014

Personalized Instruction: New Interest, Old Rhetoric, Limited Results, and the Need for a New Direction for Computer-Mediated Learning

Policy Brief

Noel Enyedy

November 24, 2014

ALEC ‘Report Card’ Recycles Bogus School Quality and Improvement Claims

Newsletter

November 7, 2014

Review of Federal School Finance Reform

NEPC Review

Gail L. Sunderman

November 6, 2014

Review of Virtual Schooling and Student Learning

NEPC Review

Michael K. Barbour

October 28, 2014

National Education Policy Center Launches “Schools of Opportunity” Project To Recognize Top High Schools

Newsletter

October 2, 2014

NEPC Review: A Meta-Analysis of the Literature on the Effect of Charter Schools on Student Achievement (Center on Reinventing Public Education, August 2014)

NEPC Review

Francesca López

September 30, 2014

Review of The Efficiency Index

NEPC Review

Clive Belfield

September 23, 2014

Report of the Special Rapporteur in the Field of Cultural Rights

Publication

Farida Shaheed

September 17, 2014

Review of Seeds of Achievement

NEPC Review

W. Steven Barnett and Cynthia E. Lamy

September 16, 2014

NEPC Review: Lacking Leaders: The Challenges of Principal Recruitment, Selection, and Placement (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, June 2014)

NEPC Review

Arnold Danzig

September 9, 2014

NEPC Review: The Productivity of Public Charter Schools (University of Arkansas Department of Education Reform, July 2014)

NEPC Review

Gene V Glass

August 19, 2014

NEPC Review: Preparing Principals to Raise Student Achievement: Implementation and Effects of the New Leaders Program in Ten Districts (RAND Corporation, May 2014)

NEPC Review

Ed Fuller

June 26, 2014

Debate Intensifies over Value-Added Research

Newsletter

June 24, 2014

Review of Expanding the Education Universe

NEPC Review

Patricia Burch, Jahni Smith, and Mary Stewart

June 19, 2014

Review of The State Education Agency: At the Helm, Not the Oar

NEPC Review

Peter W. Cookson, Jr.

June 17, 2014

NEPC Review: New York City's Children First: Lessons in School Reform (Center for American Progress, March 2014)

NEPC Review

Randall Reback

June 3, 2014

Review of Two Alternative Teacher Preparation Proposals

NEPC Review

William J. Mathis

May 29, 2014

NEPC Review: Charter School Funding: Inequity Expands (School Choice Demonstration Project and University of Arkansas Department of Education Reform, April 2014)

NEPC Review

Bruce D. Baker

May 20, 2014

Wait, Wait. Don’t Mislead Me! Nine Reasons to Be Skeptical About Charter Waitlist Numbers

Policy Memo

Kevin G. Welner and Gary Miron

May 5, 2014

NEPC and Its Work Win Awards at American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting

Newsletter

April 17, 2014

Review of The Effect of Co-locations on Student Achievement in NYC Public Schools

NEPC Review

Tina Trujillo and Marialena Rivera

April 15, 2014

Review of Measuring the Impacts of Teachers

NEPC Review

Moshe Adler

April 10, 2014

Review of The Economic Benefits of New York City's Public School Reforms, 2002-2013

NEPC Review

Sean P. Corcoran

March 31, 2014

The Lost Opportunity of the Common Core State Standards

Resource Document

Kevin G. Welner

March 26, 2014

Seeing Past the “Colorblind” Myth of Education Policy

Policy Brief

Amy Stuart Wells

March 20, 2014

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

NEPC Review: Weighted School Funding for California (Reason Foundation)

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

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