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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 A. 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

Reviews Worth Sharing: Myths and Facts about Value-Added Analysis (TNTP, November 2011)

Reviews Worth Sharing

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

June 16, 2011

NEPC Review: Class Size: What Research Says and What It Means for State Policy (Brookings Institution, May 2011)

NEPC Review

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

NEPC Review: Students in N.J. Charter Schools Outperform Those in Local School Districts, Data Shows (January 2011)

NEPC Review

Bruce D. Baker

January 26, 2011

Adding Up the Spending: Fiscal Disparities and Philanthropy Among New York City Charter Schools

Research Brief

Bruce D. Baker and Richard Ferris

January 26, 2011

Two Thumbs Down: Education Documentaries Fictionalize Research

Newsletter

January 24, 2011

Review of Waiting for Superman

NEPC Review

Elizabeth Dutro

January 24, 2011

Review of The Lottery

NEPC Review

William Tate

January 24, 2011

Deficiencies & Misinterpretations in the Center for American Progress Method for Measuring and Comparing School District Return on Investment

Reviews Worth Sharing

Bruce D. Baker

January 22, 2011

NEPC Review: Charter Schools: A Report on Rethinking the Federal Role in Education (December 2010)

NEPC Review

Gary Miron

January 20, 2011

NEPC Review: Learning About Teaching (December 2010)

NEPC Review

Jesse Rothstein

January 13, 2011

Understanding Costs and Inflation

Reviews Worth Sharing

Bruce D. Baker

January 12, 2011

NEPC Review: U.S. Math Performance in Global Perspective: How Well Does Each State Do at Producing High-Achieving Students? (November 2010)

NEPC Review

Jeremy Kilpatrick

January 11, 2011

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

Reviews Worth Sharing

Bruce D. Baker

January 7, 2011

Reviews Worth Sharing: The Attack on American Education (December 2010)

Reviews Worth Sharing

Bruce D. Baker

December 23, 2010

Profiles of Nonprofit Education Management Organizations: 2009-2010

Research Brief

Gary Miron and Jessica Urschel

December 15, 2010

NEPC Review: 2010 State School Report Card (October 2010)

NEPC Review

Edward García Fierros and Bridget Rooney

December 14, 2010

Profiles of For-Profit Education Management Organizations: Twelfth Annual Report - 2009-2010

Research Brief

Alex Molnar, Gary Miron, and Jessica Urschel

December 9, 2010

Getting Teacher Assessment Right: What Policymakers Can Learn From Research

Policy Brief

Patricia H. Hinchey

December 7, 2010

Effectively Embedded: The Thirteenth Annual Report on Schoolhouse Commercializing Trends: 2009-2010

Research Brief

Alex Molnar, Faith Boninger, Gary Wilkinson, Joseph Fogarty, and Sean Geary

December 2, 2010

NEPC Review: Closing the Racial Achievement Gap (September 2010)

NEPC Review

Madhabi Chatterji

November 30, 2010

NEPC Review: An Analysis of Arizona Individual Income Tax-Credit Scholarship Recipients' Family Income (October 2010)

NEPC Review

Casey Cobb

November 18, 2010

NEPC Review: Teacher Evaluation 2.0 (TNTP, October 2010)

NEPC Review

Rich Milner

November 16, 2010

Blueprint Reviews Now Available Online

Newsletter

Wendy C. Chi

October 5, 2010

NEPC Review: College- and Career-Ready Students (May 2010)

NEPC Review

Diane Ravitch and William J. Mathis

October 5, 2010

NEPC Review: Great Teachers and Great Leaders (May 2010)

NEPC Review

Paul Shaker

October 5, 2010

NEPC Review: A Complete Education (May 2010)

NEPC Review

Beth Warren

October 5, 2010

NEPC Review: Meeting the Needs of English Learners and Other Diverse Learners (May 2010)

NEPC Review

Janette K. Klingner

October 5, 2010

NEPC Review: Successful, Safe, and Healthy Students (May 2010)

NEPC Review

Gene V Glass, Kevin G. Welner, and W. Steven Barnett

October 5, 2010

NEPC Review: Fostering Innovation and Excellence (May 2010)

NEPC Review

Clive Belfield

October 5, 2010

Introduction: Assessing the Research Base for A Blueprint for Reform

Policy Brief

William J. Mathis and Kevin G. Welner

October 5, 2010

Safe at School: Addressing the School Environment and LGBT Safety through Policy and Legislation

Legislative Brief

Stuart Biegel and Sheila James Kuehl

September 30, 2010

The "Common Core" Standards Initiative: An Effective Reform Tool?

Policy Brief

William J. Mathis

July 21, 2010

NEPC Review: The Impact of a Universal Class-Size Reduction Policy: Evidence from Florida’s Statewide Mandate (May 2010)

NEPC Review

Jeremy D. Finn

July 14, 2010

Equal or Fair? A Study of Revenues and Expenditures in American Charter Schools

Research Brief

Gary Miron and Jessica Urschel

June 29, 2010

Teach For America: A Review of the Evidence

Policy Brief

Julian Vasquez Heilig and Su Jin Jez

June 9, 2010

Urban School Decentralization and the Growth of "Portfolio Districts"

Policy Brief

Kenneth Saltman

June 2, 2010

NEPC Review: Charter School Autonomy: A Half-Broken Promise (Thomas B. Fordham Institute and Public Impact, April 2010)

NEPC Review

Charisse Gulosino

May 26, 2010

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