Resource Documents
Resource Documents are documents published by NEPC and elsewhere that provide background information and/or guidance on important education policy and practice topics. NEPC Resource Documents may be blind peer reviewed.
Pursuing an "Every Child Thrives" Public School System in North Carolina
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Why What Looked Like Good News for Charter Schools Actually Wasn’t
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Educational Accountability 3.0: Beyond ESSA
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Don’t Go ‘Along’ With Corporate Schemes to Gather up Student Data
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New Report Provides Reality Check on Virtual Schools
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Rethinking Class Size
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The Commercial Transformation of America’s Schools
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New Concerns Raised About a Well-Known Digital Learning Platform
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Dismantling Public Education: Turning Ideology into Gold
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MPS School Board Should Reject Proposal to Increase Class Size
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How Companies Learn What Children Secretly Want
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Divining the Meaning of the Test Scores
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Silver Linings Casebook: How Vergara’s Backers May Lose by Winning
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State Sen. Alberta Darling's Recovery District Idea is Designed to Fail
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The Lost Opportunity of the Common Core State Standards
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New Infographic: Welcome to CharterLand!
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Is American Education on a Bad Track?
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Texas Must Avoid a Return to the Vocational Track
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The Dirty Dozen: How Charter Schools Influence Student Enrollment
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Charter Schools Possess No Magic Formula: Opposing View
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Teacher Job Satisfaction Plummets — Survey
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Study's Results Are Flawed and Inconsequential
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Privatization, Politics, and Policymaking in Public Education
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How Many Decades Before 'Reform' Becomes 'Status Quo'?
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The Neovoucher: A Kissing Cousin in Disguise
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Marketing of Food in Schools: Little Educational or Nutritional Content
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Legislature's Vouchers Report is Based on Smoke and Mirrors
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Under the Voucher Radar
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The Overselling of Growth Modeling
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Accountability, Rigor, and Detracking
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The Privatization Infatuation
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The Commercial and Non-Commercial in Education: A Dialogue
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Truthiness in Education
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The Testing Culture and the Persistence of High Stakes Testing Reforms
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Demanding More of Presidential Candidates
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Money Mutterers
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Diagnostic Assessment with Ordered Multiple-Choice Items
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Alternative Approaches to the Politics of Detracking
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The Diversity Rationale: The Intellectual Roots of an Ideal
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Toward a Deeper Understanding of the Diversity Rationale
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Monolingual Assessment and Emerging Bilinguals: A Case Study in the U.S.
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Dangerous Reading
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Bush Education Law Shows Mixed Results in First Test
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Public Schools Private Markets
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Our Impoverished View of Educational Reform
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Can Irrational Become Unconstitutional? NCLB's 100% Presuppositions
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Inside School Choice: Fifteen Years of Vouchers
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Study Finds Shortcoming in New Law on Education
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A Lucrative Brand of Tutoring Grows Unchecked
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Closing the Achievement Gap by Detracking
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The Soft Bigotry of Low Expenditures
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School Commercialism and Adolescent Health
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Can Irrational Become Unconstitutional? NCLB’s 100% Presuppositions
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Hammers and Saws for the Improvement of Education Research
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On School Choice and Test-Based Accountability
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America's Charter Schools
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Home Schooling: Whose Business Is It?
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Children's Reading Scores Stalled in Major States
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Collapse of 60 Charter Schools Leaves Californians Scrambling
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Fee to Former Superintendent Raises Issues
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Good Schools or Bad? Ratings Baffle Parents
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U.S. Cutting Back on Details in Data About Charter Schools
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Charter Schools Trail in Results, U.S. Data Reveal
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Education for Sale! The Commodification of Everything?
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A Critique of Experimentalism
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Rethinking Expert Testimony in Education Rights Legislation
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Florida's Voucher Programs
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