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Think Tank Reviews: 2025

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NEPC Review: A State-Level Perspective on School Spending and Educational Outcomes (Brookings Institution, September 2025)

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Mark Weber

December 12, 2025

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NEPC Review: ESA’s in Arizona: Q3 2025 Report (Common Sense Institute Arizona, October 2025)

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David R. Garcia

December 4, 2025

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NEPC Review: Wisconsin’s Most Cost-Effective K-12 Program (School Choice Wisconsin, August 2025)

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Bruce D. Baker

October 28, 2025

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NEPC Review: Productive Struggle: How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Learning, Effort, and Youth Development in Education (Bellwether, June 2025)

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Thomas M. Philip

October 21, 2025

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NEPC Review: Let’s Get Ready! Educating All Americans for Success (National Governors Association, July 2025)

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Ryan Pfleger

October 14, 2025

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NEPC Review: Directional Signals: A New Analysis of the Evolving Private School Choice Landscape (FutureEd, July 2025)

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Christopher Lubienski

September 30, 2025

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NEPC Review: Fiscal Factbook: 2025 Edition (EdChoice, July 2025)

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Mark Weber

September 4, 2025

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NEPC Review: Apples to Apples: The Definitive Look at School Test Scores in Milwaukee and Wisconsin for 2024 (Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, March 2025)

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Benjamin R. Shear

June 10, 2025

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NEPC Review: The Enrollment Decline Windfall (EdChoice, February 2025)

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David E. DeMatthews and Jinseok Shin

May 8, 2025

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NEPC Review: The Persistence of Religious Discrimination in Publicly Funded Pre-K Programs (Manhattan Institute, January 2025)

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Joshua Weishart

May 1, 2025

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NEPC Review: Testing Theories of Why: Four Keys to Interpreting US Student Achievement Trends (American Enterprise Institute, January 2025)

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Chris Domaleski

April 25, 2025

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NEPC Review: Thousands Served: Students with Disabilities in Wisconsin’s Parental Choice Programs (School Choice Wisconsin and Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, January 2025)

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Maria M. Lewis and Julie F. Mead

April 8, 2025

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NEPC Review: Making the Grade: Accounting for Course Selection in High School Transcripts with Item Response Theory (Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, December 2024)

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Michael Russell

March 25, 2025

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NEPC Review: Fiscal Effects of School Choice: The Costs and Savings of Private School Choice Programs in America Through FY 2022 (EdChoice, October 2024)

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Mark Weber

February 11, 2025

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NEPC Review: Think Again: Are Education Programs for High Achievers Inherently Inequitable? (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, October 2024)

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Margaret Thornton

February 4, 2025

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NEPC Review: Underachieving and Underenrolled: Chronically Low-Performing Schools in the Post-Pandemic Era (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, September 2024)

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Sally Nuamah

January 29, 2025

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NEPC Review: Resource Realities: A Comparative Analysis of Charter and District School Funding in Washington, D.C. (Bellwether, November 2024)

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Clive Belfield

January 21, 2025