NEPC Resources on Poverty
Christopher Saldaña, Sarah Lenhoff, Jeremy Singer, Katherine Michelmore (). NEPC Talks Education: An Interview With Sarah Lenhoff, Jeremy Singer, and Katherine Michelmore About Education Policy. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/podcast-saldana-lenhoff-singer-michelmore
Christopher Lubienski, T. Jameson Brewer (). NEPC Review: K-12 Without Borders: Public School Students, Families, and Teachers Shut In by Education Boundaries (Manhattan Institute, November 2022). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/thinktank/boundaries
(). The Concerning Connection Between School Spending, Poverty, and Race. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/newsletter-poverty-022323
(). Another Troubling Link Between K-12 Spending and Student Demographics. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/newsletter-funding-poverty-112922
Erica Frankenberg (). NEPC Review: Priced Out of Public Schools: District Lines, Housing Access, and Inequitable Educational Options (Bellwether Education Partners, October 2021). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/thinktank/housing
Kate Baca, Michelle Renée Valladares (). Centering Students’ Past and Present to Advance Equity in the Future. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/cuba
(). Why Educational Funding Is More Than School Funding. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/newsletter-educational-funding-100721
(). The “Great Equalizer” Myth. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/newsletter-great-equalizer-100521
(). “Deep Poverty”: What It Is and Why It Matters to Schools. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/newsletter-deep-poverty-022321
(). More Than One in Five Americans is Food Insecure. It’s Even Worse for Kids. . Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/newsletter-food-insecurity-110520
Kristen L. Buras (). From Katrina to COVID-19: How Disaster, Federal Neglect, and the Market Compound Racial Inequities. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/katrina-covid
Michael Harwell (). NEPC Review: Measuring Student Poverty: Developing Accurate Counts for School Funding, Accountability, and Research (Urban Institute, December 2019). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/thinktank/student-poverty
Martin Carnoy, Roxana Marachi (). Investing for "Impact" or Investing for Profit? Social Impact Bonds, Pay for Success, and the Next Wave of Privatization of Social Services and Education. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/social-impact-bonds
(). Will 2020 Be the Year of Acknowledging Opportunity Gaps?. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/newsletter-opportunity-gap-012320
Jaekyung Lee (). NEPC Review: Fewer Children Left Behind: Lessons From the Dramatic Achievement Gains of the 1990s and 2000s (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, October 2019). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/thinktank/achievement
(). Five Charts That Show Why We Really Need to Track Educational Equity. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/newsletter-equity-100819
(). Six Ways Trump “Public Benefits” Policies Could Harm Children. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/newsletter-benefits-082219
(). Review Identifies Flaws in High-Profile “Gold Standard” Study Used to Market TFA. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/newsletter-tfa-052319
Andrew Brantlinger , Matthew Griffin (). Reviews Worth Sharing: The Effectiveness of Secondary Math Teachers from Teach for America and the Teaching Fellows Programs (Institute of Education Sciences, September 2013). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/thinktank/tfa
(). A Weak Defense of a Useless Report. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/newsletter-yun-response-050219
John T. Yun (). NEPC Review: The Michigan Context and Performance Report Card: High Schools 2018 (Mackinac Center, January 2019). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/thinktank/rankings
(). The Education Debt. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/newsletter-education-debt-112018
Gregory A. Smith, Noliwe Rooks (). Education Interview of the Month: Greg Smith Interviews Noliwe Rooks on School Segregation. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/smith-rooks
(). The Connection Between Poverty, Race and College Preparation in Five Charts. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/newsletter-poverty-110818
(). NEPC Fellow Douglas Harris Responds to Critiques of Study, and a Q&A on the Effect of New Orleans School Reforms. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/newsletter-NOLA-081418
(). At This School, Student Discipline Is Often an Opportunity to Learn. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/newsletter-discipline-110118
(). School Poverty Rates: How High Before They Harm Students?. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/newsletter-poverty-102518
Genevieve Siegel-Hawley, Erica Frankenberg (). NEPC Review: Balancing Act: Schools, Neighborhoods, and Racial Imbalance (Brookings Institution, November 2017). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/thinktank/review-school-segregation
Gregory A. Smith, Kenneth M. Zeichner (). Education Interview of the Month: Greg Smith Interviews Ken Zeichner on Independent Teacher Prep Programs. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/smith-zeichner
Matthew Gaertner, Ben Kirshner (). NEPC Review: Lights Off: Practice and Impact of Closing Low-Performing Schools (Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO), August 2017). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/thinktank/review-closures
Jennifer Jellison Holme, Emily Germain (). NEPC Review: Renewing Our Cities (EdChoice, March 2017). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/thinktank/review-choice
Maia Cucchiara (). NEPC Review: Hidden Money: The Outsized Role of Parent Contributions in School Finance (Center for American Progress, April 2017). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/thinktank/review-fundraising
Janelle T. Scott, Michele S. Moses, Kara Finnigan, Tina Trujillo, Darrell Jackson (). Law and Order in School and Society: How Discipline and Policing Policies Harm Students of Color, and What We Can Do About It. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/law-and-order
Kevin G. Welner (). Lifting All Children Up. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/fyi-lifting-all-children
Erica Frankenberg (). NEPC Review: Segregation, Race, and Charter Schools: What Do We Know? (Brookings Institution, October 2016). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/thinktank/review-segregation
William J. Mathis, Tina Trujillo (). Lessons from NCLB for the Every Student Succeeds Act. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/lessons-from-NCLB
Kenneth M. Zeichner (). Independent Teacher Education Programs: Apocryphal Claims, Illusory Evidence. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/teacher-education
William J. Mathis (). Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking - 2016 Collection. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/research-based-options
Julia Daniel, Kevin G. Welner, Michelle Renée Valladares (). Research-Based Expectations for Implementation of the Community Schools Initiative in New York City. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/community-schools
Kevin G. Welner (). Lifting All Children Up. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/lifting-all-children
Jaime Del Razo (). NEPC Review: SchoolGrades.org (Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, September 2015). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/thinktank/review-of-schoolgrades-org
Sharon L. Nichols (). NEPC Review: Lessons From State Performance on NAEP: Why Some High-Poverty Students Score Better Than Others (Center for American Progress , January 2016). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/thinktank/review-CAP-standards
Amy Stuart Wells (). Diverse Housing, Diverse Schooling: How Policy Can Stabilize Racial Demographic Change in Cities and Suburbs. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/housing-school-nexus
Sarah Lubienski (). NEPC Review: The Hidden Value of Curriculum Reform: Do States and Districts Receive the Most Bang for Their Curriculum Buck? (Center for American Progress, October 2015). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/thinktank/review-curriculum
W. Steven Barnett (). NEPC Review: Do We Already Have Universal Preschool? (Brookings Institution, September 2015). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/thinktank/review-universal-preschool
William J. Mathis (). Divining the Meaning of the Test Scores. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/divining-meaning
(). NAEPscuses: Making Sense of Excuse-Making from the No-Excuses Contingent. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/naepscuses
Kevin G. Welner (). NAEPscuses: Making Sense of Excuse-Making from the No-Excuses Contingent. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/naepscuses
Jennifer King Rice (). Investing in Equal Opportunity: What Would it Take to Build the Balance Wheel?. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/balance-wheel
Marvin Lazerson, Ryan Pfleger (). NEPC Review: Increasing Education: What it Will and Will Not Do for Earnings and Earnings Inequality (The Hamilton Project, March 2015). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/thinktank/review-increasing-education
Alex Molnar (). State Sen. Alberta Darling's Recovery District Idea is Designed to Fail. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/state-sen-alberta-darling
Kevin G. Welner, William J. Mathis (). Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act: Time to Move Beyond Test-Focused Policies. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/esea
Kevin K. Kumashiro (). NEPC Review: Proposed 2015 Federal Teacher Preparation Regulations (U.S. Department of Education, December 2014). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/thinktank/review-proposed-teacher-preparation
Gail L. Sunderman (). Review of Federal School Finance Reform. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/thinktank/review-title-1-reason-foundation
Gene V Glass (). NEPC Review: The Productivity of Public Charter Schools (University of Arkansas Department of Education Reform, July 2014). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/thinktank/review-productivity-public-charter
Amy Stuart Wells (). Seeing Past the “Colorblind” Myth of Education Policy. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/seeing-past-the-colorblind-myth
Marisa Saunders, Jaime Del Razo (). NEPC Review: Updating Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century (Lexington Institute, February 2014). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/thinktank/review-updating-career-technical-ed
(). Does Class Size Matter?. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/does-class-size-matter
Patricia Burch, Mary Stewart, Jahni Smith (). Review of School Choice and School Performance in the New York City Public Schools . Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/thinktank/review-school-choice-nyc-brookings
William J. Mathis (). Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking - 2013 Collection. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/options
(). Leading Educators Call for a New Direction for Education Reform, Focused on the Opportunity Gap. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/leading-educators
Mark Paige (). Review of Failure Is Not an Option. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/thinktank/review-failure-not-option
(). Two Thumbs Down: Education Documentaries Fictionalize Research. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/two-thumbs
Alex Molnar, Douglas N. Harris, Gene V Glass, Lisa Abrams, Madhabi Chatterji, Mary Lee Smith, Sherman Dorn, Tim Hacsi, Victoria-Maria MacDonald (). Reform Florida. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/reform-florida
(). Arizona Report Finds Poorest Gain Little from Tax Credits. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/arizona-report-finds-poorest-gain-little-from-tax-credits
Gerald W. Bracey (). What They Did on Vacation: It's Not Schools That Are Failing Poor Kids. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/what-they-did-vacation-its-not-schools-that-are-failing-poor-kids
Gerald W. Bracey (). Poverty Issues Get Short Shrift in Today's Education Debate. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/poverty-issues-get-short-shrift-todays-education-debate