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Educational Accountability 3.0: Beyond ESSA

Resource Document

May 1, 2023

Examining #Optoutsowhite

Newsletter

August 30, 2022

NEPC Review: Equity Elementary: “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” Staff in Public Schools (Heritage Foundation, October 2021)

NEPC Review

Edward García Fierros

January 25, 2022

NEPC Talks Education: An Interview With Derek Briggs and Scott Marion About State and National Test Results

Podcasts

Christopher Saldaña, Derek C. Briggs, and Scott Marion

January 20, 2022

Spring 2021 Exam Results Are In. Now What?

Newsletter

October 28, 2021

NEPC Review: Florida Versus Kentucky: School Choice Improves Public School Performance, Too (Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions, May 2021)

NEPC Review

Samuel E. Abrams and Steven J. Koutsavlis

July 15, 2021

NEPC Review: Education Freedom and Student Achievement: Is More School Choice Associated with Higher State-Level Performance on the NAEP? (University of Arkansas Department of Education Reform, March 2021)

NEPC Review

T. Jameson Brewer and Joel R. Malin

June 16, 2021

Five Myths About Teaching

Newsletter

May 4, 2021

NEPC Talks Education: An Interview with Lorrie Shepard About Standardized Testing Policy

Podcasts

Christopher Saldaña and Lorrie Shepard

April 15, 2021

NEPC Review: School Accountability--Past, Present, and Future (Hoover Institution, November 2020)

NEPC Review

Gail L. Sunderman

February 10, 2021

NEPC Review: Changes in the Performance of Students in Charter and District Sectors of U.S. Education: An Analysis of Nationwide Trends (The Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University, September 2020)

NEPC Review

Yongmei Ni and Eunice S. Han

December 4, 2020

NEPC Review: Student Assessment During COVID-19 (Center for American Progress, September 2020)

NEPC Review

Gene V Glass, William J. Mathis, and David C. Berliner

October 30, 2020

Making Next Year Count: Equity in School Accountability (Bellwether Education Partners, Summer 2020)

NEPC Review

Ed Fuller

October 15, 2020

Coronavirus Testing Cancellations Threatened to Worsen Inequities. So These Students Spoke Out

Newsletter

April 21, 2020

NEPC Review: Charter Schools in Newark: The Effect on Student Test Scores (Manhattan Institute, January 2020)

NEPC Review

Mark Weber

March 17, 2020

Four Big Takeaways About Testing

Newsletter

March 5, 2020

Patience Can Be Rewarded: RAND Report Demonstrates Promise of Embattled NYC Community Schools Model

Newsletter

February 6, 2020

NEPC Review: Fewer Children Left Behind: Lessons From the Dramatic Achievement Gains of the 1990s and 2000s (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, October 2019)

NEPC Review

Jaekyung Lee

November 26, 2019

NEPC Review: The Effects of Means-Tested Private School Choice Programs on College Enrollment and Graduation (Urban Institute, July 2019)

NEPC Review

T. Jameson Brewer

October 17, 2019

Data Walls Demoralize Students. Assessment Expert Lorrie Shepard Explains Why

Newsletter

August 29, 2019

A Weak Defense of a Useless Report

Newsletter

May 2, 2019

NEPC Review: The Michigan Context and Performance Report Card: High Schools 2018 (Mackinac Center, January 2019)

NEPC Review

John T. Yun

April 18, 2019

Researchers Reprise Earlier Erroneous Crime-Cutting Voucher Verdict

Newsletter

March 19, 2019

A Consumer’s Guide to Testing under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA): What Can the Common Core and Other ESSA Assessments Tell Us?

Resource Document

Madhabi Chatterji

March 5, 2019

NEPC Review: The Opportunity Myth (TNTP, September 2018)

NEPC Review

Amanda Datnow

January 24, 2019

NEPC Review: Everything You Know About State Education Rankings Is Wrong (Reason Foundation, November 2018)

NEPC Review

Bruce D. Baker

November 27, 2018

NEPC Fellow Douglas Harris Responds to Critiques of Study, and a Q&A on the Effect of New Orleans School Reforms

Newsletter

November 6, 2018

These Comeback Kids Don’t Bake Cookies: The Community-Based Transformation of an Urban School

Newsletter

October 16, 2018

State-Level Assessments and Teacher Evaluation Systems after the Passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act: Some Steps in the Right Direction

Policy Brief

Kevin Close, Audrey Amrein-Beardsley, and Clarin Collins

June 5, 2018

Apples to Aardvarks: WILL Replicates Erroneous Private School Findings

Newsletter

May 31, 2018

NEPC Review: 2018 State Teacher Policy Best Practices Guide (National Council on Teacher Quality, March 2018)

NEPC Review

Marilyn Cochran-Smith, Elizabeth Stringer Keefe, Wen-Chia Chang, and Molly Cummings Carney

May 24, 2018

Education Interview of the Month: Greg Smith Interviews Ken Zeichner on Independent Teacher Prep Programs

FYI

Gregory A. Smith and Kenneth M. Zeichner

November 14, 2017

NEPC Review: Lights Off: Practice and Impact of Closing Low-Performing Schools (Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO), August 2017)

NEPC Review

Matthew Gaertner and Ben Kirshner

October 24, 2017

NEPC Review: Leveraging ESSA to Support Quality-School Growth (Thomas B. Fordham Institute and Education Cities, March 2017)

NEPC Review

Gail L. Sunderman

June 13, 2017

School Closure as a Strategy to Remedy Low Performance

Policy Brief

Gail L. Sunderman, Erin Coghlan, and Rick Mintrop

May 18, 2017

NEPC Review: Apples to Apples: The Definitive Look at School Test Scores in Milwaukee and Wisconsin (Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, March 2017)

NEPC Review

Benjamin Shear

April 25, 2017

NEPC Review: For Good Measure? Teacher Evaluation Policy in the ESSA Era (Bellwether Education Partners, December 2016)

NEPC Review

Amy N. Farley

February 22, 2017

NEPC Review: High Stakes for High Achievers:
State Accountability in the Age of ESSA (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, August 2016)

NEPC Review

Beth C. Rubin

January 26, 2017

Lessons from NCLB for the Every Student Succeeds Act

Policy Brief

William J. Mathis and Tina Trujillo

November 17, 2016

Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking - 2016 Collection

Policy Brief

William J. Mathis

August 23, 2016

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