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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

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

NEPC Review

Ed Fuller

October 15, 2020

The Misguided Push to Reintroduce Standardized Testing During the Pandemic

Newsletter

August 6, 2020

NEPC Review: Comparing Ed Reforms: Assessing the Experimental Research on Nine K-12 Education Reforms (EdChoice, April 2020)

NEPC Review

Bruce D. Baker

May 27, 2020

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

NEPC Review

Mark Weber

March 17, 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: Rising Tide: Charter School Market Share and Student Achievement (Thomas B. Fordham Institute , September 2019)

NEPC Review

Yongmei Ni

November 14, 2019

Data Walls Demoralize Students. Assessment Expert Lorrie Shepard Explains Why

Newsletter

August 29, 2019

NEPC Review: Student Achievement in Florida's Charter Schools (Florida Department of Education, March 2019)

NEPC Review

Robert Bifulco

June 18, 2019

Review Identifies Flaws in High-Profile “Gold Standard” Study Used to Market TFA

Newsletter

May 23, 2019

Reviews Worth Sharing: The Effectiveness of Secondary Math Teachers from Teach for America and the Teaching Fellows Programs (Institute of Education Sciences, September 2013)

Reviews Worth Sharing

Andrew Brantlinger and Matthew Griffin

May 23, 2019

NEPC Review: The Effects of the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program on College Enrollment and Graduation: An Update (Urban Institute, February 2019)

NEPC Review

Jaekyung Lee

March 28, 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: Making a Difference: Six Places Where Teacher Evaluation Systems Are Getting Results (National Council on Teacher Quality, October 2018)

NEPC Review

Amy N. Farley and Leah Chamberlain

December 4, 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

School Poverty Rates: How High Before They Harm Students?

Newsletter

October 25, 2018

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

Newsletter

October 16, 2018

NEPC Review: Fiscal and Education Spillovers from Charter School Expansion (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, July 2018)

NEPC Review

Clive Belfield

October 5, 2018

NEPC Review: Systems for Success: Thinking Beyond Access to AP (The Education Trust, July 2017)

NEPC Review

Beth C. Rubin

September 25, 2018

Are Four-Day Weeks Bad for Students?

Newsletter

September 4, 2018

Reviews Worth Sharing: An Impact Analysis of North Carolina's Opportunity Scholarship Program on Student Achievement (June 2018)

Reviews Worth Sharing

Kristopher Nordstrom

July 12, 2018

NEPC Review: Bigger Bang, Fewer Bucks? (University of Arkansas Department of Education Reform, February 2018)

NEPC Review

Julian Vasquez Heilig

May 10, 2018

NEPC Review: Do Impacts on Test Scores Even Matter? (American Enterprise Institute, March 2018)

NEPC Review

Christopher Lubienski and T. Jameson Brewer

May 3, 2018

Full-Time Virtual and Blended Schools: Enrollment, Student Characteristics, and Performance

Research Brief

Gary Miron, Christopher Shank, and Caryn Davidson

May 1, 2018

NEPC Review: Charter Schools and the Achievement Gap (Brookings Institution, February 2018)

NEPC Review

Chris Torres and Joanne W. Golann

April 11, 2018

Education Interview of the Month: Greg Smith Interviews Warren Simmons About Systemic Change in Schools

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Gregory A. Smith and Warren Simmons

March 7, 2018

NEPC Review: Evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund: Final Report on Implementation and Impact of Pay-for-Performance Across Four Years (Institute of Education Sciences, December 2017)

NEPC Review

Francesca López

February 27, 2018

NEPC Review: Balancing Act: Schools, Neighborhoods, and Racial Imbalance (Brookings Institution, November 2017)

NEPC Review

Genevieve Siegel-Hawley and Erica Frankenberg

February 8, 2018

Don't Expect Too Much: The Limited Usefulness of Common SES Measures and a Prescription for Change

Policy Brief

Michael Harwell

January 30, 2018

NEPC Review: School District Reform in Newark (National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2017)

NEPC Review

Mark Weber and Bruce D. Baker

December 14, 2017

NEPC Review: Teacher Absenteeism in Charter and Traditional Public Schools (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, September 2017)

NEPC Review

Patricia H. Hinchey

November 7, 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: Charter Management Organizations 2017 (Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO), June 2017)

NEPC Review

Gary Miron and Christopher Shank

September 7, 2017

A Continuous Improvement Approach to Indicator Development

FYI

William R. Penuel, Michelle Renée Valladares, and Elizabeth J. Meyer

July 19, 2017

NEPC Review: Back to the Staffing Surge: The Great Teacher Salary Stagnation and the Decades-Long Employment Growth in American Public Schools (EdChoice, May 2017)

NEPC Review

Joydeep Roy and William J. Mathis

July 5, 2017

NEPC Review: Understanding a Vicious Cycle: Do Out-of-School Suspensions Impact Student Test Scores? (University of Arkansas Department of Education Reform, March 2017)

NEPC Review

Brea L. Perry and Daniel J. Losen

June 1, 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: New York Charter Schools Outperform Traditional Selective Public Schools: More Evidence that Cream-Skimming is Not Driving Charters' Success (Manhattan Institute , March 2017)

NEPC Review

Sarah Cordes

May 9, 2017

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