NEPC Resources on Politics
Kevin G. Welner (). What Would It Mean if President-Elect Trump Dismantled the US Department of Education?. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/rd-dept-ed
(). The Presidential Election and K-12 Education. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/newsletter-election-110524
(). The Elections and Issues Around Racial and Ethnic Diversity. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/newsletter-henry-102924
(). Community Schools and the Elections. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/newsletter-saunders-102224
(). National School Lunch Program and the 2024 Elections. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/newsletter-schanzenbach-101724
Christopher Saldaña, Joshua Cowen, Kevin Lawrence Henry, Jr. (). NEPC Talks Education: An Interview With Josh Cowen and Kevin Lawrence Henry, Jr. About Privatization, School Choice, and Culture Wars. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/podcast-saldana-cowen-henry
(). What Will Happen to Bilingual Education After the Elections?. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/newsletter-bilingual-101024
(). Testing and Accountability: The Federal Role. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/newsletter-shepard-092624
(). Federally Funded School Vouchers: Contrasting Party Views. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/newsletter-cowen-091924
Christopher Saldaña, David Houston (). NEPC Talks Education: An Interview With David Houston About Partisanship and Polarization in Ed Policy. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/podcast-saldana-houston
(). Help or Harmful? The Federal Role in Supporting Students with Disabilities in Schools. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/newsletter-fierros-090324
(). Protections Against Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Discrimination in Schools: The Federal Role. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/newsletter-meyer-082924
(). What Role Should the Federal Government Play in Education Policy?. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/newsletter-debray-082224
(). Communicating About CRT in K-12. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/newsletter-crt-040424
Gloria Ladson-Billings (). Truths My Teacher Can't Tell Me: The Politics of Today's Curriculum. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/fyi-video-ladson-billings
(). Testing is Broken. Can This Bill Fix It?. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/newsletter-dc-briefing-100523
Christopher Saldaña, Beth Schueler, Domingo Morel, David DeMatthews (). NEPC Talks Education: An Interview With Beth Schueler, Domingo Morel, and David DeMatthews About District Takeovers. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/podcast-saldana-schueler-morel-dematthews
(). How Much Do You Know About School Vouchers? . Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/newsletter-voucher-quiz-052523
Christine Sleeter, David R. Garcia (). NEPC Review: School Choice Is Not Enough: The Impact of Critical Social Justice Ideology in American Education (Manhattan Institute, February 2023). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/review/csj
(). Governor DeSantis Scuffles With Woke and Insolent Chatbots. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/newsletter-woke-040123
(). ICYMI: NEPC’s Top Newsletters of 2022. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/newsletter-top-five-012623
(). Five Charts That Show How Partisan Strife Is Impacting Public Schools. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/newsletter-democracy-120622
Christopher Saldaña, David R. Garcia (). NEPC Talks Education: An Interview With David Garcia About the Use of Research in Education Policy. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/podcast-saldana-garcia
(). Taking Stock of the GOP School Board Takeover Strategy. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/newsletter-school-board-090122
(). The School-to-Deportation Pipeline: The Other School Safety Concern. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/newsletter-undocumented-081822
Kevin G. Welner (). Why Is the Charter Lobby So Upset About Biden’s Proposed Regulations?. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/newsletter-csp-04122022
Kevin D. Brown (). NEPC Review: How to Regulate Critical Race Theory in Schools: A Primer and Model Legislation (Manhattan Institute, August 2021). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/thinktank/crt-regulation
(). School Controversies Dominated This Contentious Election Cycle. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/newsletter-election-111121
Francesca López, Alex Molnar, Royel Johnson, Ashley Patterson, LaWanda Ward, Kevin K. Kumashiro (). Understanding the Attacks on Critical Race Theory. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/crt
(). Youth Organizing in America: Nine Things You Need to Know. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/newsletter-youth-organizing-051821
Christopher Saldaña, Bruce D. Baker, Preston Green (). NEPC Talks Education: An Interview with Bruce Baker and Preston Green About Pandemic Relief Funds. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/podcast-saldana-baker-green
Ruth M. López (). The (Mis)Treatment and (Non)Education of Unaccompanied Immigrant Children in the United States. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/immigrant-children
Christopher Lubienski (). NEPC Review: Toward Equitable School Choice (Hoover Institution, November 2020). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/thinktank/equitable-choice
(). Civic Reasoning and Discourse Skills Were Sorely Lacking Among the Perpetrators of Last Week’s Attack on the Capitol. What Can Schools Do to Help?. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/newsletter-capitol-riot-011421
Janelle T. Scott, Genevieve Siegel-Hawley, Elizabeth DeBray, Erica Frankenberg, Kathryn McDermott (). An Agenda for Restoring Civil Rights in K-12 Federal Education Policy. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/restoring-civil-rights
(). What’s Next for PreK-12 Funding? Austerity, Subsistence or Investment? . Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/newsletter-post-election-funding-111920
(). School and Society in the Age of Trump. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/newsletter-trump-092920
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
Frank Adamson, Allison Brown, Kevin G. Welner (). Austerity, Subsistence, or Investment: Will Congress and the President Choose to Bail Out Our Children’s Future?. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/austerity
Christopher Saldaña, Daniel Markovits (). Education Interview of the Month: Christopher Saldaña Interviews Daniel Markovits About American Meritocracy. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/saldana-markovits
(). Six Ways Trump “Public Benefits” Policies Could Harm Children. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/newsletter-benefits-082219
Gregory A. Smith, Carol C. Burris (). Education Interview of the Month: Greg Smith Interviews Carol Burris About Charter School Funding. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/smith-burris
(). Advice on Keeping Immigrant Students Safe at School. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/newsletter-immigration-040219
(). Class Sizes Will Be “The Biggest Ever” Boasts President Trump. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/newsletter-april-class-size-04012019
(). Betsy DeVos’s Proposed Title IX Regulations: A Q&A with NEPC Fellow Elizabeth Meyer. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/newsletter-title-ix-022819
Gregory A. Smith, Patricia Gándara (). Education Interview of the Month: Greg Smith Interviews Patricia Gándara on Immigration. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/smith-gandara
Dustin Pappas, Meredith Mountford (). Reviews Worth Sharing: Focusing on School Safety After Parkland (The Heritage Foundation, March 2018). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/thinktank/RWS-discipline
(). Joint Statement Concerning the Trump Administration Policy on Family Immigration from the School of Education at the University of Colorado Boulder, BUENO Center for Multicultural Education, and the National Education Policy Center. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/newsletter-immigration-06282018
Kevin G. Welner (). How Voucher Advocates Created a Blue-State Loophole to Trump’s Tax Law. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/SALT
Education Deans for Justice and Equity (). Our Children Deserve Better: A Call to Resist Washington’s Dangerous Vision for U.S. Education. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/children-deserve-better
Lawrence Blum (). What We Can Learn from the Massachusetts Ballot Question Campaign on Charter School Expansion. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/ma-charter
(). Denver “Portfolio” Report’s Flaws Remain, Reviewer Confirms. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/denver-portfolio-report-s-flaws-remain-reviewer-confirms
Terrenda White (). NEPC Review: A 21st Century School System in the Mile-High City (Progressive Policy Institute, May 2016). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/thinktank/review-21st-century
(). ALEC ‘Report Card’ Recycles Bogus School Quality and Improvement Claims. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/alec-report
Peter W. Cookson, Jr. (). Review of The State Education Agency: At the Helm, Not the Oar. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/thinktank/review-state-education-agency
Sean P. Corcoran (). Review of The Economic Benefits of New York City's Public School Reforms, 2002-2013. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/thinktank/review-economic-benefits-nyc
Kevin G. Welner (). Much Ado about Politics (and Much Ignored about Research Evidence). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/much-ado
Kevin G. Welner, Carol C. Burris (). Is American Education on a Bad Track? . Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/american-education-bad-track
William J. Mathis (). Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking - 2013 Collection. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/options
Christopher Lubienski, T. Jameson Brewer (). Review of Report Card on American Education. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/thinktank/review-report-card-ALEC-2013
Katrina Bulkley (). Review of Mayoral Governance and Student Achievement. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/thinktank/review-mayoral-governance
Charisse Gulosino, Jonah Liebert (). NEPC Review: The Way of the Future: Education Savings Accounts for Every American Family (September 2012). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/thinktank/review-ESA
Kevin G. Welner (). The Lesson of the Cupcakes: Fix Schools by Resisting Gimmicks and Heeding Evidence. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/resisting-gimmicks
Alex Molnar (). Privatization, Politics, and Policymaking in Public Education. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/privatization-politics-and-policymaking-public-education
Wendy C. Chi (). Blueprint Reviews Now Available Online. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/blueprint-reviews-now-available-online
Wendy C. Chi (). The Impact of Advocacy Funding on the School Choice Debate. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/the-impact-advocacy-funding-school-choice-debate
Wendy C. Chi, Kevin G. Welner (). Charter Ranking Roulette: An Analysis of Reports That Grade States’ Charter School Laws. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/charter-ranking-roulette
Kevin G. Welner (). Demanding More of Presidential Candidates. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/demanding-more-presidential-candidates
Kevin G. Welner (). Money Mutterers. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/money-mutterers
Michele S. Moses (). Why the Affirmative Action Debate Persists: The Role of Moral Disagreement. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/why-affirmative-action-debate-persists-the-role-moral-disagreement
(). Bush Education Law Shows Mixed Results in First Test. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/bush-education-law-shows-mixed-results-first-test
Michele S. Moses (). Social Welfare, the Neo-Conservative Turn, and Educational Opportunity. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/social-welfare-neo-conservative-turn-and-educational-opportunity
Kathy Escamilla, S. Shannon, S. Carlos, J. García (). Breaking the Code: Colorado's Defeat of the Anti-Bilingual Education Initiative (Amendment 31). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/breaking-code-colorados-defeat-anti-bilingual-education-initiative-amendment-31
Harold Berlak (). Yes, President Bush, Johnny's Test Scores May Be Up, But Can He Read?. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/yes-president-bush-johnnys-test-scores-may-be-up-but-can-he-read
Gregory A. Smith (). Defusing Environmental Education: An Evaluation of the Critique of the Environmental Education Movement. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/defusing-environmental-education-an-evaluation-critique-environmental-education-movement
Luis A. Huerta (). Proposition 38 Makes Promises It Cannot Keep. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/proposition-38-makes-promises-it-cannot-keep
Alex Molnar (). Unfinished Business in Milwaukee. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/unfinished-business-milwaukee
Ruben Donato (). The Irony of Year-Round Schools: Mexican Migrant Resistance in a California Community During the Civil Rights Era. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/the-irony-year-round-schools-mexican-migrant-resistance-a-california-community-during-ci
Kenneth R. Howe (). Liberal Democracy, Equal Educational Opportunity and the Challenge of Multiculturalism. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/liberal-democracy-equal-educational-opportunity-and-challenge-multiculturalism