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Big Claims, Little Evidence, Lots of Money: The Reality Behind the Summit Learning Program and the Push to Adopt Digital Personalized Learning Platforms

Research Brief

Faith Boninger, Alex Molnar, and Christopher Saldaña

June 25, 2020

Virtual learning and personalized learning have been at the forefront of education refo...

NEPC Review: Are Charter Schools Safer than District-Run Schools? Evidence from Pennsylvania (Reason Foundation, April 2020) and Effects of Charter School Competition on District School Budgeting Decisions: Experimental Evidence from Texas (Annenberg Inst

NEPC Review

Bruce Fuller

June 9, 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

NEPC Review: School Sector and Satisfaction: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Sample (Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, October 2019)

NEPC Review

Steven V. Miller

January 21, 2020

NEPC Review: Rising Tide: Charter School Market Share and Student Achievement (Fordham Institute, September 2019)

NEPC Review

Yongmei Ni

November 14, 2019

NEPC Review: The Case for Educational Pluralism in the U.S. (Manhattan Institute, July 2019)

NEPC Review

Joel Westheimer

October 22, 2019

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

NEPC Review

Robert Bifulco

June 18, 2019

NEPC Review: California Charter Schools: Costs, Benefits, and Impact on School Districts (Center on Reinventing Public Education, May 2019)

NEPC Review

Bruce D. Baker

May 31, 2019

Education Interview of the Month: Greg Smith Interviews Carol Burris About Charter School Funding

FYI

Gregory A. Smith and Carol C. Burris

April 23, 2019

Lewis and Clark College Emeritus Professor of Education Gregory A. Smith interviews Car...

Education Interview of the Month: Greg Smith Interviews Mark Warren, Zakiya Sankara-Jabar, and Jonathan Stith About the Educational Justice Movement

FYI

Gregory A. Smith, Mark R. Warren, Zakiya Sankara-Jabar, and Jonathan Stith

March 26, 2019

Lewis and Clark College Emeritus Professor of Education Gregory A. Smith interviews Mar...

NEPC Review: Fairness in Facilities: Why Idaho Public Charter Schools Need More Facilities Funding (Bellwether Education Partners, January 2019)

NEPC Review

Mark Weber

March 12, 2019

Education Interview of the Month: Greg Smith Interviews Suzanne Eckes and Julie Mead About Privatization and Discrimination

FYI

Gregory A. Smith, Suzanne E. Eckes, and Julie F. Mead

January 22, 2019

Lewis and Clark College Emeritus Professor of Education Gregory A. Smith interviews Suz...

How School Privatization Opens the Door for Discrimination

Policy Brief

Julie F. Mead and Suzanne E. Eckes

December 6, 2018

Recent reports on discrimination in private schools have led some observers to decry th...

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

Douglas N. Harris and Matthew Larsen respond to critiques of their recent study of the ...

This Charter School Wraps its Arms Around its Students

Newsletter

October 23, 2018

Broome Street Academy Charter High School, featured recently in The Washington Post, wa...

Education Interview of the Month: Greg Smith Interviews Gordon Lafer on Charter Expansion

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Gregory A. Smith and Gordon Lafer

October 18, 2018

Lewis and Clark College Emeritus Professor of Education Gregory A.

What Should We Really Learn From New Orleans After the Storm? A Q&A With NEPC Fellow Bruce Baker

Newsletter

October 9, 2018

NEPC Fellow Bruce Baker discusses his critique of a recent policy brief that attributed...

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: Time to Change Course: Reclaiming the Potential of Texas Charter Schools (ExcelinEd and Texas Public Policy Foundation, June 2018)

NEPC Review

Edward J. Fuller

September 12, 2018

What Does Research Have to Say About LeBron’s New School?

Newsletter

August 21, 2018

What does NEPC-related research have to say about the approaches taken by the new schoo...

An Open Secret: The Problems with Virtual Schools

Newsletter

July 31, 2018

News media accounts and NEPC research have exposed numerous problems with virtual schoo...

NEPC Review: Is Public Schooling a Public Good? An Analysis of Schooling Externalities (Cato Institute, May 2018)

NEPC Review

Doris A. Santoro

June 26, 2018

Apples to Aardvarks: WILL Replicates Erroneous Private School Findings

Newsletter

May 31, 2018

A new report from the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty contains many of the same...

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

NEPC Review: Charter Schools and the Achievement Gap

NEPC Review

A. Chris Torres and Joanne W. Golann

April 11, 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

NEPC Review: School District Reform in Newark (National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2017) and Assessing the Impact of the Newark Education Reforms (Center for Education Policy Research, Harvard University, September 2017)

NEPC Review

Mark Weber and Bruce D. Baker

December 14, 2017

NEPC Review: Why Indiana Parents Choose: A Cross-Sector Survey of Parents' Views in a Robust School Choice Environment (EdChoice, September 7 2017)

NEPC Review

Jeanne M. Powers

November 21, 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 (CREDO, August 2017)

NEPC Review

Matthew Gaertner and Ben Kirshner

October 24, 2017

NEPC Review: Charter School Funding: Inequity in New York City (University of Arkansas, August 2017)

NEPC Review

Clive Belfield

October 11, 2017

NEPC Review: Charter Management Organizations 2017

NEPC Review

Gary Miron and Christopher Shank

September 7, 2017

NEPC Review: Leveraging ESSA to Support Quality-School Growth

NEPC Review

Gail L. Sunderman

June 13, 2017

NEPC Review: New York Charter Schools Outperform Traditional Selective Public Schools: More Evidence that Cream-Skimming is Not Driving Charters’ Success

NEPC Review

Sarah Cordes

May 9, 2017

NEPC Review: Apples to Apples: The Definitive Look at School Test Scores in Milwaukee and Wisconsin

NEPC Review

Benjamin Shear

April 25, 2017

NEPC Review: Differences by Design? Student Composition in Charter Schools with Different Academic Models

NEPC Review

T. Jameson Brewer and Christopher Lubienski

April 13, 2017

What We Can Learn from the Massachusetts Ballot Question Campaign on Charter School Expansion

Policy Memo

Lawrence Blum

March 14, 2017

In the November 2016 election, voters in Massachusetts decisively defeated a referendum...

Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking - 2016 Collection

Policy Brief

William J. Mathis

August 23, 2016

Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking is a multi-part brief that takes up important policy issues and identifies policies supported by research.