Blog Post of the Day

NEPC's Blog Post of the Day features a selection of interesting and insightful blog posts that apply a researcher perspective to important education policy issues. The views expressed by the bloggers are entirely their own. If you have read or written a research-related blog that you would like to have considered for reposting as a Blog Post of the Day, please email us at nepcblog@gmail.com

The Answer Sheet: A Master Teacher Went to Court to Challenge Her Low Evaluation. What Her Win Means for Her Profession

Valerie Strauss and Carol C. Burris

May 11, 2016

Jersey Jazzman: School Vouchers are Not a Cure for Segregation: Part I

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Jersey Jazzman

May 10, 2016

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Business-inspired School Reform: Has the Wave Crested?

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Larry Cuban

May 9, 2016

VAMboozled!: Virginia SGP’s Side of the Story

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

May 6, 2016

Janresseger: Reardon Releases New Research on Achievement Gaps: It Isn’t All About “Failing” Schools

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Jan Resseger

May 5, 2016

Shanker Blog: Charter Schools and Longer Term Student Outcomes

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Matthew Di Carlo

May 4, 2016

Campaign for America’s Future: How School Vouchers Promote Religious Schools and Hurt Education

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Jeff Bryant

May 3, 2016

Education Law Prof Blog: The Toxic Mix of Segregation and Achievement Gaps--A Problem That Money Alone Won't Fix

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Derek W. Black

May 2, 2016

EduShyster: Holding Back to Get Ahead

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Have You Heard

April 29, 2016

Janresseger: As the One Percent Insulates Itself and Buys Political Power, Public Education Suffers

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Jan Resseger

April 28, 2016

Shanker Blog: Changing the Narrative: Leveraging Education Policy to Address Segregation

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Jennifer Jellison Holme and Kara Finnigan

April 27, 2016

The Becoming Radical: Even Technocrats with Good Intentions Sustain Classroom Colonialism

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P.L. Thomas

April 26, 2016

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Rubik’s Cube and School Reform (Part 1)

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Larry Cuban

April 25, 2016

Diane Ravitch’s Blog: William Mathis: The Cargo Cult and Corporate Reform Theory

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Diane Ravitch

April 21, 2016

VAMboozled!: Teachers’ “Similar” Value-Added Estimates Yield “Different” Meanings Across “Different” Contexts

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

April 20, 2016

Campaign for America’s Future: Here Comes the Charter School Sneak Attack on Bipartisan Policy

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Jeff Bryant

April 19, 2016

Education Law Prof Blog: California Court of Appeal Deals Legal Assault on Teacher Tenure a Major Blow, Laying Bare Its Shallow Assumptions

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Derek W. Black

April 18, 2016

Shanker Blog: Getting Serious About Measuring Collaborative Teacher Practice

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Nathan D. Jones

April 15, 2016

Janresseger: Even Community Schools are Not Enough; We Must Confront Child Poverty

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Jan Resseger

April 14, 2016

Curmudgucation: The Benefits of Career and Tech Education

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Peter Greene

April 13, 2016

VAMboozled!: Kane is at It, Again: “Statistically Significant” Claims Exaggerated to Influence Policy

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

April 12, 2016

At the Chalkface: A Challenge to Education Researchers

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Shaun Johnson

April 11, 2016

National Institute for Early Education Research: How Much Can High-Quality Universal Pre-K Reduce Achievement Gaps?

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Allison Friedman-Krauss

April 8, 2016

Education Law Prof Blog: New Study Suggests Voucher Programs May Fuel Segregation

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Derek W. Black

April 7, 2016

Shanker Blog: The Hidden Power of Our Social Worlds

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Esther Quintero

April 6, 2016

Janresseger: National Education Policy Center Releases Profound Analysis of Portfolio School Reform

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Jan Resseger

April 5, 2016

Campaign for America’s Future: Is Education Being Measured to Death?

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Jeff Bryant

April 4, 2016

School Finance 101: Searching for Costello in New Jersey: Time for a New School Funding Challenge in the Post-Abbott Era?

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Bruce D. Baker

April 1, 2016

VAMboozled!: The ACT Testing Corporation (Unsurprisingly) Against America’s Opt-Out Movement

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

March 31, 2016

Janresseger: Schott Foundation-NEPC Infographic Depicts What’s Necessary for Justice in Our Schools

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Jan Resseger

March 30, 2016

Shanker Blog: Collaboration is the Way We Work, Not an “Activity”

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Joseph Vincente

March 29, 2016

Campaign for America’s Future: How the Walmart Business Model is Reshaping American Public Education

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Jeff Bryant

March 28, 2016

VAMboozled: Contradictory Data Complicate Definitions of, and Attempts to Capture, “Teacher Effects”

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

March 25, 2016

The Becoming Radical: Today in “Don’t Believe It”

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P.L. Thomas

March 24, 2016

The Answer Sheet: No, Great Schools Can’t Close Achievement Gaps All By Themselves

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Valerie Strauss and Kevin G. Welner

March 23, 2016

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day...: New Study Reviews 25 Years of Research into What Helps Students Graduate – Here’s What They Found

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Larry Ferlazzo

March 22, 2016

Mike Klonsky’s SmallTalk Blog: New Study Finds Many Charters Feeding School-To-Prison Pipeline

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Mike Klonsky

March 21, 2016

EduShyster: Disparate Measures

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Have You Heard

March 18, 2016

The Answer Sheet: Education Researchers Blast Common Core Standards, Urge Ban on High-Stakes Tests

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Valerie Strauss

March 17, 2016

Shanker Blog: Teachers and Professional Collaboration: How Sweden Has Become the ABBA of Educational Change

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Andy Hargreaves

March 16, 2016

Campaign for America’s Future: The Urgent Education Issue That Needs To Be in the Presidential Debates

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Jeff Bryant

March 15, 2016

VAMboozled!: Kane’s (Ironic) Calls for an Education Equivalent to the Federal Drug Administration (FDA)

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

March 14, 2016

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Choosing Exemplars of Technology Integration: Teachers

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Larry Cuban

March 11, 2016

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day...: “Deeper Learning” in the News Today

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Larry Ferlazzo

March 10, 2016

Teaching/Math/Culture: Professional Development is Broken, But Be Careful How We Fix It

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Ilana Horn

March 8, 2016

Jersey Jazzman: The Myth of the Heroic Charter School - Part I

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Jersey Jazzman

March 7, 2016

Janresseger: Exposing the Effects of Child Poverty Hidden in Plain Sight

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Jan Resseger

March 4, 2016

Shanker Blog: Student Sorting and Teacher Classroom Observations

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Matthew Di Carlo

March 3, 2016

The Becoming Radical: Questioning the Questions Asked about Education

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P.L. Thomas

March 2, 2016

VAMboozled!: Everything is Bigger (and Badder) in Texas: Houston’s Teacher Value-Added System

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

March 1, 2016

Campaign for America’s Future: The Education ‘Reform’ Bargain is Off. Here’s What We Need Instead.

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Jeff Bryant

February 29, 2016

Janresseger: New Study: In Education Money Matters, Helps Poor Districts, Raises Achievement

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Jan Resseger

February 26, 2016

Shanker Blog: Beyond Teacher Quality

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Esther Quintero

February 25, 2016

The Answer Sheet: A ‘Broader Bolder’ Approach to Even the Education Playing Field

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Elaine Weiss and Valerie Strauss

February 24, 2016

School Finance 101: Strolling Through the PARCC (Data)

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Bruce D. Baker

February 23, 2016

VAMboozled!: Chetty et al. v. Rothstein on VAM-Based Bias, Again

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

February 22, 2016

Shanker Blog: Student Attrition And "Backfilling" at Success Academy Charter Schools: What Student Enrollment Patterns Tell Us

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Leo Casey

February 19, 2016

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day...: Another Study Shows Limitations of Standardized Tests for Teacher Evaluations

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Larry Ferlazzo

February 18, 2016

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Reflecting on School Reforms: Scaling Up versus Short, Happy Life or Hanging In

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Larry Cuban

February 17, 2016

Progressive Educator: Guest Post: Shaving Cream Lattes and Educational “Innovation” (by Derrick Mears)

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Derrick Mears and Christian Z. Goering

February 16, 2016

VAMboozled!: In Schools, Teacher Quality Matters Most

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

February 15, 2016

Campaign for America’s Future: Why State Leaders Need to Back Away from School Takeover Agencies

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Jeff Bryant

February 12, 2016

Education Law Prof Blog: Integration As Mainstream Policy and Conversation Getting Closer and Closer

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February 11, 2016

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Looking Anew at How Teachers Teach

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Larry Cuban

February 10, 2016

Education in Two Worlds: Would Horace Mann Tweet?

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Gene V Glass

February 8, 2016

Shanker Blog: The IMPACT of Teacher Turnover in DCPS

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February 5, 2016

Progressive Educator: Which States Value Public Education? A New Report from NPE Says “Pretty Much None of Them”

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February 4, 2016

Education Law Prof Blog: Study: Explaining the Underrepresentation of High-Achieving Students of Color in Gifted Programs

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LaJuana Davis

February 3, 2016

VAMboozled!: Report on the Stability of Student Growth Percentile (SGP) “Value-Added” Estimates

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

February 2, 2016

Campaign for America’s Future: A New Lawsuit Challenges the Legality of ‘No Excuse’ Charter Schools

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Jeff Bryant

February 1, 2016

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: How Measurement Fails Doctors and Teachers (Robert Wachter) (by Robert Wachter)

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Robert Wachter

January 29, 2016

Shanker Blog: The Narrative of School Failure and Why We Must Pay Attention to Segregation in Educational Policy

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Kara Finnigan and Jennifer Jellison Holme

January 28, 2016

VAMboozled!: Special Issue of “Educational Researcher” (Paper #7 of 9): VAMs Situated in Appropriate Ecologies

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

January 27, 2016

Education Law Prof Blog: Chicago Schools with the Most Disadvantaged Students Have the Most "Ineffective" Teachers, According to New Study

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Derek W. Black

January 26, 2016

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day...: New Study Suggests That Teacher Observations Should Focus More on Teacher Inputs, Less on Student Outcomes

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Larry Ferlazzo

January 25, 2016

Campaign for America’s Future: Here’s How a Ruling in Favor of Friedrichs Will Hurt Education

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Jeff Bryant

January 22, 2016

The Becoming Radical: Addressing Teacher Quality Post-NCLB

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P.L. Thomas

January 21, 2016

Shanker Blog: New Report: Does Money Matter in Education? Second Edition

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Matthew Di Carlo

January 20, 2016

VAMboozled!: Houston Lawsuit Update, with Summary of Expert Witnesses’ Findings about the EVAAS

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

January 19, 2016

Teaching/Math/Culture: Building Teaching as a Responsive Profession

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Ilana Horn

January 15, 2016

The Answer Sheet: A Worthwhile Opportunity for Public High Schools - Deadline Approaching

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Valerie Strauss, Kevin G. Welner, and Carol C. Burris

January 14, 2016

Living in Dialogue: Why High School Exit Exams, Not Students, are Worthless: Part One

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Denise Hertzog Pursche

January 13, 2016

Campaign for America’s Future: We’re Onto the Phony Education Reformers

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Jeff Bryant

January 12, 2016

The Becoming Radical: What Football Reveals for Education about False Allure of Quantification

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P.L. Thomas

January 11, 2016

VAMboozled!: Special Issue of “Educational Researcher” (Paper #6 of 9): VAMs as Tools for “Egg-Crate” Schools

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

January 8, 2016

Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Flawed Assumptions about School Reform Strengthening the U.S. Economy

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Larry Cuban

January 7, 2016

Education Law Prof Blog: Charter School Study Offers New Findings on Student Achievement, Student Enrollment, and Teachers

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Derek W. Black

January 6, 2016

EduShyster: Are Charter Schools the New Subprime Mortgages?

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Have You Heard

January 5, 2016

Rutland Herald: New Education Law: A Lot of Suds

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William J. Mathis

January 4, 2016

School Finance 101: School Finance Reality vs. the Money Doesn’t Matter Echo Chamber

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Bruce D. Baker

December 31, 2015

Campaign for America’s Future: The Important Education Issue Leaders Are Still Ignoring

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Jeff Bryant

December 30, 2015

VAMboozled!: Why Standardized Tests Should Not Be Used to Evaluate Teachers (and Teacher Education Programs)

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

December 29, 2015

Huffington Post: Students Call Me the "Technosaurus"

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Alan Singer

December 28, 2015

Shanker Blog: Student Activism is a Healthy Form of Identity Resistance

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Simone Ispa-Landa

December 24, 2015

School Finance 101: Pondering Chartering: On Market Forces & Innovation?

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Bruce D. Baker

December 23, 2015

Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day...: No Surprise to Teachers: Study Finds that Helping One or Two Students Can Make Entire Class Better

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Larry Ferlazzo

December 22, 2015

Huffington Post: California Jolt: State Upends How It Funds and Runs Education

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Joan McRobbie

December 21, 2015

Campaign for America’s Future: Shining a Light into the Charter School Black Box

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Jeff Bryant

December 17, 2015

VAMboozled!: Special Issue of “Educational Researcher” (Paper #4 of 9): Make Room VAMs for Observations

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Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

December 16, 2015

EduShyster: Bad Apples

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Have You Heard

December 15, 2015