NEPC Resources on Poverty

(October 17, 2024). National School Lunch Program and the 2024 Elections. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/newsletter-schanzenbach-101724

Christopher Saldaña, Sarah Lenhoff, Jeremy Singer, Katherine Michelmore (October 17, 2023). NEPC Talks Education: An Interview With Sarah Lenhoff, Jeremy Singer, and Katherine Michelmore About Education Policy. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/podcast-saldana-lenhoff-singer-michelmore

Christopher Lubienski, T. Jameson Brewer (March 2, 2023). NEPC Review: K-12 Without Borders: Public School Students, Families, and Teachers Shut In by Education Boundaries (Manhattan Institute, November 2022). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./thinktank/boundaries

(February 23, 2023). The Concerning Connection Between School Spending, Poverty, and Race. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/newsletter-poverty-022323

(November 29, 2022). Another Troubling Link Between K-12 Spending and Student Demographics. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/newsletter-funding-poverty-112922

Erica Frankenberg (March 1, 2022). NEPC Review: Priced Out of Public Schools: District Lines, Housing Access, and Inequitable Educational Options (Bellwether Education Partners, October 2021). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./thinktank/housing

Kate Baca, Michelle Renée Valladares (January 6, 2022). Centering Students’ Past and Present to Advance Equity in the Future. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/cuba

(October 7, 2021). Why Educational Funding Is More Than School Funding. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/newsletter-educational-funding-100721

(October 5, 2021). The “Great Equalizer” Myth. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/newsletter-great-equalizer-100521

(February 23, 2021). “Deep Poverty”: What It Is and Why It Matters to Schools. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/newsletter-deep-poverty-022321

(November 5, 2020). More Than One in Five Americans is Food Insecure. It’s Even Worse for Kids. . Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/newsletter-food-insecurity-110520

Kristen L. Buras (July 28, 2020). From Katrina to COVID-19: How Disaster, Federal Neglect, and the Market Compound Racial Inequities. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/katrina-covid

Michael Harwell (March 3, 2020). NEPC Review: Measuring Student Poverty: Developing Accurate Counts for School Funding, Accountability, and Research (Urban Institute, December 2019). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./thinktank/student-poverty

Martin Carnoy, Roxana Marachi (February 4, 2020). Investing for "Impact" or Investing for Profit? Social Impact Bonds, Pay for Success, and the Next Wave of Privatization of Social Services and Education. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/social-impact-bonds

(January 23, 2020). Will 2020 Be the Year of Acknowledging Opportunity Gaps?. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/newsletter-opportunity-gap-012320

Jaekyung Lee (November 26, 2019). NEPC Review: Fewer Children Left Behind: Lessons From the Dramatic Achievement Gains of the 1990s and 2000s (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, October 2019). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./thinktank/achievement

(October 8, 2019). Five Charts That Show Why We Really Need to Track Educational Equity. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/newsletter-equity-100819

(August 22, 2019). Six Ways Trump “Public Benefits” Policies Could Harm Children. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/newsletter-benefits-082219

(May 23, 2019). Review Identifies Flaws in High-Profile “Gold Standard” Study Used to Market TFA. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/newsletter-tfa-052319

Andrew Brantlinger , Matthew Griffin (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). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./thinktank/tfa

(May 2, 2019). A Weak Defense of a Useless Report. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/newsletter-yun-response-050219

John T. Yun (April 18, 2019). NEPC Review: The Michigan Context and Performance Report Card: High Schools 2018 (Mackinac Center, January 2019). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./thinktank/rankings

(November 20, 2018). The Education Debt. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/newsletter-education-debt-112018

Gregory A. Smith, Noliwe Rooks (November 15, 2018). Education Interview of the Month: Greg Smith Interviews Noliwe Rooks on School Segregation. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/smith-rooks

(November 8, 2018). The Connection Between Poverty, Race and College Preparation in Five Charts. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/newsletter-poverty-110818

(November 6, 2018). NEPC Fellow Douglas Harris Responds to Critiques of Study, and a Q&A on the Effect of New Orleans School Reforms. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/newsletter-NOLA-081418

(November 1, 2018). At This School, Student Discipline Is Often an Opportunity to Learn. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/newsletter-discipline-110118

(October 25, 2018). School Poverty Rates: How High Before They Harm Students?. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/newsletter-poverty-102518

Genevieve Siegel-Hawley, Erica Frankenberg (February 8, 2018). NEPC Review: Balancing Act: Schools, Neighborhoods, and Racial Imbalance (Brookings Institution, November 2017). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./thinktank/review-school-segregation

Gregory A. Smith, Kenneth M. Zeichner (November 14, 2017). Education Interview of the Month: Greg Smith Interviews Ken Zeichner on Independent Teacher Prep Programs. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/smith-zeichner

Matthew Gaertner, Ben Kirshner (October 24, 2017). NEPC Review: Lights Off: Practice and Impact of Closing Low-Performing Schools (Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO), August 2017). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./thinktank/review-closures

Jennifer Jellison Holme, Emily Germain (June 20, 2017). NEPC Review: Renewing Our Cities (EdChoice, March 2017). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./thinktank/review-choice

Maia Cucchiara (June 15, 2017). NEPC Review: Hidden Money: The Outsized Role of Parent Contributions in School Finance (Center for American Progress, April 2017). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./thinktank/review-fundraising

Janelle T. Scott, Michele S. Moses, Kara Finnigan, Tina Trujillo, Darrell Jackson (June 8, 2017). Law and Order in School and Society: How Discipline and Policing Policies Harm Students of Color, and What We Can Do About It. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/law-and-order

Kevin G. Welner (March 21, 2017). Lifting All Children Up. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/fyi-lifting-all-children

Erica Frankenberg (December 19, 2016). NEPC Review: Segregation, Race, and Charter Schools: What Do We Know? (Brookings Institution, October 2016). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./thinktank/review-segregation

William J. Mathis, Tina Trujillo (November 17, 2016). Lessons from NCLB for the Every Student Succeeds Act. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/lessons-from-NCLB

Kenneth M. Zeichner (September 8, 2016). Independent Teacher Education Programs: Apocryphal Claims, Illusory Evidence. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/teacher-education

William J. Mathis (August 23, 2016). Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking - 2016 Collection. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/research-based-options

Julia Daniel, Kevin G. Welner, Michelle Renée Valladares (June 14, 2016). Research-Based Expectations for Implementation of the Community Schools Initiative in New York City. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/community-schools

Kevin G. Welner (March 21, 2016). Lifting All Children Up. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/lifting-all-children

Jaime Del Razo (March 10, 2016). NEPC Review: SchoolGrades.org (Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, September 2015). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./thinktank/review-of-schoolgrades-org

Sharon L. Nichols (February 25, 2016). NEPC Review: Lessons From State Performance on NAEP: Why Some High-Poverty Students Score Better Than Others (Center for American Progress , January 2016). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./thinktank/review-CAP-standards

Amy Stuart Wells (December 15, 2015). Diverse Housing, Diverse Schooling: How Policy Can Stabilize Racial Demographic Change in Cities and Suburbs. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/housing-school-nexus

Sarah Lubienski (November 19, 2015). NEPC Review: The Hidden Value of Curriculum Reform: Do States and Districts Receive the Most Bang for Their Curriculum Buck? (Center for American Progress, October 2015). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./thinktank/review-curriculum

W. Steven Barnett (November 12, 2015). NEPC Review: Do We Already Have Universal Preschool? (Brookings Institution, September 2015). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./thinktank/review-universal-preschool

William J. Mathis (November 3, 2015). Divining the Meaning of the Test Scores. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/divining-meaning

(October 28, 2015). NAEPscuses: Making Sense of Excuse-Making from the No-Excuses Contingent. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/naepscuses

Kevin G. Welner (October 28, 2015). NAEPscuses: Making Sense of Excuse-Making from the No-Excuses Contingent. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/naepscuses

Jennifer King Rice (September 15, 2015). Investing in Equal Opportunity: What Would it Take to Build the Balance Wheel?. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/balance-wheel

Marvin Lazerson, Ryan Pfleger (May 18, 2015). NEPC Review: Increasing Education: What it Will and Will Not Do for Earnings and Earnings Inequality (The Hamilton Project, March 2015). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./thinktank/review-increasing-education

Alex Molnar (April 9, 2015). State Sen. Alberta Darling's Recovery District Idea is Designed to Fail. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/state-sen-alberta-darling

Kevin G. Welner, William J. Mathis (February 12, 2015). Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act: Time to Move Beyond Test-Focused Policies. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/esea

Kevin K. Kumashiro (January 12, 2015). NEPC Review: Proposed 2015 Federal Teacher Preparation Regulations (U.S. Department of Education, December 2014). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./thinktank/review-proposed-teacher-preparation

Gail L. Sunderman (November 6, 2014). Review of Federal School Finance Reform. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./thinktank/review-title-1-reason-foundation

Gene V Glass (August 19, 2014). NEPC Review: The Productivity of Public Charter Schools (University of Arkansas Department of Education Reform, July 2014). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./thinktank/review-productivity-public-charter

Amy Stuart Wells (March 20, 2014). Seeing Past the “Colorblind” Myth of Education Policy. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/seeing-past-the-colorblind-myth

Marisa Saunders, Jaime Del Razo (March 18, 2014). NEPC Review: Updating Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century (Lexington Institute, February 2014). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./thinktank/review-updating-career-technical-ed

(February 18, 2014). Does Class Size Matter?. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/does-class-size-matter

Patricia Burch, Mary Stewart, Jahni Smith (November 19, 2013). Review of School Choice and School Performance in the New York City Public Schools . Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./thinktank/review-school-choice-nyc-brookings

William J. Mathis (June 13, 2013). Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking - 2013 Collection. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/options

(April 25, 2013). Leading Educators Call for a New Direction for Education Reform, Focused on the Opportunity Gap. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/leading-educators

Mark Paige (January 15, 2013). Review of Failure Is Not an Option. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./thinktank/review-failure-not-option

(January 24, 2011). Two Thumbs Down: Education Documentaries Fictionalize Research. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/two-thumbs

Alex Molnar, Douglas N. Harris, Gene V Glass, Lisa Abrams, Madhabi Chatterji, Mary Lee Smith, Sherman Dorn, Tim Hacsi, Victoria-Maria MacDonald (January 1, 2004). Reform Florida. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/reform-florida

(April 10, 2002). Arizona Report Finds Poorest Gain Little from Tax Credits. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/arizona-report-finds-poorest-gain-little-from-tax-credits

Gerald W. Bracey (January 1, 2002). What They Did on Vacation: It's Not Schools That Are Failing Poor Kids. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/what-they-did-vacation-its-not-schools-that-are-failing-poor-kids

Gerald W. Bracey (January 1, 1999). Poverty Issues Get Short Shrift in Today's Education Debate. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/poverty-issues-get-short-shrift-todays-education-debate