NEPC Resources on Education Policy and Policymaking

David S. Knight, David DeMatthews (). The Fiscal Impacts of Expanded Voucher Programs and Charter-School Growth on Public Schools: Recommendations for Sustaining Adequate and Equitable School Finance Systems. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/finance-equity

Christopher Saldaña, Michael A. Gottfried (). NEPC Talks Education: An Interview With Michael Gottfried About Chronic Absenteeism. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/podcast-saldana-gottfried

(). The Presidential Election and K-12 Education. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/newsletter-election-110524

(). Worthy Webinars This Week: Kumashiro Workshops. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/newsletter-webinars-092324

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

Eunice S. Han (). NEPC Review: The Broken Pipeline: Advanced Education Policies at the Local Level (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, April 2024). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./review/broken-pipeline

Clara Fontdevila, Antoni Verger, Adrián Zancajo (). NEPC Review: Spark & Sustain: How All the World’s School Systems Can Improve Learning at Scale (McKinsey & Company, February 2024). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./review/learning

Christopher Saldaña, Francesca López (). NEPC Talks Education: An Interview With Francesca López About Asset-Based Educational Policies, Practices, and Programs. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/podcast-saldana-lopez

Christopher Saldaña, Paula Arce-Trigatti, Caitlin Farrell (). NEPC Talks Education: An Interview With Paula Arce-Trigatti and Caitlin Farrell About Research-Practice Partnerships. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/podcast/saldana-arce-trigatti-farrell

(). Are Science of Reading Laws Based on Science?. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/newsletter-sor-041124

Genevieve Siegel-Hawley (). The Potential for Land Use and Housing Reform to Address School Segregation and Educational Opportunity. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/school-segregation

Vivian E. Hamilton (). The Conflict Over Parents’ Rights. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/parents-rights

Christopher Saldaña (). NEPC Talks Education: An Interview With Matthew Kelly About the History of School Finance. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/podcast-saldana-kelly

Christopher Saldaña, Sarah Lenhoff, Jeremy Singer, Katherine Michelmore (). 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

Ann M. Ishimaru (). Cultivating the Soils of Change: Policy Contexts for Just Schools. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/fyi-video-ishimaru

Mark Weber (). Evaluating Research That Alleges Funding Disparities Between Charter and District Schools. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/funding-disparities

(). Did School Lunch Reforms Help Curb Increases in Childhood Obesity Rates?. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/newsletter-school-lunch-083123

Maria M. Lewis, Raquel Muñiz (). Section 504 Plans: Examining Inequitable Access and Misuse. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/504-plan

(). How Much Do You Know About School Vouchers? . Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/newsletter-voucher-quiz-052523

Christopher Saldaña, Thomas Dee, Sally Nuamah (). NEPC Talks Education: An Interview With Thomas Dee and Sally Nuamah About Declining Enrollment . Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/podcast-saldana-dee-nuamah

(). Can Cross-Sector Collaboration Make Education More Equitable?. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/newsletter-bishop-040423

Clive Belfield (). NEPC Review: The Economic Cost of the Pandemic: State by State (Hoover Institution, January 2023). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./thinktank/pandemic

Christopher Saldaña, Carrie Sampson (). NEPC Talks Education: An Interview With Carrie Sampson About the Role of School Boards. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/podcast-saldana-sampson

Christopher Saldaña, Derek W. Black (). NEPC Talks Education: An Interview With Derek Black About the Role of Law in Education Policy. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/podcast-saldana-black

Helen F. Ladd (). How Charter Schools Undermine Good Education Policymaking. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/charter-policy

(). Five Real-World Lessons From Common Core State Standards Implementation. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/newsletter-ccss-04262022

Christopher Saldaña, Raymond C. Pierce, Meagan Crowe (). NEPC Talks Education: An Interview With Raymond C. Pierce and Meagan Crowe About Social and Educational Policy. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/podcast-saldana-pierce-crowe

(). NEPC’s Most Popular Publications of the Year. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/newsletter-year-in-review-01042022

Christopher Saldaña, Gloria Ladson-Billings (). NEPC Talks Education: An Interview with Gloria Ladson-Billings About Education Policy Responses to Pandemic and Civil Unrest. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/podcast-saldana-ladson-billings

(). One Year into Police-Free Schools: Three Trends to Know . Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/newsletter-police-free-062921

Bruce D. Baker (). NEPC Review: The Effect of Constitutional Provisions on Education Policy and Outcomes (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, April 2021). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./thinktank/constitutional-provisions

Amy Cummings (). Making Early Literacy Policy Work: Three Considerations for Policymakers Based on Kentucky’s “Read to Succeed” Act. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/literacy

Christopher Saldaña, Ann M. Ishimaru (). NEPC Talks Education: An Interview with Ann Ishimaru and Parents From the Supporting Partnerships in Education and Beyond Organization. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/podcast-saldana-ishimaru

Dana L. Mitra (). NEPC Review: Youth Engagement in Collective Impact Initiatives: Lessons from Promise Neighborhoods (Urban Institute, December 2020). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./thinktank/youth-engagement

(). How to Spot a Policy Distraction. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publications/newsletter-distractions-031121

(). The Price of Opportunity. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/price-opportunity

(). Education Policy Satire is What We Need to End This Bear of a Year . Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/newsletter-grizzlies-121520

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

(). Seven Ways Research Can Guide Schools’ Recovery from the Coronavirus. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/newsletter-recovery-plan-090320

(). A Few Weeks of Webinars. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/newsletter-webinars-060220

Christopher Saldaña, Jennifer Jellison Holme, Kara Finnigan (). Education Interview of the Month: Christopher Saldaña Interviews Jennifer Jellison Holme and Kara Finnigan About Educational and Urban Politics and Policymaking. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/saldana-holme-finnigan

Christopher Saldaña, Katherine Schultz (). Education Interview of the Month: Christopher Saldaña Interviews Katherine Schultz About Distrust in Educational Change. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/saldana-schultz

Christopher Saldaña, Dirk F. Zuschlag, Kristine L. Bowman (). Education Interview of the Month: Christopher Saldaña Interviews Dirk Zuschlag and Kristine Bowman About State Intervention in School District Finances. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/saldana-zuschlag-bowman

Dirk F. Zuschlag, Kristine L. Bowman (). States’ Intervention in School Districts’ Finances. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/state-intervention

Tammy Kolbe (). Funding Special Education: Charting a Path that Confronts Complexity and Crafts Coherence. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/special-ed

Donald J. Peurach, Maxwell Yurkofsky (). Organizing and Managing Instruction in US Public School Districts: Considerations for Families, Communities, and States. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/instruction

(). How to Sustain Community Schools − The Partnership for the Future of Learning Publishes New How-To Guide. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/newsletter-community-schools-083018

Kristopher Nordstrom (). Reviews Worth Sharing: An Impact Analysis of North Carolina's Opportunity Scholarship Program on Student Achievement (June 2018). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./thinktank/RWS-vouchers

(). Review Worth Sharing Identifies Flaws in NC Voucher Evaluation. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/newsletter-NC-vouchers-071218

Gregory A. Smith, Linda Molner Kelley, Adam York (). Education Interview of the Month: Greg Smith Interviews Linda Molner Kelley and Adam York on Schools of Opportunity. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/smith-kelley-york

Mark Weber, Bruce D. Baker (). NEPC Review: School District Reform in Newark (National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2017). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./thinktank/review-newark-reform

Gregory A. Smith, Faith Boninger (). Education Interview of the Month: Greg Smith Interviews Faith Boninger on Student Privacy. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/smith-boninger

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

Faith Boninger, Alex Molnar, Kevin Murray (). Asleep at the Switch: Schoolhouse Commercialism, Student Privacy, and the Failure of Policymaking. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/schoolhouse-commercialism-2017

Alex Molnar, Gary Miron, Charisse Gulosino, Christopher Shank, Caryn Davidson, Michael K. Barbour, Luis A. Huerta, Sheryl Rankin Shafer, Jennifer King Rice, David Nitkin (). Virtual Schools in the U.S. 2017. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/virtual-schools-annual-2017

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

William R. Penuel, Elizabeth J. Meyer, Michelle Renée Valladares (). Making the Most of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) – Helping States Focus on School Equity, Quality and Climate. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/webinar-making-most-every-student-succeeds-act-essa-helping-states-focus-school-equity

William R. Penuel, Elizabeth J. Meyer, Michelle Renée Valladares (). Making the Most of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) – Helping States Focus on School Equity, Quality and Climate. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/ESSA

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

Shaun Harper, Lori D. Patton, Ontario S. Wooden (). Access and Equity for African American Students in Higher Education: A Critical Race Historical Analysis of Policy Efforts. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/access-and-equity-for-african-american-students-higher-education-a-critical-race

Gary Miron, Charisse Gulosino (). Virtual Schools Report 2016: Directory and Performance Review. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/virtual-schools-annual-2016

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

Martin Carnoy (). International Test Score Comparisons and Educational Policy: A Review of the Critiques. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/international-test-scores

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

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

Kevin G. Welner (). Silver Linings Casebook: How Vergara’s Backers May Lose by Winning. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/silver-linings-casebook

Robin Rogers, Sara Goldrick-Rab (). NEPC Review: Measuring and Understanding Education Advocacy (Brookings Institution, March 2015). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./thinktank/review-measuring-education-advocacy

(). NEPC Embraces New Reformy Mission. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/nepc-embraces

Alex Molnar, Luis A. Huerta, Michael K. Barbour, Gary Miron, Sheryl Rankin Shafer, Charisse Gulosino (). Virtual Schools in the U.S. 2015: Politics, Performance, Policy, and Research Evidence. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/virtual-schools-annual-2015

Randall Reback (). NEPC Review: New York City's Children First: Lessons in School Reform (Center for American Progress, March 2014). Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./thinktank/review-NYC-children-first

Kevin G. Welner (). The Lost Opportunity of the Common Core State Standards. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/lost-opportunity-common-core-state-standards

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

Alex Molnar, Luis A. Huerta, Jennifer King Rice, Sheryl Rankin Shafer, Michael K. Barbour, Gary Miron, Charisse Gulosino, Brian Horvitz (). Virtual Schools in the U.S. 2014: Politics, Performance, Policy, and Research Evidence. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/virtual-schools-annual-2014

Bruce Fuller (). Review of The Lessons of No Child Left Behind. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./thinktank/review-lessons-of-nclb

Christopher Lubienski, T. Jameson Brewer (). Review of Report Card on American Education. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./thinktank/review-report-card-ALEC-2013

Alex Molnar, Gary Miron, Luis A. Huerta, Jennifer King Rice, Larry Cuban, Brian Horvitz, Charisse Gulosino, Sheryl Rankin Shafer (). Virtual Schools in the U.S. 2013: Politics, Performance, Policy, and Research Evidence. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/virtual-schools-annual-2013

Wendy C. Chi (). Blueprint Reviews Now Available Online. Available at: https://nepc.colorado.edu./publication/blueprint-reviews-now-available-online

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

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