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Five Myths About Teaching

Newsletter

May 4, 2021

This Teacher Evaluation Trend Was the Reform Du Jour. Now States Are Backing Away

Newsletter

July 11, 2019

Whatever Happened with the Los Angeles Times' Decision to Publish Teachers’ Value-Added Scores?

Newsletter

September 6, 2018

State-Level Assessments and Teacher Evaluation Systems after the Passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act: Some Steps in the Right Direction

Policy Brief

Kevin Close, Audrey Amrein-Beardsley, and Clarin Collins

June 5, 2018

Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking - 2016 Collection

Policy Brief

William J. Mathis

August 23, 2016

NEPC Review: Smart, Skilled, and Striving: Transforming and Elevating the Teaching Profession (Center for American Progress, November 2015)

NEPC Review

Elizabeth J. Meyer

January 7, 2016

NAEPscuses: Making Sense of Excuse-Making from the No-Excuses Contingent

Policy Memo

Kevin G. Welner

October 28, 2015

Problems with CREDO’s Charter School Research: Understanding the Issues

Newsletter

September 28, 2015

NEPC Review: Proposed 2015 Federal Teacher Preparation Regulations (U.S. Department of Education, December 2014)

NEPC Review

Kevin K. Kumashiro

January 12, 2015

NEPC Review: Preparing Principals to Raise Student Achievement: Implementation and Effects of the New Leaders Program in Ten Districts (RAND Corporation, May 2014)

NEPC Review

Ed Fuller

June 26, 2014

Debate Intensifies over Value-Added Research

Newsletter

June 24, 2014

Review of Measuring the Impacts of Teachers

NEPC Review

Moshe Adler

April 10, 2014

Review of Two Articles on Principal Effects

NEPC Review

Margaret Terry Orr

March 5, 2013

Policy Reforms and De-professionalization of Teaching

Policy Brief

Rich Milner

February 28, 2013

NEPC Review: Have We Identified Effective Teachers? (Gates Foundation, January 2013)

NEPC Review

Jesse Rothstein and William J. Mathis

January 31, 2013

An Analysis of the Use and Validity of Test-Based Teacher Evaluations Reported by the Los Angeles Times: 2011

Research Brief

Catherine S. Durso

June 20, 2012

Review of Gathering Feedback for Teaching: Combining High-Quality Observation with Student Surveys and Achievement Gains

NEPC Review

Cassandra Guarino and Brian Stacy

March 13, 2012

Teacher Job Satisfaction Plummets — Survey

Resource Document

Kevin G. Welner

March 7, 2012

Fact Checking the Los Angeles Times’ Defense of Its Teacher Rating Reporting

Newsletter

February 17, 2011

Due Diligence and the Evaluation of Teachers

Research Brief

Derek C. Briggs and Ben Domingue

February 8, 2011

The Overselling of Growth Modeling

Resource Document

Kevin G. Welner

June 1, 2008

A Practitioner’s Guide to Value-Added Assessment (Educational Policy Studies Laboratory Research Monograph)

Research Brief

Edward W. Wiley

January 1, 2006