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Testing and Accountability: The Federal Role

Newsletter

September 26, 2024

Jamaal Bowman Discusses the "More Teaching Less Testing Act of 2023"

FYI

Jamaal Bowman

October 13, 2023

Testing is Broken. Can This Bill Fix It?

Newsletter

October 5, 2023

NEPC Review: As a Matter of Fact: National Charter School Study III 2023 (Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO), June 2023)

NEPC Review

Joseph J. Ferrare

September 8, 2023

Whole Child Education: How Four Nations Compare

Newsletter

August 17, 2023

Consumer-Oriented School Rating Systems and Their Implications for Educational Equity

Policy Brief

Jeanne M. Powers

April 13, 2023

NEPC Talks Education: An Interview With Derek Briggs and Scott Marion About State and National Test Results

Podcasts

Christopher Saldaña, Derek C. Briggs, and Scott Marion

January 20, 2022

Spring 2021 Exam Results Are In. Now What?

Newsletter

October 28, 2021

Five Myths About Education

Newsletter

October 21, 2021

Five Myths About Teaching

Newsletter

May 4, 2021

NEPC Talks Education: An Interview with Lorrie Shepard About Standardized Testing Policy

Podcasts

Christopher Saldaña and Lorrie Shepard

April 15, 2021

NEPC Review: School Accountability--Past, Present, and Future (Hoover Institution, November 2020)

NEPC Review

Gail L. Sunderman

February 10, 2021

NEPC Review: Student Assessment During COVID-19 (Center for American Progress, September 2020)

NEPC Review

Gene V Glass, William J. Mathis, and David C. Berliner

October 30, 2020

Coronavirus Testing Cancellations Threatened to Worsen Inequities. So These Students Spoke Out

Newsletter

April 21, 2020

Four Big Takeaways About Testing

Newsletter

March 5, 2020

NEPC Review: Fewer Children Left Behind: Lessons From the Dramatic Achievement Gains of the 1990s and 2000s (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, October 2019)

NEPC Review

Jaekyung Lee

November 26, 2019

College Admissions Fraud and 504 Plans: A Q&A with NEPC Fellow Edward Garcia Fierros

Newsletter

November 12, 2019

A Weak Defense of a Useless Report

Newsletter

May 2, 2019

NEPC Review: The Michigan Context and Performance Report Card: High Schools 2018 (Mackinac Center, January 2019)

NEPC Review

John T. Yun

April 18, 2019

A Consumer’s Guide to Testing under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA): What Can the Common Core and Other ESSA Assessments Tell Us?

Resource Document

Madhabi Chatterji

March 5, 2019

NEPC Review: Everything You Know About State Education Rankings Is Wrong (Reason Foundation, November 2018)

NEPC Review

Bruce D. Baker

November 27, 2018

High Stakes, Low Validity?

Newsletter

July 19, 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

Education Interview of the Month: Greg Smith Interviews Alyssa Hadley Dunn on Viral Teacher Resignation Letters

FYI

Gregory A. Smith and Alyssa Hadley Dunn

October 17, 2017

School Closure as a Strategy to Remedy Low Performance

Policy Brief

Gail L. Sunderman, Erin Coghlan, and Rick Mintrop

May 18, 2017

NEPC Review: High Stakes for High Achievers:
State Accountability in the Age of ESSA (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, August 2016)

NEPC Review

Beth C. Rubin

January 26, 2017

Lessons from NCLB for the Every Student Succeeds Act

Policy Brief

William J. Mathis and Tina Trujillo

November 17, 2016

Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking - 2016 Collection

Policy Brief

William J. Mathis

August 23, 2016

Review of Measuring School Turnaround Success

NEPC Review

Tina Trujillo and Marialena Rivera

July 20, 2016

Research-Based Expectations for Implementation of the Community Schools Initiative in New York City

Policy Memo

Julia Daniel, Kevin G. Welner, and Michelle Renée Valladares

June 14, 2016

NEPC Review: SchoolGrades.org (Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, September 2015)

NEPC Review

Jaime Del Razo

March 10, 2016

NEPC Review: Lessons From State Performance on NAEP: Why Some High-Poverty Students Score Better Than Others (Center for American Progress , January 2016)

NEPC Review

Sharon L. Nichols

February 26, 2016

Review of The Effects of Test-Based Retention on Student Outcomes Over Time

NEPC Review

Joseph Cimpian

December 3, 2015

Divining the Meaning of the Test Scores

Resource Document

William J. Mathis

November 3, 2015

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

Newsletter

October 28, 2015

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

Policy Memo

Kevin G. Welner

October 28, 2015

NEPC Review: Dramatic Action, Dramatic Improvement: The Research on School Turnaround (Center for American Progress, March 2015)

NEPC Review

Tina Trujillo

May 11, 2015

High-Stakes, Test-Driven Accountability Debated in New York Times

Newsletter

May 4, 2015

NEPC Review: Urban Charter School Study Report on 41 Regions 2015 (Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO), March 2015)

NEPC Review

Andrew Maul

April 27, 2015

Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act: Time to Move Beyond Test-Focused Policies

Policy Memo

Kevin G. Welner and William J. Mathis

February 12, 2015

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