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To Test or Not to Test? What Research Has to Say About the SAT and ACT

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August 7, 2025

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New Learning Guides Explain Why Public Education is a Public Good

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July 24, 2025

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What Would Be the Impact if Trump Succeeds in Defunding Programs Helping the Children of Migrant Families and Students Learning English? A Q&A.

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July 17, 2025

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Do Vouchers Help Make Private Schools More Diverse?

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July 10, 2025

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Adequacy Without Equity: The Anatomy of a School Finance Lawsuit

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July 3, 2025

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Debunking DEI Misconceptions

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June 5, 2025

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New Data Dashboard Highlights Opportunity Gaps

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May 13, 2025

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Educational Equity in a Post-Pandemic World. What’s Next?

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April 15, 2025

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Fighting DEI Lies

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March 6, 2025

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Can School Boards Save DEI?

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February 6, 2025

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Help or Harmful? The Federal Role in Supporting Students with Disabilities in Schools

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September 3, 2024

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Improving Out-of-School Enrichment for Minoritized Youth

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May 9, 2024

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Can a “Low-Touch” Intervention Help Make School Choice More Equitable?

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February 1, 2024

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Equity-Focused Deeper Learning: Three Key Strategies

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December 5, 2023

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2020 Was a Horror Show. Is There Anything We Should Learn From Schools’ Response?

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October 31, 2023

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Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. Harvard College: Eight Takeaways

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October 26, 2023

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School Integration: A Path Forward

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October 18, 2023

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New Study Places NOLA Portfolio Schools Within a History of Anti-Black Racism

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August 10, 2023

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How Corporate Welfare Can Pilfer Money From Marginalized Students and Their Schools

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August 3, 2023

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Nine Ways to Shrink the Opportunity Gap in Early Childhood

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July 27, 2023

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Furthering Integration in an Era of Resegregation

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July 20, 2023

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The U.S. Supreme Court Decision That Finished Off Affirmative Action: NEPC Experts Weigh In

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July 6, 2023

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Seven Ways to Make Equity Research Matter More

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June 22, 2023

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Eight Ways to Increase Charter School Equity

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May 9, 2023

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How Can Charter School Authorizers Encourage Equity?

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May 4, 2023

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Can Cross-Sector Collaboration Make Education More Equitable?

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April 4, 2023

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Introducing Students to Civic Engagement: Six Practical Tips

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February 28, 2023

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The Concerning Connection Between School Spending, Poverty, and Race

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February 23, 2023

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New Book Shows How High Schools Can Become Schools of Opportunity

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February 2, 2023

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Another Troubling Link Between K-12 Spending and Student Demographics

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November 29, 2022

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Tracing Pre-K’s Early Racist Implementation to Present-Day Policies

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November 3, 2022

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Nine Ways to Hold Teacher Prep Programs Accountable for Equity

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September 22, 2022

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Does Mask Wearing Depend on COVID Victims’ Race?

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August 23, 2022

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The School-to-Deportation Pipeline: The Other School Safety Concern

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August 18, 2022

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Five Ways to Encourage Equitable School Rezoning

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August 4, 2022

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Three Ways Research-Practice Partnerships Can Support Equity-Based Reforms

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June 16, 2022

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What’s Wrong With Open Enrollment?

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June 9, 2022

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The White Innocence Playbook

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May 26, 2022

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The Pandemic’s Pernicious Effect on Preschool

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May 17, 2022

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“Don’t Say Gay” Laws Are Nothing New

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April 19, 2022

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Is School Choice Really About Equity? Can It Be?

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March 3, 2022

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U.S. Supreme Court Decision Sounds Death Knell for Race-Conscious College Admissions Policies: A Q&A With Gary Orfield

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February 1, 2022

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New Report Details the School-Level Impact of the Anti-CRT Conflict Campaign

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January 27, 2022

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Opportunity to Learn Indicators: Why They Matter More Than Ever Right Now

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January 13, 2022

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Is This Pre-K Program Worsening the Racial Disparities It Was Supposed to Address?

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January 11, 2022

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Equity-Centered Alternatives to Policing in Schools: Lessons From Research

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December 9, 2021

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The Subversion of IDEA and Federal Policies Designed to Reduce Racial Disparities in Special Education

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October 12, 2021

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Why Educational Funding Is More Than School Funding

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October 7, 2021

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The “Great Equalizer” Myth

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October 5, 2021

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“Toxic” Schools? Study Suggests Stressful School Environments Can Impact Student Health

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September 28, 2021

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Normal Was Never Enough. COVID Offers the Opportunity to Improve the Status Quo

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September 14, 2021

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One Year into Police-Free Schools: Three Trends to Know

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June 29, 2021

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Retaining Educators of Color: Some Practical Advice.

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May 20, 2021

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Expelling Evidence: State Lawmakers Seek to Whitewash Fact-Based Discussions of Race in the Classroom

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May 11, 2021

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These Schools Are Attending to Equity During COVID. Here’s How.

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April 29, 2021

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“Deep Poverty”: What It Is and Why It Matters to Schools

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February 23, 2021

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62,596 Years of Instruction Are Lost Annually, and It Has Nothing to Do With COVID

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January 12, 2021

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The Pandemic to Prison Pipeline: A Timely Q&A

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December 10, 2020

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Higher Ed Alliances Expand Racial Justice Movement

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December 1, 2020

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What is TribalCrit?

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November 26, 2020

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What’s Next for PreK-12 Funding? Austerity, Subsistence or Investment?

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November 19, 2020

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“Curriculum Punishment.” What It Is and Why You Need To Know About It Now

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November 12, 2020

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More Than One in Five Americans is Food Insecure. It’s Even Worse for Kids.

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November 5, 2020

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Community Schools Are Adapting to Remote Learning. Here’s How.

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October 8, 2020

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Scholars Strike Back Against Attacks on Anti-Racist Education

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October 6, 2020

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RBG and Education: A Legacy of Equity

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October 1, 2020

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Want to Reduce Racism in Schools? Listen to These Students.

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September 22, 2020

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#ScholarStrike May Be Especially Relevant to Education Scholars

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September 8, 2020

To Reopen or Not to Reopen: Equity-Related Arguments For and Against Resuming In-Person Instruction This Fall

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August 20, 2020

Practical Advice on Addressing Racial Justice in K-12 Schools: A Q&A with Gloria Ladson-Billings

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August 13, 2020

The Misguided Push to Reintroduce Standardized Testing During the Pandemic

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August 6, 2020

The Most Important School Desegregation Case You’ve Never Heard Of

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July 10, 2020

Three Ways to Emphasize Equity During School Closures

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May 14, 2020

Incarcerated Children During the Pandemic

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April 30, 2020

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

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April 21, 2020

NEPC Valentine’s Day Special: A Dozen Roses for Public Education

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February 13, 2020

Between-District Desegregation: Three Districts That Are Doing It Right

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February 11, 2020

Landmark Voucher Case Could Foster Discrimination and Further Lower the Church-State Wall of Separation

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January 30, 2020

Will 2020 Be the Year of Acknowledging Opportunity Gaps?

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January 23, 2020

The Dark Side of Parent Fundraising

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December 17, 2019

Are Zillow and Realtors Contributing to School Segregation?

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December 12, 2019

How to Start a Social Justice Reading Group in Four Easy Steps

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December 3, 2019

Trauma Belongs in Schools. This New Book Explains Why.

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October 31, 2019

Five Charts That Show Why We Really Need to Track Educational Equity

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October 8, 2019

White Fragility. What it Looks Like in Schools

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October 1, 2019

Who “Gets” to Be Bilingual?

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September 24, 2019

Neo-Segregation: Communities That Divorce Their School Districts

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September 19, 2019

Bad and Better News about School Segregation

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September 12, 2019

Six Ways Trump “Public Benefits” Policies Could Harm Children

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August 22, 2019

This Professor Studied Undocumented Students. Then He Started a Scholarship for Them

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June 6, 2019

Backpedaling on Brown: The Re-Segregation of Our Nation’s Schools

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May 16, 2019

Voluntary Integration in the Age of Trump: A Q&A with NEPC Fellow Erica Frankenberg

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April 9, 2019

Advice on Keeping Immigrant Students Safe at School

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April 4, 2019

The Maddening Side of March Madness: A Q&A with NEPC Fellow Shaun Harper

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March 21, 2019

Share Feedback on This New Social Justice Reading Group Guide

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February 19, 2019

Affirmative Action on Trial. Again.

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February 12, 2019

A School Where All Students Are Challenged and Supported

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February 5, 2019

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos Axed Guidance That Cracked Down on Unfair Punishments for Students of Color. What Should Schools Do Next?

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January 10, 2019

The Education Debt

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November 20, 2018

The Connection Between Poverty, Race and College Preparation in Five Charts

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November 8, 2018

Statement Supporting Trans Community

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October 30, 2018

School Poverty Rates: How High Before They Harm Students?

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October 25, 2018

These Comeback Kids Don’t Bake Cookies: The Community-Based Transformation of an Urban School

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October 16, 2018

Are Four-Day Weeks Bad for Students?

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September 4, 2018

New Jersey Desegregation Case Could Make Waves

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July 10, 2018

Joint Statement Concerning the Trump Administration Policy on Family Immigration from the School of Education at the University of Colorado Boulder, BUENO Center for Multicultural Education, and the National Education Policy Center

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June 28, 2018

School Discipline: Learning the Wrong Lesson from the Parkland Shootings

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June 21, 2018

School Closures: When a School is More than Just a School

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May 15, 2018

Seaside High School Exemplifies How Schools Can Help Students Learn by Providing Them Rich Learning Opportunities

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March 1, 2018

National Program Recognizing Outstanding and Equitable High Schools Announces its First Accolades

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May 7, 2015

National Education Policy Center Launches “Schools of Opportunity” Project To Recognize Top High Schools

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October 2, 2014

Leading Educators Call for a New Direction for Education Reform, Focused on the Opportunity Gap

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April 25, 2013