Publications: Poverty

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NEPC Review: Think Again: Are Education Programs for High Achievers Inherently Inequitable? (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, October 2024)

NEPC Review

Margaret Thornton

February 4, 2025

NEPC Review: Searching for the Tipping Point: Scaling up Public School Choice Spurs Citywide Gains (Public Policy Institute, October 2024)

NEPC Review

David R. Garcia

December 4, 2024

NEPC Review: K-12 Without Borders: Public School Students, Families, and Teachers Shut In by Education Boundaries (Manhattan Institute, November 2022)

NEPC Review

Christopher Lubienski and T. Jameson Brewer

March 3, 2023

NEPC Review: Priced Out of Public Schools: District Lines, Housing Access, and Inequitable Educational Options (Bellwether Education Partners, October 2021)

NEPC Review

Erica Frankenberg

March 1, 2022

Centering Students’ Past and Present to Advance Equity in the Future

Policy Memo

Kate Baca and Michelle Renée Valladares

January 6, 2022

From Katrina to COVID-19: How Disaster, Federal Neglect, and the Market Compound Racial Inequities

Policy Memo

Kristen L. Buras

July 28, 2020

NEPC Review: Measuring Student Poverty: Developing Accurate Counts for School Funding, Accountability, and Research (Urban Institute, December 2019)

NEPC Review

Michael Harwell

March 3, 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

Policy Brief

Martin Carnoy and Roxana Marachi

February 4, 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

Reviews Worth Sharing: The Effectiveness of Secondary Math Teachers from Teach for America and the Teaching Fellows Programs (Institute of Education Sciences, September 2013)

Reviews Worth Sharing

Andrew Brantlinger and Matthew Griffin

May 23, 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

Education Interview of the Month: Greg Smith Interviews Noliwe Rooks on School Segregation

FYI

Gregory A. Smith and Noliwe Rooks

November 15, 2018

NEPC Review: Balancing Act: Schools, Neighborhoods, and Racial Imbalance (Brookings Institution, November 2017)

NEPC Review

Genevieve Siegel-Hawley and Erica Frankenberg

February 8, 2018

NEPC Review: Lights Off: Practice and Impact of Closing Low-Performing Schools (Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO), August 2017)

NEPC Review

Matthew Gaertner and Ben Kirshner

October 24, 2017

NEPC Review: Renewing Our Cities (EdChoice, March 2017)

NEPC Review

Jennifer Jellison Holme and Emily Germain

June 20, 2017

NEPC Review: Hidden Money: The Outsized Role of Parent Contributions in School Finance (Center for American Progress, April 2017)

NEPC Review

Maia Cucchiara

June 15, 2017

Law and Order in School and Society: How Discipline and Policing Policies Harm Students of Color, and What We Can Do About It

Policy Brief

Janelle T. Scott, Michele S. Moses, Kara Finnigan, Tina Trujillo, and Darrell Jackson

June 8, 2017

Lifting All Children Up

FYI

Kevin G. Welner

March 21, 2017

NEPC Review: Segregation, Race, and Charter Schools: What Do We Know? (Brookings Institution, October 2016)

NEPC Review

Erica Frankenberg

December 19, 2016

Lessons from NCLB for the Every Student Succeeds Act

Policy Brief

William J. Mathis and Tina Trujillo

November 17, 2016

Independent Teacher Education Programs: Apocryphal Claims, Illusory Evidence

Policy Brief

Kenneth M. Zeichner

September 8, 2016

Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking - 2016 Collection

Policy Brief

William J. Mathis

August 23, 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

Lifting All Children Up

Policy Memo

Kevin G. Welner

March 21, 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

Diverse Housing, Diverse Schooling: How Policy Can Stabilize Racial Demographic Change in Cities and Suburbs

Policy Brief

Amy Stuart Wells

December 15, 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)

NEPC Review

Sarah Lubienski

November 19, 2015

NEPC Review: Do We Already Have Universal Preschool? (Brookings Institution, September 2015)

NEPC Review

W. Steven Barnett

November 12, 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

Policy Memo

Kevin G. Welner

October 28, 2015

Investing in Equal Opportunity: What Would it Take to Build the Balance Wheel?

Policy Brief

Jennifer King Rice

September 15, 2015

NEPC Review: Increasing Education: What it Will and Will Not Do for Earnings and Earnings Inequality (The Hamilton Project, March 2015)

NEPC Review

Marvin Lazerson and Ryan Pfleger

May 18, 2015

State Sen. Alberta Darling's Recovery District Idea is Designed to Fail

Resource Document

Alex Molnar

April 9, 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

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

NEPC Review

Kevin K. Kumashiro

January 12, 2015

Review of Federal School Finance Reform

NEPC Review

Gail L. Sunderman

November 6, 2014

NEPC Review: The Productivity of Public Charter Schools (University of Arkansas Department of Education Reform, July 2014)

NEPC Review

Gene V Glass

August 19, 2014

Seeing Past the “Colorblind” Myth of Education Policy

Policy Brief

Amy Stuart Wells

March 20, 2014

NEPC Review: Updating Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century (Lexington Institute, February 2014)

NEPC Review

Marisa Saunders and Jaime Del Razo

March 18, 2014

Does Class Size Matter?

Policy Brief

February 18, 2014

Review of School Choice and School Performance in the New York City Public Schools

NEPC Review

Patricia Burch, Mary Stewart, and Jahni Smith

November 19, 2013

Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking - 2013 Collection

Policy Brief

William J. Mathis

June 13, 2013

Review of Failure Is Not an Option

NEPC Review

Mark Paige

January 15, 2013

Reform Florida

Policy Brief

Alex Molnar, Douglas N. Harris, Lisa Abrams, Madhabi Chatterji, Mary Lee Smith, Sherman Dorn, Tim Hacsi, and Victoria-Maria MacDonald

January 1, 2004

Arizona Report Finds Poorest Gain Little from Tax Credits

Resource Document

April 10, 2002

What They Did on Vacation: It's Not Schools That Are Failing Poor Kids

Legacy Publication

Gerald W. Bracey

January 1, 2002

Poverty Issues Get Short Shrift in Today's Education Debate

Legacy Publication

Gerald W. Bracey

January 1, 1999