Publications: Student Achievement

NEPC Review: Apples to Apples: The Definitive Look at School Test Scores in Milwaukee and Wisconsin for 2024 (Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, March 2025)

NEPC Review

Benjamin R. Shear

June 10, 2025

NEPC Review: Testing Theories of Why: Four Keys to Interpreting US Student Achievement Trends (American Enterprise Institute, January 2025)

NEPC Review

Chris Domaleski

April 25, 2025

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NEPC Review: Making the Grade: Accounting for Course Selection in High School Transcripts with Item Response Theory (Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, December 2024)

NEPC Review

Michael Russell

March 25, 2025

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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

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NEPC Review: Pennsylvania’s Education Tax Credit Scholarships: How EITC Serves Children and Families in the Commonwealth (Commonwealth Foundation, September 2024)

NEPC Review

Bruce D. Baker

November 12, 2024

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NEPC Review: Systemwide and Intervention-Specific Effects of Denver Public Schools’ Portfolio District Strategy on Individual Student Achievement (Center for Education Policy Analysis, University of Colorado Denver, September 2024)

NEPC Review

Robert Shand

November 8, 2024

NEPC Review: Ohio Charter Schools After the Pandemic: Are Their Students Still Learning More Than They Would in District Schools? (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, June 2024)

NEPC Review

Bryan Mann

September 24, 2024

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NEPC Review: The Broken Pipeline: Advanced Education Policies at the Local Level (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, April 2024)

NEPC Review

Eunice S. Han

July 18, 2024

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NEPC Review: Spark & Sustain: How All the World’s School Systems Can Improve Learning at Scale (McKinsey & Company, February 2024)

NEPC Review

Clara Fontdevila, Antoni Verger, and Adrián Zancajo

June 13, 2024

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NEPC Review: Public Education at a Crossroads: A Comprehensive Look at K-12 Resources and Outcomes (Reason Foundation, February 2024)

NEPC Review

Clive Belfield

April 10, 2024

NEPC Review: From Surviving to Thriving: K-12 Choice and Opportunity for Rural Texas Students and Teachers (The Heritage Foundation, August 2023)

NEPC Review

Amanda U. Potterton, Annah Rogers, and Jeanne M. Powers

December 8, 2023

NEPC Review: Small Class Sizes for Improving Student Achievement in Primary and Secondary Schools: A Systematic Review (Campbell Collaboration, October 2018)

NEPC Review

Clive Belfield

November 22, 2023

Mark Zuckerberg Tried to Revolutionize American Education With Technology. It Didn’t Go as Planned.

Resource Document

Matt Barnum

October 11, 2023

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We Need Better Education Policy. Summit Public Schools Shows Why.

Research Brief

Alex Molnar, Faith Boninger, Anna Noble, and Meenakshi Mani

September 21, 2023

NEPC Review: The Effects of High-Performing, High-Turnover Teachers on Long-Run Student Achievement: Evidence From Teach for America (Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, November 2022)

NEPC Review

Emilie Mitescu Reagan

March 15, 2023

NEPC Review: The Economic Cost of the Pandemic: State by State (Hoover Institution, January 2023)

NEPC Review

Clive Belfield

March 7, 2023

NEPC Review: The Ohio EdChoice Program’s Impact on School District Enrollments, Finances, and Academics (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, December 2022)

NEPC Review

Joshua Cowen

February 21, 2023

NEPC Review: #StudentsFirst: Empowering Parents to Help Students Regain Lost Learning (The Buckeye Institute, September 2022)

NEPC Review

David S. Knight

November 22, 2022

NEPC Review: Pathways to Success: Exploring the Long-Term Outcomes of Alumni from Summit Public Schools (Summit Public Schools, September 2021)

NEPC Review

Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

May 10, 2022

NEPC Review: Equity Elementary: “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” Staff in Public Schools (Heritage Foundation, October 2021)

NEPC Review

Edward García Fierros

January 25, 2022

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

Policy Memo

Kate Baca and Michelle Renée Valladares

January 6, 2022

NEPC Review: Ohio’s Lost Einsteins: The Inequitable Outcomes of Early High Achievers (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, September 2021)

NEPC Review

Eunice S. Han and Yongmei Ni

December 2, 2021

NEPC Review: Florida Versus Kentucky: School Choice Improves Public School Performance, Too (Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions, May 2021)

NEPC Review

Samuel E. Abrams and Steven J. Koutsavlis

July 15, 2021

NEPC Review: Education Freedom and Student Achievement: Is More School Choice Associated with Higher State-Level Performance on the NAEP? (University of Arkansas Department of Education Reform, March 2021)

NEPC Review

T. Jameson Brewer and Joel R. Malin

June 16, 2021

Making Early Literacy Policy Work: Three Considerations for Policymakers Based on Kentucky’s “Read to Succeed” Act

Policy Brief

Amy Cummings

June 3, 2021

NEPC Review: Language Counts: Supporting Early Math Development for Dual Language Learners (Bellwether Education Partners, October 2020)

NEPC Review

Sylvia Celedón-Pattichis

March 2, 2021

NEPC Review: The Third Way: A Guide to Implementing Innovation Schools (Progressive Policy Institute, October 2020)

NEPC Review

Carrie Sampson and Sarah Diem

January 21, 2021

NEPC Review: Changes in the Performance of Students in Charter and District Sectors of U.S. Education: An Analysis of Nationwide Trends (The Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University, September 2020)

NEPC Review

Yongmei Ni and Eunice S. Han

December 4, 2020

Making Next Year Count: Equity in School Accountability (Bellwether Education Partners, Summer 2020)

NEPC Review

Ed Fuller

October 15, 2020

NEPC Review: Comparing Ed Reforms: Assessing the Experimental Research on Nine K-12 Education Reforms (EdChoice, April 2020)

NEPC Review

Bruce D. Baker

May 27, 2020

NEPC Review: Charter Schools in Newark: The Effect on Student Test Scores (Manhattan Institute, January 2020)

NEPC Review

Mark Weber

March 17, 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

NEPC Review: Rising Tide: Charter School Market Share and Student Achievement (Thomas B. Fordham Institute , September 2019)

NEPC Review

Yongmei Ni

November 14, 2019

NEPC Review: Student Achievement in Florida's Charter Schools (Florida Department of Education, March 2019)

NEPC Review

Robert Bifulco

June 18, 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 Effects of the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program on College Enrollment and Graduation: An Update (Urban Institute, February 2019)

NEPC Review

Jaekyung Lee

March 28, 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: The Opportunity Myth (TNTP, September 2018)

NEPC Review

Amanda Datnow

January 24, 2019

NEPC Review: Making a Difference: Six Places Where Teacher Evaluation Systems Are Getting Results (National Council on Teacher Quality, October 2018)

NEPC Review

Amy N. Farley and Leah Chamberlain

December 4, 2018

NEPC Review: Fiscal and Education Spillovers from Charter School Expansion (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, July 2018)

NEPC Review

Clive Belfield

October 5, 2018

NEPC Review: Systems for Success: Thinking Beyond Access to AP (The Education Trust, July 2017)

NEPC Review

Beth C. Rubin

September 25, 2018

Reviews Worth Sharing: An Impact Analysis of North Carolina's Opportunity Scholarship Program on Student Achievement (June 2018)

Reviews Worth Sharing

Kristopher Nordstrom

July 12, 2018

NEPC Review: Bigger Bang, Fewer Bucks? (University of Arkansas Department of Education Reform, February 2018)

NEPC Review

Julian Vasquez Heilig

May 10, 2018

NEPC Review: Do Impacts on Test Scores Even Matter? (American Enterprise Institute, March 2018)

NEPC Review

Christopher Lubienski and T. Jameson Brewer

May 3, 2018

Full-Time Virtual and Blended Schools: Enrollment, Student Characteristics, and Performance

Research Brief

Gary Miron, Christopher Shank, and Caryn Davidson

May 1, 2018

NEPC Review: Charter Schools and the Achievement Gap (Brookings Institution, February 2018)

NEPC Review

Chris Torres and Joanne W. Golann

April 11, 2018

Education Interview of the Month: Greg Smith Interviews Warren Simmons About Systemic Change in Schools

FYI

Gregory A. Smith and Warren Simmons

March 7, 2018

NEPC Review: Evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund: Final Report on Implementation and Impact of Pay-for-Performance Across Four Years (Institute of Education Sciences, December 2017)

NEPC Review

Francesca López

February 27, 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

Don't Expect Too Much: The Limited Usefulness of Common SES Measures and a Prescription for Change

Policy Brief

Michael Harwell

January 30, 2018

NEPC Review: School District Reform in Newark (National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2017)

NEPC Review

Mark Weber and Bruce D. Baker

December 14, 2017

NEPC Review: Teacher Absenteeism in Charter and Traditional Public Schools (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, September 2017)

NEPC Review

Patricia H. Hinchey

November 7, 2017

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: Charter Management Organizations 2017 (Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO), June 2017)

NEPC Review

Gary Miron and Christopher Shank

September 7, 2017

A Continuous Improvement Approach to Indicator Development

FYI

William R. Penuel, Michelle Renée Valladares, and Elizabeth J. Meyer

July 19, 2017

NEPC Review: Back to the Staffing Surge: The Great Teacher Salary Stagnation and the Decades-Long Employment Growth in American Public Schools (EdChoice, May 2017)

NEPC Review

Joydeep Roy and William J. Mathis

July 5, 2017

NEPC Review: Understanding a Vicious Cycle: Do Out-of-School Suspensions Impact Student Test Scores? (University of Arkansas Department of Education Reform, March 2017)

NEPC Review

Brea L. Perry and Daniel J. Losen

June 1, 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: New York Charter Schools Outperform Traditional Selective Public Schools: More Evidence that Cream-Skimming is Not Driving Charters' Success (Manhattan Institute , March 2017)

NEPC Review

Sarah Cordes

May 9, 2017

NEPC Review: Apples to Apples: The Definitive Look at School Test Scores in Milwaukee and Wisconsin (Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, March 2017)

NEPC Review

Benjamin R. Shear

April 25, 2017

Virtual Schools in the U.S. 2017

Research Brief

Alex Molnar, Gary Miron, Charisse Gulosino, Christopher Shank, Caryn Davidson, Michael K. Barbour, Luis A. Huerta, Sheryl Rankin Shafer, Jennifer King Rice, and David Nitkin

April 11, 2017

Review of Within Our Grasp: Achieving Higher Admissions Standards in Teacher Prep

NEPC Review

Marilyn Cochran-Smith, Megina Baker, Wen-Chia Chang, M. Beatriz Fernández, and Elizabeth Stringer Keefe

March 23, 2017

Examples of Indicators Focused on Equity, Quality, and Climate

FYI

William R. Penuel, Elizabeth J. Meyer, and Michelle Renée Valladares

February 1, 2017

NEPC Review: For Good Measure? Teacher Evaluation Policy in the ESSA Era (Bellwether Education Partners, December 2016)

NEPC Review

Amy N. Farley

February 22, 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

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

NEPC Review

Erica Frankenberg

December 19, 2016

NEPC Review: A 21st Century School System in the Mile-High City (Progressive Policy Institute, May 2016)

NEPC Review

Terrenda White

July 26, 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: School Spending and Student Achievement in Michigan: What's the Relationship? (Mackinac Center, April 2016)

NEPC Review

Bruce D. Baker

May 13, 2016

Review of 2016 Brown Center Report on American Education Part II: Tracking and Advanced Placement

NEPC Review

Marshall Jean

April 26, 2016

Community Schools as an Effective Strategy for Reform

Policy Memo

Julia Daniel and Jon Snyder

March 8, 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 Special Education and English Language Learner Students in Boston Charter Schools

NEPC Review

Julie F. Mead and Mark Weber

February 17, 2016

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

NEPC Review

Joseph Cimpian

December 3, 2015

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

Policy Memo

Kevin G. Welner

October 28, 2015

NEPC Review: Measuring Diversity in Charter School Offerings (American Enterprise Institute, July 2015)

NEPC Review

Arnold Danzig and William J. Mathis

September 1, 2015

NEPC Review: School Closures and Student Achievement: An Analysis of Ohio's Urban District and Charter Schools (Fordham Institute, April 2015)

NEPC Review

Ben Kirshner and Matthew Gaertner

June 16, 2015

Virtual Schools in the U.S. 2015: Politics, Performance, Policy, and Research Evidence

Research Brief

Alex Molnar, Luis A. Huerta, Michael K. Barbour, Gary Miron, Sheryl Rankin Shafer, and Charisse Gulosino

March 10, 2015

Review of The Texas Economy and School Choice

NEPC Review

Christopher Lubienski and Ee-Seul Yoon

February 17, 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: No Excuses Charter Schools: A Meta-Analysis of the Experimental Evidence (University of Arkansas Department of Education Reform, December 2014)

NEPC Review

Jeanne M. Powers

January 20, 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: The Economic Benefits of Closing Educational Achievement Gaps (Center for American Progress, November 2014)

NEPC Review

Clive Belfield

December 4, 2014

NEPC Review: Virtual Schooling and Student Learning: Evidence from the Florida Virtual School (Harvard University Program on Education Policy and Governance)

NEPC Review

Michael K. Barbour

October 28, 2014

NEPC Review: A Meta-Analysis of the Literature on the Effect of Charter Schools on Student Achievement (Center on Reinventing Public Education, August 2014)

NEPC Review

Francesca López

September 30, 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

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

Review of The Effect of Co-locations on Student Achievement in NYC Public Schools

NEPC Review

Tina Trujillo and Marialena Rivera

April 15, 2014

Review of The Economic Benefits of New York City's Public School Reforms, 2002-2013

NEPC Review

Sean P. Corcoran

March 31, 2014

Virtual Schools in the U.S. 2014: Politics, Performance, Policy, and Research Evidence

Research Brief

Alex Molnar, Luis A. Huerta, Jennifer King Rice, Sheryl Rankin Shafer, Michael K. Barbour, Gary Miron, Charisse Gulosino, and Brian Horvitz

March 4, 2014

Does Class Size Matter?

Policy Brief

February 18, 2014

Teach for America: A Return to the Evidence

Policy Brief

Julian Vasquez Heilig and Su Jin Jez

January 7, 2014

Review of An Opportunity Culture for All: Making Teaching a Highly Paid, High-Impact Profession

NEPC Review

Patricia H. Hinchey

December 12, 2013

Review of Two Presentations on the Portfolio School Model

NEPC Review

Elizabeth DeBray and Huriya Jabbar

October 8, 2013

Review of The Lessons of No Child Left Behind

NEPC Review

Bruce Fuller

August 27, 2013

NEPC Review: KIPP Middle Schools: Impacts on Achievement and Other Outcomes (Mathematica Policy Research, February 2013)

NEPC Review

Gregory Camilli

April 30, 2013

Review of Mayoral Governance and Student Achievement

NEPC Review

Katrina Bulkley

April 23, 2013

Review of Two Articles on Principal Effects

NEPC Review

Margaret Terry Orr

March 5, 2013

NEPC Review: The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood (January 2012)

NEPC Review

Dale Ballou

February 16, 2012

Reviews Worth Sharing: Myths and Facts about Value-Added Analysis (TNTP, November 2011)

Reviews Worth Sharing

Matthew Di Carlo

November 11, 2011

NEPC Review: Do High Flyers Maintain Their Altitude? (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, September 2011)

NEPC Review

Jaekyung Lee

October 13, 2011

NEPC Review: Incomplete: How Middle Class Schools Aren't Making the Grade (September 2011)

NEPC Review

Bruce D. Baker

September 22, 2011

Why Comparing NAEP Poverty Achievement Gaps Across States Doesn’t Work

Reviews Worth Sharing

Bruce D. Baker

September 13, 2011

NEPC Review: Florida Formula for Student Achievement: Lessons for the Nation (ExcelinEd, June 2011)

NEPC Review

William J. Mathis

June 30, 2011

NEPC Review: Passing Muster: Evaluating Teacher Evaluation Systems (April 2011)

NEPC Review

Bruce D. Baker

May 18, 2011

Linking Learning to the 21st Century: Preparing All Students for College, Career, and Civic Participation

Legislative Brief

Marisa Saunders and Christopher A. Chrisman

April 7, 2011

Due Diligence and the Evaluation of Teachers

Research Brief

Derek C. Briggs and Ben Domingue

February 8, 2011

NEPC Review: Students in N.J. Charter Schools Outperform Those in Local School Districts, Data Shows (January 2011)

NEPC Review

Bruce D. Baker

January 26, 2011

Review of Waiting for Superman

NEPC Review

Elizabeth Dutro

January 24, 2011

NEPC Review: Learning About Teaching (December 2010)

NEPC Review

Jesse Rothstein

January 13, 2011

NEPC Review: U.S. Math Performance in Global Perspective: How Well Does Each State Do at Producing High-Achieving Students? (November 2010)

NEPC Review

Jeremy Kilpatrick

January 11, 2011

NEPC Review: 2010 State School Report Card (October 2010)

NEPC Review

Edward García Fierros and Bridget Rooney

December 14, 2010

Getting Teacher Assessment Right: What Policymakers Can Learn From Research

Policy Brief

Patricia H. Hinchey

December 7, 2010

NEPC Review: Closing the Racial Achievement Gap (September 2010)

NEPC Review

Madhabi Chatterji

November 30, 2010

Teach For America: A Review of the Evidence

Policy Brief

Julian Vasquez Heilig and Su Jin Jez

June 9, 2010

NEPC Review: Has Progress Been Made in Raising Achievement for English Language Learners? (April 2010)

NEPC Review

Jeff MacSwan

May 19, 2010

NEPC Review: Fix the City Schools: Moving All Schools to Charter-Like Autonomy (March 2010)

NEPC Review

Katrina Bulkley

April 15, 2010

NEPC Review: Stuck Schools: A Framework for Identifying Schools Where Students Need Change - Now (Education Trust, February 2010)

NEPC Review

Jaekyung Lee

April 7, 2010

NEPC Review: Connecticut's Charter School Law and Race to the Top (ConnCAN, February 2010)

NEPC Review

Robert Bifulco

March 10, 2010

Universal Access to a Quality Education: Research and Recommendations for the Elimination of Curricular Stratification

Legislative Brief

Carol C. Burris, Kevin G. Welner, and Jennifer Bezoza

December 14, 2009

NEPC Review: Everyone Wins: How Charter Schools Benefit All New York City Public School Students (Manhattan Institute, October 2009)

NEPC Review

Patrick McEwan

November 17, 2009

NEPC Review: How New York City’s Charter Schools Affect Achievement (September 2009)

NEPC Review

Sean Reardon

November 12, 2009

The Bracey Report on the Condition of Public Education, 2009

Policy Brief

Gerald W. Bracey

November 9, 2009

NEPC Review: Multiple Choice: Charter School Performance in 16 States (June 2009)

NEPC Review

Gary Miron and Brooks Applegate

June 24, 2009

NEPC Review: Charter Schools in Eight States: Effects on Achievement, Attainment, Integration and Competition (March 2009)

NEPC Review

Derek C. Briggs

May 27, 2009

NEPC Review: The Impact of Milwaukee Charter Schools on Student Achievement (March 2009)

NEPC Review

Robert Bifulco

May 5, 2009

The Realities of K-12 Virtual Education

Policy Brief

Gene V Glass

April 20, 2009

NEPC Review: An Evaluation of Teachers Trained Through Different Routes to Certification: Final Report (February 2009)

NEPC Review

Jennifer Jennings and Sean P. Corcoran

March 10, 2009

Poverty and Potential: Out-of-School Factors and School Success

Policy Brief

David C. Berliner

March 9, 2009

What Do We Know About the Outcomes of KIPP Schools?

Policy Brief

Jeffrey R. Henig

November 10, 2008

High Stakes, but Low Validity? A Case Study of Standardized Tests and Admissions into New York City Specialized High Schools

Research Brief

Joshua Feinman

October 22, 2008

NEPC Review: Education Olympics 2008: The Games in Review (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, August 2008)

NEPC Review

Edward García Fierros and Mindy L. Kornhaber

October 15, 2008

NEPC Review: The Misplaced Math Student: Lost in Eighth-Grade Algebra (September 2008)

NEPC Review

Carol C. Burris

October 14, 2008

NEPC Review: Promising Start: An Empirical Analysis of How EdChoice Vouchers Affect Ohio Public Schools (August 2008)

NEPC Review

Christopher Lubienski

September 8, 2008

NEPC Review: High-Achieving Students in the Era of NCLB (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, June 2008)

NEPC Review

Gregory Camilli

July 29, 2008

Strengthening the Link Between Effective School Expenditures and State Funding Mechanisms

Policy Brief

Anthony Rolle

July 14, 2008

The Overselling of Growth Modeling

Resource Document

Kevin G. Welner

June 1, 2008

NEPC Review: The Effect of Special Education Vouchers on Public School Achievement: Evidence from Florida's McKay Scholarship Program (Manhattan Institute, April 2008)

NEPC Review

John T. Yun

May 22, 2008

School Choice: Evidence and Recommendations

Policy Brief

David Arsen, Clive Belfield, Marisa Cannata, Wendy C. Chi, Casey Cobb, Stephanie Evergreen, Gregg Garn, Christopher Lubienski, Julie F. Mead, Roslyn Arlin Mickelson, Gary Miron, Yongmei Ni, Stephanie Southworth, Jessica Urschel, and Terri S. Wilson

March 20, 2008

Accountability, Rigor, and Detracking

Resource Document

Carol C. Burris, Edward W. Wiley, and Kevin G. Welner

March 1, 2008

School Choice and Segregation by Race, Class, and Achievement

Policy Brief

Roslyn Arlin Mickelson, Martha Bottia, and Stephanie Southworth

March 1, 2008

The Impact of School Choice Reforms on Student Achievement

Policy Brief

Gary Miron, Stephanie Evergreen, and Jessica Urschel

March 1, 2008

NEPC Review: Are Private High Schools Better Academically Than Public High Schools? (October 2007)

NEPC Review

Jaekyung Lee

December 12, 2007

NEPC Review: Answering the Question That Matters Most: Has Student Achievement Increased Since No Child Left Behind? (June 2007)

NEPC Review

John T. Yun

June 26, 2007

NEPC Review: State Takeover, School Restructuring, Private Management, and Student Achievement in Philadelphia (February 2007)

NEPC Review

Derek C. Briggs

May 7, 2007

NEPC Review: On the Public-Private School Achievement Debate (August 2006)

NEPC Review

Christopher Lubienski and Sarah Lubienski

August 30, 2006

NEPC Review: The State of High School Education in Wisconsin: A Tale of Two Wisconsins (January 2006)

NEPC Review

William J. Mathis

February 17, 2006

High-Stakes Testing and Student Achievement: Problems for the No Child Left Behind Act

Research Brief

Sharon L. Nichols, Gene V Glass, and David C. Berliner

January 1, 2005

Academic Achievement of English Language Learners in Post Proposition 203 Arizona

Research Brief

Wayne Wright and Chang Pu

January 1, 2005

Education's 'Groundhog Day'

Legacy Publication

Gerald W. Bracey

January 1, 2005

The Impacts of Charter Schools on Student Achievement: Evidence From North Carolina

Resource Document

August 1, 2004

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

Closing the Gap: Enhancing Student Outcomes in an Urban Professional Development School

Resource Document

Janette K. Klingner, S. Ahwee, D. Van Garderen, and C. Hernandez

January 1, 2004

Class-Size Reduction: A Fresh Look at the Data

Legacy Publication

Philip Smith, Alex Molnar, and John Zahorik

January 1, 2003

An Introduction to Multidimensional Measurement using Rasch Models

Resource Document

Derek C. Briggs and Mark Wilson

January 1, 2003

Smaller Classes–Not Vouchers–Increase Student Achievement

Legacy Publication

Alex Molnar

January 1, 1998

An Examination of Sustaining Effects in Descubriendo La Lectura Programs

Resource Document

O. Ruiz, M. Loera, Y. Rodriguez, and Kathy Escamilla

January 1, 1998

Inclusion of Limited-English-Proficient Students in Rhode Island's Grade 4 Mathematics Performance Assessment

Resource Document

Grace Taylor and Damian W. Betebenner

January 1, 1998

Measuring Achievement: What Does It Mean to Test for Robust Understanding?

Resource Document

Lorrie Shepard

January 1, 1997

Constructing Cultural Difference and Educational Achievement in Schools

Resource Document

Margaret Eisenhart and M. E. Graue

January 1, 1992