Publications: School Reform and Restructuring
NEPC Review: The Economic Cost of the Pandemic: State by State (Hoover Institution, January 2023)
NEPC Review
March 7, 2023
NEPC Review: The Third Way: A Guide to Implementing Innovation Schools (Progressive Policy Institute, October 2020)
NEPC Review
January 21, 2021
New Concerns Raised About a Well-Known Digital Learning Platform
Resource Document
Community Research Collaboratives
Policy Memo
NEPC Review: School District Reform in Newark (National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2017)
NEPC Review
December 14, 2017
NEPC Review: A 21st Century School System in the Mile-High City (Progressive Policy Institute, May 2016)
NEPC Review
July 26, 2016
Review of Measuring School Turnaround Success
NEPC Review
July 20, 2016
Review of Report Card on American Education
NEPC Review
May 9, 2013
Review of Mayoral Governance and Student Achievement
NEPC Review
April 23, 2013
What Does It Take to Scale Up Innovations?
Policy Brief
NEPC Review: Parent Power: Grass-Roots Activism and K-12 Education Reform (American Enterprise Institute, July 2012)
NEPC Review
September 6, 2012
NEPC Review: What’s Trust Got to Do With It? (Public Agenda, December 2011)
NEPC Review
February 7, 2012
How Many Decades Before 'Reform' Becomes 'Status Quo'?
Resource Document
Review of Organizing Schools to Improve Student Achievement
NEPC Review
November 29, 2011
NEPC Review: Do High Flyers Maintain Their Altitude? (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, September 2011)
NEPC Review
October 13, 2011
Review of Yearning to Break Free: Ohio Superintendents Speak Out
NEPC Review
May 3, 2011
NEPC Review: Reform With Results for New Jersey Schools (December 2010)
NEPC Review
February 10, 2011
Due Diligence and the Evaluation of Teachers
Research Brief
NEPC Review: Students in N.J. Charter Schools Outperform Those in Local School Districts, Data Shows (January 2011)
NEPC Review
January 26, 2011
Review of The Lottery
NEPC Review
January 24, 2011
Review of Waiting for Superman
NEPC Review
January 24, 2011
NEPC Review: Charter Schools: A Report on Rethinking the Federal Role in Education (December 2010)
NEPC Review
January 20, 2011
NEPC Review: Learning About Teaching (December 2010)
NEPC Review
January 13, 2011
Reviews Worth Sharing: Stretching the School Dollar: A Brief for State Policymakers (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, January 2011)
Reviews Worth Sharing
January 7, 2011
NEPC Review: Successful, Safe, and Healthy Students (May 2010)
NEPC Review
October 5, 2010
Teach For America: A Review of the Evidence
Policy Brief
NEPC Review: Behind the Curtain: Assessing the Case for National Standards (February 2010)
NEPC Review
April 21, 2010
NEPC Review: Fix the City Schools: Moving All Schools to Charter-Like Autonomy (March 2010)
NEPC Review
April 15, 2010
NEPC Review: Connecticut's Charter School Law and Race to the Top (ConnCAN, February 2010)
NEPC Review
March 10, 2010
NEPC Review: How School Choice Can Create Jobs for South Carolina (December 2009)
NEPC Review
January 14, 2010
Reviews Worth Sharing: Leaders and Laggards: A State-by-State Report Card on Educational Innovation (November 2009)
Reviews Worth Sharing
December 16, 2009
Reviews Worth Sharing: Tracking and Detracking: High Achievers in Massachusetts Middle Schools (December 2009)
Reviews Worth Sharing
December 14, 2009
NEPC Review: How New York City’s Charter Schools Affect Achievement (September 2009)
NEPC Review
November 12, 2009
NEPC Review: Multiple Choice: Charter School Performance in 16 States (June 2009)
NEPC Review
June 24, 2009
NEPC Review: The Fiscal Impact of Tax-Credit Scholarships in Montana (February 2009)
NEPC Review
June 22, 2009
NEPC Review: Reroute the Preschool Juggernaut (June 2009)
NEPC Review
June 16, 2009
The Neovoucher: A Kissing Cousin in Disguise
Resource Document
NEPC Review: The MPCP Longitudinal Educational Growth Study Second Year Report (March 2009)
NEPC Review
May 28, 2009
NEPC Review: Weighted Student Formula Yearbook 2009 (April 2009)
NEPC Review
May 13, 2009
NEPC Review: The Impact of Milwaukee Charter Schools on Student Achievement (March 2009)
NEPC Review
May 5, 2009
NEPC Review: The Fiscal Impact of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program: 2009 Update (April 2009)
NEPC Review
April 29, 2009
The Realities of K-12 Virtual Education
Policy Brief
NEPC Review: The High Cost of High School Dropouts in Ohio (February 2009)
NEPC Review
March 4, 2009
NEPC Review: "Plotting School Choice" and "In Need of Improvement" (November 2008)
NEPC Review
January 27, 2009
Fellows’ Education Letters to the President
Policy Brief
Legislature's Vouchers Report is Based on Smoke and Mirrors
Resource Document
NEPC Review: Public Charter Schools: A Great Value for Ohio’s Public Education System (November 2008)
NEPC Review
December 10, 2008
NEPC Review: Reports on 10 state public opinion surveys on K-12 school choice (October 2008)
NEPC Review
December 2, 2008
What Do We Know About the Outcomes of KIPP Schools?
Policy Brief
NEPC Review: Education Olympics 2008: The Games in Review (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, August 2008)
NEPC Review
October 15, 2008
NEPC Review: The Misplaced Math Student: Lost in Eighth-Grade Algebra (September 2008)
NEPC Review
October 14, 2008
NEPC Review: Promising Start: An Empirical Analysis of How EdChoice Vouchers Affect Ohio Public Schools (August 2008)
NEPC Review
September 8, 2008
Under the Voucher Radar
Resource Document
NEPC Review: High-Achieving Students in the Era of NCLB (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, June 2008)
NEPC Review
July 29, 2008
The Overselling of Growth Modeling
Resource Document
NEPC Review: Choice and Education across the States (April 2008)
NEPC Review
April 29, 2008
NEPC Review: How Sound an Investment? An Analysis of Federal Prekindergarten Proposals (March 2008)
NEPC Review
March 24, 2008
How Legislation and Litigation Shape School Choice
Policy Brief
School Choice and Accountability
Policy Brief
Accountability, Rigor, and Detracking
Resource Document
The Privatization Infatuation
Legacy Publication
NEPC Review: The High Cost of Failing to Reform Public Education in Missouri (March 2006)
NEPC Review
January 9, 2008
Who Chooses Schools, and Why?
Policy Brief
NEPC Review: Are Private High Schools Better Academically Than Public High Schools? (October 2007)
NEPC Review
December 12, 2007
NEPC Review: The ABC's of School Choice (September 2007)
NEPC Review
September 24, 2007
NEPC Review: Report Card on American Education (November 2006)
NEPC Review
January 8, 2007
Dropout Policies: Research-Based Strategies
Policy Brief
Truthiness in Education
Legacy Publication
The Use of Assessment for Curricular Differentiation
Resource Document
Demanding More of Presidential Candidates
Resource Document
Teacher Attrition in Charter Schools
Policy Brief
NEPC Review: Segregation Levels in Cleveland Public Schools and the Cleveland Voucher Program (August 2006)
NEPC Review
October 5, 2006
NEPC Review: The State of State Standards 2006 (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, August 2006)
NEPC Review
September 11, 2006
NEPC Review: On the Public-Private School Achievement Debate (August 2006)
NEPC Review
August 30, 2006
NEPC Review: The Financial Impact of Ohio's Charter Schools (July 2006)
NEPC Review
August 1, 2006
NEPC Review: Trends in Charter School Authorizing (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, May 2006)
NEPC Review
May 10, 2006
NEPC Review: Spreading Freedom and Saving Money: The Fiscal Impact of the D.C. Voucher Program (January 2006)
NEPC Review
February 20, 2006
NEPC Review: The State of High School Education in Wisconsin: A Tale of Two Wisconsins (January 2006)
NEPC Review
February 17, 2006
Alternative Approaches to the Politics of Detracking
Resource Document
Bush Education Law Shows Mixed Results in First Test
Resource Document
Our Impoverished View of Educational Reform
Resource Document
Education's 'Groundhog Day'
Legacy Publication
Data Point to Failure
Legacy Publication
Closing the Achievement Gap by Detracking
Resource Document
On School Choice and Test-Based Accountability
Resource Document
Left Back: Punditry or History?
Resource Document
Reform Florida
Policy Brief
The State of Preschool: 2003 State Preschool Yearbook
Legacy Publication
Data on Charters Lacking
Legacy Publication
The AFT Charter School Study: Not News
Legacy Publication
Rethinking Expert Testimony in Education Rights Legislation
Resource Document
An Introduction to Multidimensional Measurement using Rasch Models
Resource Document
An Analysis of Colorado's School Voucher Proposals
Policy Brief
Class-Size Reduction: A Fresh Look at the Data
Legacy Publication
Tuition Tax Credits Can't Be Credited for Helping Poor
Legacy Publication
Vouchers a Costly Path to a Divisive Education
Legacy Publication
Ability Tracking: What Role for the Courts?
Resource Document
School Reform Proposals: The Research Evidence
Policy Brief
Evaluation of the Wisconsin Charter School Program, 2000-2001
Legacy Publication
School Choice Crucible: A Case Study of Boulder Valley
Resource Document
Charter Schools
Policy Brief
Ultimate Education Reform? Make Schools Smaller
Policy Brief
The Arizona Education Tax Credit and Hidden Considerations of Justice
Resource Document
A Study of Boulder Valley School District's Open Enrollment Program
Resource Document
Navigating the Politics of Detracking
Resource Document
Pilot Evaluation of the Wisconsin Charter School Program
Legacy Publication
On the Success of Failure: A Rejoinder to Alexander
Resource Document
An Examination of Sustaining Effects in Descubriendo La Lectura Programs
Resource Document
Smaller Classes–Not Vouchers–Increase Student Achievement
Legacy Publication
Charter Schools: The Smiling Face of Disinvestment
Legacy Publication
Standards, Assessment, and Equality of Educational Opportunity
Resource Document
Constructing Cultural Difference and Educational Achievement in Schools
Resource Document
Escalating Academic Demand in Kindergarten: Counterproductive Policies
Resource Document
Flunking Kindergarten: Escalating Curriculum Leaves Many Behind
Resource Document
What Doesn't Work: Explaining Policies of Retention in Early Grades
Resource Document
Standard Setting Issues and Methods
Resource Document
Technical Issues in Minimum Competency Testing
Resource Document