Publications: School Choice

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: The Enrollment Decline Windfall (EdChoice, February 2025)

NEPC Review

David E. DeMatthews and Jinseok Shin

May 8, 2025

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NEPC Review: The Persistence of Religious Discrimination in Publicly Funded Pre-K Programs (Manhattan Institute, January 2025)

NEPC Review

Joshua Weishart

May 1, 2025

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NEPC Review: Thousands Served: Students with Disabilities in Wisconsin’s Parental Choice Programs (School Choice Wisconsin and Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, January 2025)

NEPC Review

Maria M. Lewis and Julie F. Mead

April 8, 2025

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NEPC Review: Fiscal Effects of School Choice: The Costs and Savings of Private School Choice Programs in America Through FY 2022 (EdChoice, October 2024)

NEPC Review

Mark Weber

February 11, 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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The Fiscal Impacts of Expanded Voucher Programs and Charter-School Growth on Public Schools: Recommendations for Sustaining Adequate and Equitable School Finance Systems

Policy Brief

David S. Knight and David E. DeMatthews

November 21, 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

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NEPC Review: Helping Families Navigate the Changing Education Landscape (Cato Institute, June 2024)

NEPC Review

Huriya Jabbar

September 10, 2024

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Strengthening Oversight of Education Savings Account (ESA) Funding for Private and At-Home Schooling

Policy Brief

Luis A. Huerta and Trevor Baisden

September 5, 2024

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NEPC Review: Did the Emergence of Ohio Charter Schools Help or Harm Students Who Remained in District Schools? (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, March 2024)

NEPC Review

Bryan Mann

June 20, 2024

NEPC Review: K-12 School Choice Calculator (Reason Foundation and EdChoice, January 2024)

NEPC Review

Bruce D. Baker

March 19, 2024

NEPC Review: The Cost-Effectiveness of Wisconsin’s Private School Choice Programs (School Choice Wisconsin, September 2023)

NEPC Review

Stephen Kotok

December 12, 2023

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: Integrating Housing and Education Solutions to Reduce Segregation and Drive School Equity (Urban Institute, August 2023)

NEPC Review

Andrene J. Castro

November 14, 2023

Why What Looked Like Good News for Charter Schools Actually Wasn’t

Resource Document

Valerie Strauss

October 13, 2023

NEPC Review: The 123s of School Choice: What the Research Says About Private School Choice Programs in America, 2023 Edition (EdChoice, June 2023)

NEPC Review

Christopher Lubienski

October 12, 2023

NEPC Review: Think Again: Do Charter Schools Drain Resources From Traditional Public Schools? (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, March 2023)

NEPC Review

Huriya Jabbar

May 19, 2023

NEPC Review: School Choice Is Not Enough: The Impact of Critical Social Justice Ideology in American Education (Manhattan Institute, February 2023)

NEPC Review

Christine Sleeter and David R. Garcia

May 3, 2023

NEPC Review: Public Education Funding Without Boundaries: How to Get K-12 Dollars to Follow Open Enrollment Students (Reason Foundation, January 2023)

NEPC Review

Mark Weber

April 6, 2023

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: 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: The System-Level Effects of Denver’s Portfolio District Strategy: Technical Report (Center for Education Policy Analysis, University of Colorado Denver, December 2022)

NEPC Review

Robert Shand

February 8, 2023

NEPC Review: Empowering Parents with School Choice Reduces Wokeism in Education (Heritage Foundation, November 2022)

NEPC Review

Christine Sleeter and T. Jameson Brewer

January 24, 2023

NEPC Review: For-Profit Charter Schools: An Evaluation of Their Spending and Outcomes (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, September 2022)

NEPC Review

Joshua Cowen

December 2, 2022

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: Some Assembly Required: How a More Flexible Learning Ecosystem Can Better Serve All Kids and Unlock Innovation (Bellwether, August 2022)

NEPC Review

Carrie Sampson

November 8, 2022

NEPC Review: Use of Personalized Learning Platforms in One Pandemic-Era Microschool: A Case Study (Center on Reinventing Public Education, June 2022)

NEPC Review

Bryan Mann

October 18, 2022

NEPC Review: Michigan Student Opportunity Scholarships: Overview and Fiscal Analysis (Mackinac Center, May 2022)

NEPC Review

Christopher Saldaña

July 14, 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: From School Aid to Student Aid: Modernizing K-12 Funding in Michigan (Mackinac Center, March 2022)

NEPC Review

Bruce D. Baker

May 3, 2022

NEPC Review: Fiscal Effects of School Choice: Analyzing the Costs and Savings of Private School Choice Programs in America (EdChoice, November 2021)

NEPC Review

Luis A. Huerta and Steven J. Koutsavlis

March 15, 2022

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

NEPC Review: Accountability and Private-School Choice (Manhattan Institute, October 2021)

NEPC Review

Jack Schneider

November 16, 2021

Charter Schools: Rending or Mending the Nation

Policy Memo

Henry M. Levin

September 9, 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

Estimating a Price Tag for School Vouchers

Policy Brief

Robert Shand and Henry M. Levin

May 25, 2021

NEPC Review: Toward Equitable School Choice (Hoover Institution, November 2020)

NEPC Review

Christopher Lubienski

February 5, 2021

NEPC Review: Religious Charter Schools: Legally Permissible? Constitutionally Required? (Manhattan Institute, December 2020)

NEPC Review

Derek W. Black

January 26, 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: Unleashing Educational Opportunity: The Untapped Potential of Expanded Tax Credit Scholarships in Pennsylvania (Commonwealth Foundation, August 2020)

NEPC Review

Bruce D. Baker

October 22, 2020

Education Interview of the Month: Christopher Saldaña Interviews Diane Ravitch About Privatization

FYI

Christopher Saldaña and Diane Ravitch

June 16, 2020

NEPC Review: Child Safety Accounts: Protecting Our Children Through Parental Freedom (Heartland Institute, November 2019)

NEPC Review

Oscar Jiménez-Castellanos and Gabriella Garriga

March 31, 2020

NEPC Review: Ripple Effect: How Expanding School Choice Programs Can Lead to More College Graduates and a Stronger Economy (Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, January 2020)

NEPC Review

William J. Mathis

March 10, 2020

NEPC Review: School Sector and Satisfaction: Evidence from a Nationally Representative Sample (Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, October 2019)

NEPC Review

Steven V. Miller

January 21, 2020

Education Interview of the Month: Christopher Saldaña Interviews Kate Phillippo About Competitive School Choice in Chicago

FYI

Christopher Saldaña and Kate Phillippo

December 19, 2019

NEPC Review: Homeschooling and Educational Freedom (Cato Institute, September 2019)

NEPC Review

Robert Kunzman

November 7, 2019

NEPC Review: The Case for Educational Pluralism in the U.S. (Manhattan Institute, July 2019)

NEPC Review

Joel Westheimer

October 22, 2019

NEPC Review: The Effects of Means-Tested Private School Choice Programs on College Enrollment and Graduation (Urban Institute, July 2019)

NEPC Review

T. Jameson Brewer

October 17, 2019

NEPC Review: The 123s of School Choice: What the Research Says About Private School Choice: 2019 Edition (EdChoice, April 2019)

NEPC Review

T. Jameson Brewer

June 11, 2019

NEPC Review: 12 Myths and Realities about Private Educational Choice Programs (Institute for Justice, August 2017)

NEPC Review

Christopher Lubienski

March 8, 2019

Education Interview of the Month: Greg Smith Interviews Rick Mintrop and Miguel Órdenes on School Privatization in Chile

FYI

Gregory A. Smith, Rick Mintrop, and Miguel Órdenes

December 18, 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

What Might Happen If School Vouchers and Privatization of Schools Were to Become Universal in the U.S.: Learning from a National Test Case—Chile

Policy Brief

Ernesto Treviño, Rick Mintrop, Cristóbal Villalobos, and Miguel Órdenes

June 7, 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

Education Interview of the Month: Greg Smith Interviews Oscar Jimenez-Castellanos on Education Savings Accounts

FYI

Gregory A. Smith and Oscar Jiménez-Castellanos

February 14, 2018

NEPC Review: Student-Centered State Funding: A How-to Guide for State Policymakers (The Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd), November 2017)

NEPC Review

Bruce D. Baker

January 9, 2018

NEPC Review: Why Indiana Parents Choose: A Cross-Sector Survey of Parents' Views in a Robust School Choice Environment (EdChoice, September 2017)

NEPC Review

Jeanne M. Powers

November 21, 2017

Assessing the Fiscal Impact of Wisconsin's Statewide Voucher Program

Policy Memo

Ellie Bruecker

October 5, 2017

NEPC Review: The Tax-Credit Scholarship Audit: Do Publicly Funded Private School Choice Programs Save Money? (EdChoice, October 2016)

NEPC Review

Luis A. Huerta and Steven J. Koutsavlis

August 24, 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: Renewing Our Cities (EdChoice, March 2017)

NEPC Review

Jennifer Jellison Holme and Emily Germain

June 20, 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

NEPC Review: Differences by Design? Student Composition in Charter Schools with Different Academic Models (American Enterprise Institute, February 2017)

NEPC Review

T. Jameson Brewer and Christopher Lubienski

April 13, 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

What We Can Learn from the Massachusetts Ballot Question Campaign on Charter School Expansion

Policy Memo

Lawrence Blum

March 14, 2017

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

NEPC Review

Erica Frankenberg

December 19, 2016

Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking - 2016 Collection

Policy Brief

William J. Mathis

August 23, 2016

NEPC Review: A Win-Win Solution: The Empirical Evidence on School Choice (Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, May 2016)

NEPC Review

Christopher Lubienski

June 30, 2016

NEPC Review: The School Choice Voucher: A "Get Out of Jail" Card? (University of Arkansas Department of Education Reform, March 2016)

NEPC Review

Clive Belfield

April 6, 2016

NEPC Review: The Integration Anomaly: Comparing the Effects of K-12 Education Delivery Models on Segregation in Schools (Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, October 2015)

NEPC Review

Genevieve Siegel-Hawley and Erica Frankenberg

January 5, 2016

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

Resource Document

Alex Molnar

April 9, 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

Review of Turning Lightning into Electricity

NEPC Review

Mark R. Warren

February 2, 2015

Review of Better Data, Better Decisions and A Crisis We Can Solve

NEPC Review

Erin McNamara Horvat and David Everington Baugh

January 5, 2015

Review of Federal School Finance Reform

NEPC Review

Gail L. Sunderman

November 6, 2014

Review of Expanding the Education Universe

NEPC Review

Patricia Burch, Jahni Smith, and Mary Stewart

June 19, 2014

Seeing Past the “Colorblind” Myth of Education Policy

Policy Brief

Amy Stuart Wells

March 20, 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

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

NEPC Review: Why the Gap? Special Education and New York City Charter Schools (Center on Reinventing Public Education and Manhattan Institute, September 2013)

NEPC Review

Julie F. Mead

November 7, 2013

Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking - 2013 Collection

Policy Brief

William J. Mathis

June 13, 2013

Review of Report Card on American Education

NEPC Review

Christopher Lubienski and T. Jameson Brewer

May 9, 2013

NEPC Review: The Education Choice and Competition Index: Background and Results 2012 (December 2012)

NEPC Review

David R. Garcia

January 29, 2013

NEPC Review: The Way of the Future: Education Savings Accounts for Every American Family (September 2012)

NEPC Review

Charisse Gulosino and Jonah Liebert

October 23, 2012

NEPC Review: The Effects of School Vouchers on College Enrollment: Experimental Evidence from New York City (August 2012)

NEPC Review

Sara Goldrick-Rab

September 13, 2012

Review of Three Reports from the Comprehensive Longitudinal Evaluation of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program

NEPC Review

Casey Cobb

April 19, 2012

Study's Results Are Flawed and Inconsequential

Resource Document

Kevin G. Welner and Alex Molnar

March 3, 2012

How Many Decades Before 'Reform' Becomes 'Status Quo'?

Resource Document

Kevin G. Welner

December 1, 2011

NEPC Review: Chartering and Choice as an Achievement Gap-Closing Reform (October 2011)

NEPC Review

David R. Garcia

November 10, 2011

Online K-12 Schooling in the U.S.

Legislative Brief

Gene V Glass, Kevin G. Welner, and Justin Bathon

October 25, 2011

NEPC Review: Charting New Territory: Tapping Charter Schools to Turn Around the Nation's Dropout Factories (Center for American Progress, June 2011)

NEPC Review

Tina Trujillo

September 13, 2011

NEPC Review: The Comprehensive Longitudinal Evaluation of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program: Summary of Fourth Year Reports (March 2011)

NEPC Review

Clive Belfield

June 2, 2011

NEPC Review: Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best (February 2011)

NEPC Review

David R. Garcia

April 20, 2011

How to Calculate the Costs or Savings of Tax Credit Voucher Policies

Policy Memo

Kevin G. Welner

March 17, 2011

Review of The Lottery

NEPC Review

William Tate

January 24, 2011

Review of Waiting for Superman

NEPC Review

Elizabeth Dutro

January 24, 2011

NEPC Review: Charter Schools: A Report on Rethinking the Federal Role in Education (December 2010)

NEPC Review

Gary Miron

January 20, 2011

NEPC Review: An Analysis of Arizona Individual Income Tax-Credit Scholarship Recipients' Family Income (October 2010)

NEPC Review

Casey Cobb

November 18, 2010

NEPC Review: Fostering Innovation and Excellence (May 2010)

NEPC Review

Clive Belfield

October 5, 2010

Equal or Fair? A Study of Revenues and Expenditures in American Charter Schools

Research Brief

Gary Miron and Jessica Urschel

June 29, 2010

NEPC Review: Charter School Autonomy: A Half-Broken Promise (Thomas B. Fordham Institute and Public Impact, April 2010)

NEPC Review

Charisse Gulosino

May 26, 2010

NEPC Review: They Spend WHAT? The Real Cost of Public Schools (March 2010)

NEPC Review

Vaughn Altemus

May 5, 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: Connecticut's Charter School Law and Race to the Top (ConnCAN, February 2010)

NEPC Review

Robert Bifulco

March 10, 2010

NEPC Review: Expanding Choice in Elementary and Secondary Education: A Report on Rethinking the Federal Role in Education (February 2010)

NEPC Review

Janelle T. Scott

March 3, 2010

Schools Without Diversity: Education Management Organizations, Charter Schools, and the Demographic Stratification...

Research Brief

Gary Miron, Jessica Urschel, William J. Mathis, and Elana Tornquist

February 5, 2010

NEPC Review: How School Choice Can Create Jobs for South Carolina (December 2009)

NEPC Review

Joydeep Roy

January 14, 2010

Reviews Worth Sharing: Leaders and Laggards: A State-by-State Report Card on Educational Innovation (November 2009)

Reviews Worth Sharing

Bob Williams

December 16, 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

Private Schooling in the U.S.: Expenditures, Supply, and Policy Implications

Research Brief

Bruce D. Baker

August 18, 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: The Fiscal Impact of Tax-Credit Scholarships in Montana (February 2009)

NEPC Review

Luis A. Huerta

June 22, 2009

The Neovoucher: A Kissing Cousin in Disguise

Resource Document

Kevin G. Welner

June 1, 2009

NEPC Review: The MPCP Longitudinal Educational Growth Study Second Year Report (March 2009)

NEPC Review

Casey Cobb

May 28, 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: Evaluation of the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program: Impacts After Three Years (March 2009)

NEPC Review

Martin Carnoy

May 20, 2009

NEPC Review: The Effect of Milwaukee’s Parental Choice Program on Student Achievement in Milwaukee Public Schools (March 2009)

NEPC Review

Gregory Camilli

May 18, 2009

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

NEPC Review

Robert Bifulco

May 5, 2009

NEPC Review: The Fiscal Impact of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program: 2009 Update (April 2009)

NEPC Review

Clive Belfield

April 29, 2009

NEPC Review: A Win-Win Solution: The Empirical Evidence on How Vouchers Affect Public Schools (February 2009)

NEPC Review

Christopher Lubienski

April 27, 2009

The Realities of K-12 Virtual Education

Policy Brief

Gene V Glass

April 20, 2009

NEPC Review: When Private Schools Take Public Dollars: What’s the Place of Accountability in School Voucher Programs? (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, March 2009)

NEPC Review

Ernest R. House

April 15, 2009

NEPC Review: The High Cost of High School Dropouts in Ohio (February 2009)

NEPC Review

Sherman Dorn

March 4, 2009

NEPC Review: "Plotting School Choice" and "In Need of Improvement" (November 2008)

NEPC Review

Meredith P. Richards and Jennifer Jellison Holme

January 27, 2009

Fellows’ Education Letters to the President

Policy Brief

Peter W. Cookson, Jr. and Kevin G. Welner

December 29, 2008

Legislature's Vouchers Report is Based on Smoke and Mirrors

Resource Document

Kevin G. Welner

December 24, 2008

NEPC Review: Public Charter Schools: A Great Value for Ohio’s Public Education System (November 2008)

NEPC Review

Gary Miron

December 10, 2008

NEPC Review: Reports on 10 state public opinion surveys on K-12 school choice (October 2008)

NEPC Review

Jon Lorence and Anthony Gary Dworkin

December 2, 2008

What Do We Know About the Outcomes of KIPP Schools?

Policy Brief

Jeffrey R. Henig

November 10, 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

Under the Voucher Radar

Resource Document

Kevin G. Welner

September 3, 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

NEPC Review: Choice and Education across the States (April 2008)

NEPC Review

Wendy C. Chi

April 29, 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

How Legislation and Litigation Shape School Choice

Policy Brief

Julie F. Mead

March 1, 2008

The Impact of Advocacy Funding on the School Choice Debate

Policy Brief

Wendy C. Chi

March 1, 2008

School Choice and Accountability

Policy Brief

Casey Cobb and Gregg Garn

March 1, 2008

The Impact of School Choice Reforms on Student Achievement

Policy Brief

Gary Miron, Stephanie Evergreen, and Jessica Urschel

March 1, 2008

Negotiating Public and Private: Philosophical Frameworks for School Choice

Policy Brief

Terri S. Wilson

March 1, 2008

Funding Formulas, School Choice, and Inherent Incentives

Policy Brief

Clive Belfield

March 1, 2008

Teacher Qualifications and Work Environments Across School Types

Policy Brief

Marisa Cannata

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 Competitive Effect of School Choice Policies on Performance in Traditional Public Schools

Policy Brief

David Arsen and Yongmei Ni

March 1, 2008

The Privatization Infatuation

Legacy Publication

Kevin G. Welner and Alex Molnar

February 20, 2008

NEPC Review: Feeling the Florida Heat? How Low-Performing Schools Respond to Voucher and Accountability Pressure (Urban Institute, November 2007)

NEPC Review

Damian W. Betebenner

January 15, 2008

NEPC Review: The High Cost of Failing to Reform Public Education in Missouri (March 2006)

NEPC Review

Sherman Dorn

January 9, 2008

Who Chooses Schools, and Why?

Policy Brief

Natalie Lacireno-Paquet and Charleen Brantley

January 7, 2008

Charter Ranking Roulette: An Analysis of Reports That Grade States’ Charter School Laws

Resource Document

Wendy C. Chi and Kevin G. Welner

January 1, 2008

Educational Innovation and Diversification in School Choice Plans

Policy Brief

Christopher Lubienski

January 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: The ABC's of School Choice (September 2007)

NEPC Review

Christopher Lubienski

September 24, 2007

NEPC Review: School Choice by the Numbers: The Fiscal Effect of School Choice Programs 1990-2006 (May 2007)

NEPC Review

Bruce D. Baker

May 24, 2007

NEPC Review: Report Card on American Education (November 2006)

NEPC Review

Gene V Glass

January 8, 2007

Evaluating the Impact of Charter Schools on Student Achievement: A Longitudinal Look at the Great Lakes States

Research Brief

Gary Miron, Chris Coryn, and Dawn Mackety

January 1, 2007

Teacher Attrition in Charter Schools

Policy Brief

Brooks Applegate and Gary Miron

January 1, 2007

NEPC Review: Segregation Levels in Cleveland Public Schools and the Cleveland Voucher Program (August 2006)

NEPC Review

Gary W. Ritter

October 5, 2006

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

NEPC Review

Christopher Lubienski and Sarah Lubienski

August 30, 2006

NEPC Review: The Financial Impact of Ohio's Charter Schools (July 2006)

NEPC Review

Gene V Glass

August 1, 2006

NEPC Review: Playing to Type? Mapping the Charter School Landscape (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, May 2006)

NEPC Review

Gary Miron

May 11, 2006

NEPC Review: Trends in Charter School Authorizing (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, May 2006)

NEPC Review

Ernest R. House

May 10, 2006

NEPC Review: Spreading Freedom and Saving Money: The Fiscal Impact of the D.C. Voucher Program (January 2006)

NEPC Review

Christopher Lubienski

February 20, 2006

Deliberative Democratic Evaluation: Successes and Limitations of an Evaluation of School Choice

Resource Document

Kenneth R. Howe

January 1, 2005

On School Choice and Test-Based Accountability

Resource Document

Damian W. Betebenner, Kenneth R. Howe, and Samara S. Foster

January 1, 2005

Charter Schools' Performance and Accountability: A Disconnect

Policy Brief

Gerald W. Bracey

January 1, 2005

Data Point to Failure

Legacy Publication

Gerald W. Bracey

January 1, 2005

An Assessment of Colorado's Charter Schools: Implications for Policy

Policy Brief

Kenneth R. Howe and Samara S. Foster

January 1, 2005

Colorado Charter School Authorization and Funding Reform: An Analysis of HB 04-1141

Policy Brief

B. Bartels and Kevin G. Welner

January 1, 2004

The K12 Virtual Primary School History Curriculum: A Participant's-eye View

Policy Brief

Susan Ohanian

January 1, 2004

City-wide Systems of Charter Schools: Proceed With Caution

Policy Brief

Gerald W. Bracey

January 1, 2004

Data on Charters Lacking

Legacy Publication

Alex Molnar

January 1, 2004

The AFT Charter School Study: Not News

Legacy Publication

Gerald W. Bracey

January 1, 2004

An Analysis of Colorado's School Voucher Proposals

Policy Brief

Kenneth R. Howe and Kevin G. Welner

January 1, 2003

Education Tax Credits: No Net Benefit to Arizona's Impoverished Students

Policy Brief

Kevin G. Welner

January 1, 2003

An Examination of Colorado's Tuition Tax Credit Proposal

Policy Brief

Kevin G. Welner

January 1, 2003

Limitations of the Market Model

Legacy Publication

Peter W. Cookson, Jr.

August 7, 2002

Tuition Tax Credits Can't Be Credited for Helping Poor

Legacy Publication

Alex Molnar and Glen Wilson

January 1, 2002

Vouchers a Costly Path to a Divisive Education

Legacy Publication

David C. Berliner

January 1, 2002

School Choice and the Pressure to Perform: Déjà Vu for Children with Disabilities?

Resource Document

Kenneth R. Howe and Kevin G. Welner

January 1, 2002

The Equity Impact of Arizona's Education Tax Credit Program: A Review of the First Three Years (1998-2000)

Research Brief

Glen Wilson

January 1, 2002

Evaluation of the Wisconsin Charter School Program, 2000-2001

Legacy Publication

Alex Molnar

January 1, 2001

School Choice Crucible: A Case Study of Boulder Valley

Resource Document

Damian W. Betebenner, Margaret Eisenhart, and Kenneth R. Howe

January 1, 2001

Milwaukee Parental Choice Program

Resource Document

February 1, 2000

Charter Schools

Policy Brief

Gerald W. Bracey

January 1, 2000

Small Public Schools: Returning Education to Families and Communities

Policy Brief

Gregory A. Smith

January 1, 2000

Taxing the Establishment Clause: The Revolutionary Decision of the Arizona Supreme Court in Kotterman v. Killian

Resource Document

Kevin G. Welner

January 1, 2000

The Arizona Education Tax Credit and Hidden Considerations of Justice

Resource Document

Michele S. Moses

January 1, 2000

A Study of Boulder Valley School District's Open Enrollment Program

Resource Document

Kenneth R. Howe

January 1, 2000

School Chartering Processes: Academic Accountability Issues

Policy Brief

Alex Molnar

January 1, 1999

Pilot Evaluation of the Wisconsin Charter School Program

Legacy Publication

January 1, 1999

Contextualizing Homeschooling Data: A Response to Rudner

Resource Document

Kevin G. Welner and K. M. Welner

January 1, 1999

Charter Schools: The Smiling Face of Disinvestment

Legacy Publication

Alex Molnar

January 1, 1996