Publications: Democracy and Education

Demystifying Education Public-Private Partnerships: What Every Policymaker Should Know

Resource Document

Frank Adamson, Anjela Taneja, and Jo Walker

February 27, 2025

The Mythical Great Equalizer School System: Exploring the Potential to Make It Real

Resource Document

Kevin G. Welner

April 10, 2024

Time for a Pause: Without Effective Public Oversight, AI in Schools Will Do More Harm Than Good.

Policy Brief

Ben Williamson, Alex Molnar, and Faith Boninger

March 5, 2024

The Conflict Over Parents’ Rights

Policy Brief

Vivian E. Hamilton

January 16, 2024

Charter Schools: Rending or Mending the Nation

Policy Memo

Henry M. Levin

September 9, 2021

An Agenda for Restoring Civil Rights in K-12 Federal Education Policy

Policy Memo

Janelle T. Scott, Genevieve Siegel-Hawley, Elizabeth DeBray, Erica Frankenberg, and Kathryn McDermott

November 24, 2020

Rethinking “Innovation Schools”: Strengths and Limitations of Autonomy-Based School Improvement Plans in Contexts of Widening Racial Inequality

Policy Brief

Terrenda White and Anna Noble

October 27, 2020

Austerity, Subsistence, or Investment: Will Congress and the President Choose to Bail Out Our Children’s Future?

Policy Memo

Frank Adamson, Allison Brown, and Kevin G. Welner

June 4, 2020

Education Interview of the Month: Christopher Saldaña Interviews Educators and Activists About Educational Equity During the Pandemic

FYI

Christopher Saldaña, Jillian McRae, Ann Dealy, Saa’un Bell, Kyle Serrette, and Keith Catone

April 16, 2020

NEPC Review: Is Public Schooling a Public Good? An Analysis of Schooling Externalities (Cato Institute, May 2018)

NEPC Review

Doris A. Santoro

June 26, 2018

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

FYI

March 1, 2018

How Voucher Advocates Created a Blue-State Loophole to Trump’s Tax Law

Policy Memo

Kevin G. Welner

January 24, 2018

Our Children Deserve Better: A Call to Resist Washington’s Dangerous Vision for U.S. Education

FYI

Education Deans for Justice and Equity

September 6, 2017

NEPC Review: Reimagining Learning: A Big Bet on the Future of American Education (NewSchools Venture Fund)

NEPC Review

Jeffrey W. Snyder

March 7, 2017

Dismantling Public Education: Turning Ideology into Gold

Resource Document

Alex Molnar

March 1, 2017

Declaration of Principles on Public Education, Democracy, and the Role of Federal Government

FYI

Education Deans for Justice and Equity

January 13, 2017

Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking - 2016 Collection

Policy Brief

William J. Mathis

August 23, 2016

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

Policy Brief

Jennifer King Rice

September 15, 2015

Review of Turning Lightning into Electricity

NEPC Review

Mark R. Warren

February 2, 2015

Why School Report Cards Merit a Failing Grade

Policy Brief

Kenneth R. Howe and Kevin Murray

January 26, 2015

Review of The State Education Agency: At the Helm, Not the Oar

NEPC Review

Peter W. Cookson, Jr.

June 17, 2014

Much Ado about Politics (and Much Ignored about Research Evidence)

Policy Memo

Kevin G. Welner

November 6, 2013

Is American Education on a Bad Track?

Resource Document

Kevin G. Welner and Carol C. Burris

August 8, 2013

How Recent Education Reforms Undermine Local School Governance and Democratic Education

Policy Brief

Kenneth R. Howe and David E. Meens

October 16, 2012

NEPC Review: Parent Power: Grass-Roots Activism and K-12 Education Reform (American Enterprise Institute, July 2012)

NEPC Review

Michelle Fine and Stan Karp

September 6, 2012

Missing the Target? The Parent Trigger as a Strategy for Parental Engagement and School Reform

Policy Memo

Christopher Lubienski, Janelle T. Scott, John Rogers, and Kevin G. Welner

September 5, 2012

NEPC Review: The Shaping of the American Mind: The Diverging Influences of the College Degree & Civic Learning on American Beliefs (December 2009)

NEPC Review

Gregory J. Marchant

March 17, 2010

Negotiating Public and Private: Philosophical Frameworks for School Choice

Policy Brief

Terri S. Wilson

March 1, 2008

Dangerous Reading

Resource Document

Michael W. Apple

November 3, 2005