Publications: Curriculum and Teaching

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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

Let’s Stop Asking Whether Teachers Are Professionals. Let’s Ask What Kinds of Professionals We Want Teachers to Be

Policy Brief

Emilie Mitescu Reagan and A. Lin Goodwin

March 11, 2025

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

How Discriminatory Censorship Laws Imperil Public Education

Policy Brief

Jonathan Feingold and Joshua Weishart

November 30, 2023

Truths My Teacher Can't Tell Me: The Politics of Today's Curriculum

FYI

Gloria Ladson-Billings

October 13, 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: The Unexamined Rise of Therapeutic Education: How Social-Emotional Learning Extends K-12 Education’s Reach into Students’ Lives and Expands Teachers’ Roles (American Enterprise Institute, October 2021)

NEPC Review

Julia Mahfouz

February 22, 2022

NEPC Review: Representation of Social Groups in U.S. Educational Materials and Why It Matters (New America, December 2021)

NEPC Review

Christine Sleeter

February 8, 2022

NEPC Review: How to Regulate Critical Race Theory in Schools: A Primer and Model Legislation (Manhattan Institute, August 2021)

NEPC Review

Kevin D. Brown

December 14, 2021

Understanding the Attacks on Critical Race Theory

Policy Memo

Francesca López, Alex Molnar, Royel Johnson, Ashley Patterson, LaWanda Ward, and Kevin K. Kumashiro

September 23, 2021

Issues to Consider Before Adopting a Digital Platform or Learning Program

Policy Brief

Faith Boninger, Alex Molnar, and Michael K. Barbour

September 24, 2020

Education Interview of the Month: Greg Smith Interviews Faith Boninger and Alex Molnar About Personalized Learning and Digital Privatization

FYI

Gregory A. Smith, Faith Boninger, and Alex Molnar

May 14, 2019

Personalized Learning and the Digital Privatization of Curriculum and Teaching

Research Brief

Faith Boninger, Alex Molnar, and Christopher Saldaña

April 30, 2019

How Corporate Interests Are Overtaking Well-Intentioned Goals of Personalized Learning

Resource Document

Valerie Strauss, Alex Molnar, and Faith Boninger

April 30, 2019

NEPC Review: Education System Alignment for 21st Century Skills: Focus on Assessment (Brookings Institution, November 2018)

NEPC Review

Lorrie Shepard

April 2, 2019

NEPC Review: The Opportunity Myth (TNTP, September 2018)

NEPC Review

Amanda Datnow

January 24, 2019

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

NEPC Review

Beth C. Rubin

September 25, 2018

Education Interview of the Month: Greg Smith Interviews Alyssa Hadley Dunn on Viral Teacher Resignation Letters

FYI

Gregory A. Smith and Alyssa Hadley Dunn

October 17, 2017

Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking - 2016 Collection

Policy Brief

William J. Mathis

August 23, 2016

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

NEPC Review

Marisa Saunders and Jaime Del Razo

March 18, 2014

Review of Fixing Classroom Observations: How Common Core Will Change the Way We Look at Teaching

NEPC Review

Jennie Whitcomb

January 21, 2014

Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking - 2013 Collection

Policy Brief

William J. Mathis

June 13, 2013

Addressing School Environment and Safety for LGBT Students

Policy Brief

William J. Mathis

May 23, 2013

Policy Reforms and De-professionalization of Teaching

Policy Brief

Rich Milner

February 28, 2013

Teach For America: A Review of the Evidence

Policy Brief

Julian Vasquez Heilig and Su Jin Jez

June 9, 2010

NEPC Review: Teacher Layoffs: Rethinking "Last Hired, First Fired" Policies (National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), February 2010)

NEPC Review

Richard Ingersoll and Lisa Merrill

May 12, 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: The Widget Effect: Our National Failure to Acknowledge and Act on Teacher Differences (TNTP, June 2009)

NEPC Review

Raymond Pecheone and Ruth Chung Wei

August 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

The Intersection of Race, Culture, Language, and Disability: Implications for Urban Education

Resource Document

Janette K. Klingner

January 1, 2009

Fellows’ Education Letters to the President

Policy Brief

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

December 29, 2008

Multiple Pathways: 21st Century High Schools that Prepare All Students for College, Career and Civic Participation

Legislative Brief

Marisa Saunders and Christopher A. Chrisman

December 1, 2008

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

NEPC Review

Carol C. Burris

October 14, 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

Alternative Certification of Teachers

Policy Brief

Gene V Glass

May 12, 2008

Teacher Qualifications and Work Environments Across School Types

Policy Brief

Marisa Cannata

March 1, 2008

Schooling and the Construction of Identity Among Minority Students in Spain and the United States

Resource Document

Janette K. Klingner

January 1, 2008

Educational Innovation and Diversification in School Choice Plans

Policy Brief

Christopher Lubienski

January 1, 2008

'Restoring Value' to the High School Diploma: The Rhetoric and Practice of Higher Standards

Policy Brief

W. Norton Grubb

October 20, 2007

NEPC Review: How Much Are Public School Teachers Paid? (Manhattan Institute, January 2007)

NEPC Review

Lawrence Mishel and Sean P. Corcoran

February 19, 2007

NEPC Review: Whole Language High Jinks: How to Tell When 'Scientifically-Based Reading Instruction' Isn't (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, January 2007)

NEPC Review

Richard Allington

February 14, 2007

The Use of Assessment for Curricular Differentiation

Resource Document

Kevin G. Welner and K. Martinez

January 1, 2007

Discarding the Deficit Model

Resource Document

Janette K. Klingner

January 1, 2007

NEPC Review: Giving Students the Chaff: How to Find and Keep the Teachers We Need (September 2006)

NEPC Review

Ash Vasudeva and Raymond Pecheone

October 25, 2006

The Special Education Referral and Decision-Making Process for English Language Learners: Child Study Team Meetings and Staffing

Resource Document

Janette K. Klingner

May 9, 2006

English Language Learners Who Struggle with Reading: Language Acquisition or Learning Disabilities?

Resource Document

Janette K. Klingner

January 18, 2006

Cultural Considerations with Response to Intervention Models

Resource Document

Janette K. Klingner and P. Edwards

January 1, 2006

Addressing the Disproportionate Representation of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students in Special Education through

Resource Document

Janette K. Klingner

January 1, 2005

The Overrepresentation of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students in Special Education

Resource Document

Kevin G. Welner

January 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

These Youths Deserve Better

Legacy Publication

David C. Berliner

January 1, 2004

The Science of Professional Development

Resource Document

Janette K. Klingner

January 1, 2004

Red-Eared Sliders and Neighborhood Dogs

Resource Document

Margaret Eisenhart and L. Edwards

January 1, 2004

Important Publications in the Field of LD in Light of Imminent Topics

Resource Document

Russell Gersten, Linda K. Elksnin, Daniel Boudah, Janette K. Klingner, and David Scanlon

January 1, 2003

Breaking the Code: Colorado's Defeat of the Anti-Bilingual Education Initiative (Amendment 31)

Resource Document

Kathy Escamilla, Sheila Shannon, Silvana Carlos, and J. García

January 1, 2003

When Should Bilingual Students Be in Special Education?

Resource Document

Janette K. Klingner and Alfredo J. Artiles

January 1, 2003

The Changing Roles and Responsibilities of an LD Specialist

Resource Document

S. Vaughn and Janette K. Klingner

January 1, 2002

The AIMS Test and the Mathematics Actually Used by Arizona Employees

Research Brief

Cheryl A. Edholm

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 Role of Classroom Assessment in Teaching and Learning

Resource Document

Lorrie Shepard

January 1, 2001

Class Size Reduction and Special Education Referrals and Placements

Resource Document

T. Parrish, Edward W. Wiley, and G. W. Bohrnstedt

January 1, 2001

Changing Conceptions of Culture and Ethnographic Methodology: Recent Thematic Shifts and their Implications for Research

Resource Document

Margaret Eisenhart

January 1, 2001

Disabling Discrimination in Our Public Schools: Comprehensive Legal Challenges to Inappropriate and Inadequate Special Education

Resource Document

Daniel J. Losen and Kevin G. Welner

January 1, 2001

Assessing the Writing of Spanish Speaking Students: Issues and Suggestions

Resource Document

Maria Coady and Kathy Escamilla

January 1, 2001

Defusing Environmental Education: An Evaluation of the Critique of the Environmental Education Movement

Policy Brief

Gregory A. Smith

January 1, 2000

The Role of Assessment in a Learning Culture

Resource Document

Lorrie Shepard

January 1, 2000

Boundaries and Selves in the Making of 'Science'

Resource Document

Margaret Eisenhart

January 1, 2000

Sustaining Research-Based Practices in Reading: A Three-Year Follow-Up

Resource Document

M. E. Arguelles, M. T. Hughes, Janette K. Klingner, and S. Vaughn

January 1, 1999

Teaching Reading Comprehension Through Collaborative Strategic Reading Intervention

Resource Document

S. Vaughn and Janette K. Klingner

January 1, 1999

A Collaborative Effort to Enhance Reading and Writing Instruction in Inclusion Classrooms

Resource Document

Janette K. Klingner, S. Vaughn, M. T. Hughes, and J. S. Schumm

January 1, 1998

Collaborative Strategic Reading During Social Studies in Heterogeneous Fourth-Grade Classrooms

Resource Document

J. S. Schumm, S. Vaughn, and Janette K. Klingner

January 1, 1998

Inclusion or Pull-Out: Which Do Students Prefer?

Resource Document

Janette K. Klingner, J. W. Forgan, P. Cohen, S. Vaughn, and J. S. Schumm

January 1, 1998

Outcomes for Students With and Without Learning Disabilities in Inclusive Classrooms

Resource Document

S. Vaughn, J. S. Schumm, B. Elbaum, M. T. Hughes, and Janette K. Klingner

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

Reciprocal Teaching of Reading Comprehension Strategies for Students with Learning Disabilities Who Use English as a Second La

Resource Document

Janette K. Klingner and S. Vaughn

January 1, 1996

Creating the Conditions for Scientific Literacy: A Reconsideration

Resource Document

E. Finkel and Margaret Eisenhart

January 1, 1996

Parents' Thinking About Standardized Tests and Performance

Legacy Publication

C. L. Bliem

January 1, 1995

Students' Views of Instructional Practices: Implications for Inclusion

Resource Document

Janette K. Klingner, S. Vaughn, L. Saumell, and J. S. Schumm

January 1, 1995

The Place of Testing Reform in Educational Reform: A Reply to Cizek

Resource Document

Lorrie Shepard

January 1, 1993

Conceptual Knowledge Falls through the Cracks: Complexities of Learning to Teach Mathematics for Understanding

Resource Document

R. Underhill, Hilda Borko, Margaret Eisenhart, C. Brown, D. Jones, and P. Agard

January 1, 1993

Learning to Teach Hard Mathematics: Do Novice Teachers and Their Instructors Give Up Too Easily?

Resource Document

Hilda Borko, R. Underhill, C. Brown, Margaret Eisenhart, P. Agard, and D. Jones

January 1, 1992

Commentary: What Policymakers Who Mandate Tests Should Know About the New Psychology of Intellectual Ability and Learning

Resource Document

Lorrie Shepard

January 1, 1992

Psychometricians' Beliefs about Learning

Resource Document

Lorrie Shepard

January 1, 1991

Conceptual Frameworks for Research Circa 1991: Ideas from a Cultural Anthropologist; Implications for Mathematics Education Rese

Resource Document

Margaret Eisenhart

January 1, 1991

The Ethnographic Research Tradition and Mathematics Education Research

Resource Document

Margaret Eisenhart

January 1, 1988

The New Push for Excellence: Widening the Schism Between Regular and Special Education

Resource Document

Lorrie Shepard

January 1, 1987

An Evaluation of the Identification of Learning Disabled Students in Colorado

Resource Document

Mary Lee Smith

January 1, 1983

Characteristics of Pupils Identified as Learning Disabled

Resource Document

Mary Lee Smith

January 1, 1983

Specialists' Use of Tests and Clinical Judgment in the Diagnosis of Learning Disabilities

Resource Document

W. A. Davis

January 1, 1983