Publications: 2018

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

How School Privatization Opens the Door for Discrimination

Policy Brief

Julie F. Mead and Suzanne E. Eckes

December 6, 2018

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: Everything You Know About State Education Rankings Is Wrong (Reason Foundation, November 2018)

NEPC Review

Bruce D. Baker

November 27, 2018

Education Interview of the Month: Greg Smith Interviews Noliwe Rooks on School Segregation

FYI

Gregory A. Smith and Noliwe Rooks

November 15, 2018

Education Interview of the Month: Greg Smith Interviews Gordon Lafer on Charter Expansion

FYI

Gregory A. Smith and Gordon Lafer

October 18, 2018

NEPC Review: Money for Nothing: The Relationship Between Various Types of School Spending and Academic Outcomes (Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, August 2018)

NEPC Review

William J. Mathis

October 11, 2018

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

NEPC Review

Clive Belfield

October 5, 2018

Organizing and Managing Instruction in US Public School Districts: Considerations for Families, Communities, and States

Policy Brief

Donald J. Peurach and Maxwell Yurkofsky

September 27, 2018

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 Patricia Gándara on Immigration

FYI

Gregory A. Smith and Patricia Gándara

September 18, 2018

NEPC Review: Time to Change Course: Reclaiming the Potential of Texas Charter Schools (ExcelinEd and Texas Public Policy Foundation, June 2018)

NEPC Review

Ed Fuller

September 12, 2018

Reviews Worth Sharing: The Long-Run Effects of Teacher Collective Bargaining

Reviews Worth Sharing

Emma García and John Schmitt

August 23, 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

Reviews Worth Sharing: Focusing on School Safety After Parkland (The Heritage Foundation, March 2018)

Reviews Worth Sharing

Dustin Pappas and Meredith Mountford

July 3, 2018

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

NEPC Review: Hard Work and Soft Skills (American Enterprise Institute, April 2018)

NEPC Review

James Rosenbaum

June 15, 2018

NEPC Review: 2018 Teacher Prep Review (National Council on Teacher Quality, April 2018)

NEPC Review

Marilyn Cochran-Smith, Elizabeth Stringer Keefe, Wen-Chia Chang, and Molly Cummings Carney

June 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

State-Level Assessments and Teacher Evaluation Systems after the Passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act: Some Steps in the Right Direction

Policy Brief

Kevin Close, Audrey Amrein-Beardsley, and Clarin Collins

June 5, 2018

NEPC Review: 2018 State Teacher Policy Best Practices Guide (National Council on Teacher Quality, March 2018)

NEPC Review

Marilyn Cochran-Smith, Elizabeth Stringer Keefe, Wen-Chia Chang, and Molly Cummings Carney

May 24, 2018

Education Interview of the Month: Greg Smith Interviews Michael Barbour and Bryan Mann on Virtual Schools

FYI

Gregory A. Smith, Michael K. Barbour, and Bryan Mann

May 17, 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: It Takes a Community (Bellwether Education Partners, February 2018)

NEPC Review

Adam Winsler

May 8, 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

Education Interview of the Month: Greg Smith Interviews Marilyn Cochran-Smith About Teacher Accountability

FYI

Gregory A. Smith and Marilyn Cochran-Smith

April 17, 2018

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

NEPC Review

Chris Torres and Joanne W. Golann

April 11, 2018

Why We’re Glad that the National Education Policy Center Deleted Its Facebook Account

Resource Document

Alex Molnar and Faith Boninger

April 5, 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: Unlocking Potential: How Political Skill Can Maximize Superintendent Effectiveness (Center on Reinventing Public Education, January 2018)

NEPC Review

William J. Mathis

March 6, 2018

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

FYI

March 1, 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: The Academic and Behavioral Consequences of Discipline Policy Reform: Evidence from Philadelphia (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, December 2017)

NEPC Review

Yolanda Anyon and Kathryn Wiley

February 15, 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: 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

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

Policy Memo

Kevin G. Welner

January 24, 2018

The State of Education Savings Account Programs in the United States

Policy Brief

Oscar Jiménez-Castellanos, William J. Mathis, and Kevin G. Welner

January 23, 2018

NEPC Review: When Degree Programs for Pre-K Teachers Go Online: Challenges and Opportunities (New America Foundation, November 2017)

NEPC Review

Beth Graue and Erica Ramberg

January 18, 2018

Education Interview of the Month: Greg Smith Interviews Linda Molner Kelley and Adam York on Schools of Opportunity

FYI

Gregory A. Smith, Linda Molner Kelley, and Adam York

January 17, 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