Designing a Healthy and Healing Community School System in Michigan
Resource Document
NEPC Archive: All Publications
All Publications
NEPC Review: The Enrollment Decline Windfall (EdChoice, February 2025)
NEPC Review
May 8, 2025
The Mounting Trouble with Education Savings Accounts
Policy Brief
NEPC Review: School Segregation on School Report Cards: Who Are We Grading Anyway? (Urban Institute, September 2024)
NEPC Review
December 10, 2024
NEPC Review: Learning Systems: Shaping the Role of Artificial Intelligence in Education (Bellwether, September 2024)
NEPC Review
November 27, 2024
NEPC Review: Helping Families Navigate the Changing Education Landscape (Cato Institute, June 2024)
NEPC Review
September 10, 2024
What Would Religious Charter Schools Mean for Public Education?
Resource Document
NEPC Review: The Reality of Switchers (EdChoice, March 2024)
NEPC Review
May 3, 2024
Pursuing an "Every Child Thrives" Public School System in North Carolina
Resource Document
NEPC Review: K-12 School Choice Calculator (Reason Foundation and EdChoice, January 2024)
NEPC Review
March 19, 2024
The Conflict Over Parents’ Rights
Policy Brief
Why What Looked Like Good News for Charter Schools Actually Wasn’t
Resource Document
NEPC Review: Think Again: Is Education Funding in America Still Unequal? (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, July 2023)
NEPC Review
September 5, 2023
Virtual Schools in the U.S. 2023
Research Brief
Educational Accountability 3.0: Beyond ESSA
Resource Document
NEPC Review: The Economic Cost of the Pandemic: State by State (Hoover Institution, January 2023)
NEPC Review
March 7, 2023
NEPC Review: Empowering Parents with School Choice Reduces Wokeism in Education (Heritage Foundation, November 2022)
NEPC Review
January 24, 2023
Don’t Go ‘Along’ With Corporate Schemes to Gather up Student Data
Resource Document
Carson v. Makin Amicus Brief
Resource Document
NEPC Review: Accountability and Private-School Choice (Manhattan Institute, October 2021)
NEPC Review
November 16, 2021
Charter Schools: Rending or Mending the Nation
Policy Memo
Estimating a Price Tag for School Vouchers
Policy Brief
Virtual Schools in the U.S. 2021
Research Brief
New Report Provides Reality Check on Virtual Schools
Resource Document
NEPC Review: The Drawbacks of Universal Pre-K: A Review of the Evidence (Manhattan Institute, February 2021)
NEPC Review
April 20, 2021
NEPC Review: Harnessing Micro-Credentials for Teacher Growth (New America, January 2021)
NEPC Review
April 8, 2021
NEPC Review: Capitalism in the 1619 Project (The Heritage Foundation, January 2021)
NEPC Review
March 23, 2021
NEPC Review: School Accountability--Past, Present, and Future (Hoover Institution, November 2020)
NEPC Review
February 10, 2021
NEPC Review: Toward Equitable School Choice (Hoover Institution, November 2020)
NEPC Review
February 5, 2021
NEPC Review: The Third Way: A Guide to Implementing Innovation Schools (Progressive Policy Institute, October 2020)
NEPC Review
January 21, 2021
The Price of Opportunity
Resource Document
Rethinking Class Size
Resource Document
NEPC Review: Student Assessment During COVID-19 (Center for American Progress, September 2020)
NEPC Review
October 30, 2020
Making Next Year Count: Equity in School Accountability (Bellwether Education Partners, Summer 2020)
NEPC Review
October 15, 2020
The Commercial Transformation of America’s Schools
Resource Document
NEPC Review: Special Education and Distance Learning: Supporting Students through the Pandemic (ExcelinEd, June 2020)
NEPC Review
September 17, 2020
New Concerns Raised About a Well-Known Digital Learning Platform
Resource Document
NEPC Review: Are Charter Schools Safer than District-Run Schools? (Reason Foundation, April 2020)
NEPC Review
June 9, 2020
Community Research Collaboratives
Policy Memo
NEPC Review: Homeschooling and Educational Freedom (Cato Institute, September 2019)
NEPC Review
November 7, 2019
NEPC Review: The Case for Educational Pluralism in the U.S. (Manhattan Institute, July 2019)
NEPC Review
October 22, 2019
States’ Intervention in School Districts’ Finances
Research Brief
Virtual Schools in the U.S. 2019
Research Brief
NEPC Review: The Opportunity Myth (TNTP, September 2018)
NEPC Review
January 24, 2019
NEPC Review: Our Next Assignment: Where Americans Stand on Public K-12 Education (Public Agenda , November 2018)
NEPC Review
January 15, 2019
NEPC Review: Everything You Know About State Education Rankings Is Wrong (Reason Foundation, November 2018)
NEPC Review
November 27, 2018
NEPC Review: Systems for Success: Thinking Beyond Access to AP (The Education Trust, July 2017)
NEPC Review
September 25, 2018
Reviews Worth Sharing: The Long-Run Effects of Teacher Collective Bargaining
Reviews Worth Sharing
August 23, 2018
Reviews Worth Sharing: An Impact Analysis of North Carolina's Opportunity Scholarship Program on Student Achievement (June 2018)
Reviews Worth Sharing
July 12, 2018
Reviews Worth Sharing: Focusing on School Safety After Parkland (The Heritage Foundation, March 2018)
Reviews Worth Sharing
July 3, 2018
NEPC Review: Hard Work and Soft Skills (American Enterprise Institute, April 2018)
NEPC Review
June 15, 2018
NEPC Review: 2018 Teacher Prep Review (National Council on Teacher Quality, April 2018)
NEPC Review
June 12, 2018
NEPC Review: It Takes a Community (Bellwether Education Partners, February 2018)
NEPC Review
May 8, 2018
NEPC Review: Do Impacts on Test Scores Even Matter? (American Enterprise Institute, March 2018)
NEPC Review
May 3, 2018
NEPC Review: Charter Schools and the Achievement Gap (Brookings Institution, February 2018)
NEPC Review
April 11, 2018
NEPC Review: Balancing Act: Schools, Neighborhoods, and Racial Imbalance (Brookings Institution, November 2017)
NEPC Review
February 8, 2018
NEPC Review: School District Reform in Newark (National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2017)
NEPC Review
December 14, 2017
NEPC Review: Tackling Gaps in Access to Strong Teachers: What State Leaders Can Do (The Education Trust, October 2017)
NEPC Review
November 28, 2017
NEPC Review: Charter Management Organizations 2017 (Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO), June 2017)
NEPC Review
September 7, 2017
NEPC Review: Renewing Our Cities (EdChoice, March 2017)
NEPC Review
June 20, 2017
NEPC Review: Gender Identity Policies in Schools (Heritage Foundation, March 2017)
NEPC Review
May 2, 2017
Virtual Schools in the U.S. 2017
Research Brief
Review of Within Our Grasp: Achieving Higher Admissions Standards in Teacher Prep
NEPC Review
March 23, 2017
Dismantling Public Education: Turning Ideology into Gold
Resource Document
NEPC Review: For Good Measure? Teacher Evaluation Policy in the ESSA Era (Bellwether Education Partners, December 2016)
NEPC Review
February 22, 2017
NEPC Review: Segregation, Race, and Charter Schools: What Do We Know? (Brookings Institution, October 2016)
NEPC Review
December 19, 2016
Lessons from NCLB for the Every Student Succeeds Act
Policy Brief
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
Learning to be Watched: Surveillance Culture at School
Research Brief
Review of 2016 Brown Center Report on American Education Part II: Tracking and Advanced Placement
NEPC Review
April 26, 2016
MPS School Board Should Reject Proposal to Increase Class Size
Resource Document
Lifting All Children Up
Policy Memo
How Companies Learn What Children Secretly Want
Resource Document
NEPC Review: SchoolGrades.org (Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, September 2015)
NEPC Review
March 10, 2016
Review of Special Education and English Language Learner Students in Boston Charter Schools
NEPC Review
February 17, 2016
NEPC Review: Continued Progress: Promising Evidence on Personalized Learning (RAND Corporation, November 2015)
NEPC Review
January 26, 2016
Review of The Effects of Test-Based Retention on Student Outcomes Over Time
NEPC Review
December 3, 2015
NEPC Review: Do We Already Have Universal Preschool? (Brookings Institution, September 2015)
NEPC Review
November 12, 2015
Divining the Meaning of the Test Scores
Resource Document
NEPC Review: The Mirage: Confronting the Hard Truth About Our Quest for Teacher Development (TNTP, August 2015)
NEPC Review
September 30, 2015
How to Create and Maintain Civil Society Space
Policy Memo
NEPC Review: Measuring Diversity in Charter School Offerings (American Enterprise Institute, July 2015)
NEPC Review
September 1, 2015
Silver Linings Casebook: How Vergara’s Backers May Lose by Winning
Resource Document
NEPC Review: Measuring and Understanding Education Advocacy (Brookings Institution, March 2015)
NEPC Review
April 16, 2015
On the Block: Student Data and Privacy in the Digital Age
Research Brief
State Sen. Alberta Darling's Recovery District Idea is Designed to Fail
Resource Document
Review of The Texas Economy and School Choice
NEPC Review
February 17, 2015
Review of Turning Lightning into Electricity
NEPC Review
February 2, 2015
Why School Report Cards Merit a Failing Grade
Policy Brief
NEPC Review: Proposed 2015 Federal Teacher Preparation Regulations (U.S. Department of Education, December 2014)
NEPC Review
January 12, 2015
Review of Better Data, Better Decisions and A Crisis We Can Solve
NEPC Review
January 5, 2015
Review of Federal School Finance Reform
NEPC Review
November 6, 2014
Review of The Efficiency Index
NEPC Review
September 23, 2014
Report of the Special Rapporteur in the Field of Cultural Rights
Resource Document
Review of Seeds of Achievement
NEPC Review
September 16, 2014
Review of Expanding the Education Universe
NEPC Review
June 19, 2014
Review of The State Education Agency: At the Helm, Not the Oar
NEPC Review
June 17, 2014
Review of Two Alternative Teacher Preparation Proposals
NEPC Review
May 29, 2014
Review of The Effect of Co-locations on Student Achievement in NYC Public Schools
NEPC Review
April 15, 2014
Review of Measuring the Impacts of Teachers
NEPC Review
April 10, 2014
Review of The Economic Benefits of New York City's Public School Reforms, 2002-2013
NEPC Review
March 31, 2014
The Lost Opportunity of the Common Core State Standards
Resource Document
Review of A New Frontier: Utilizing Charter Schooling to Strengthen Rural Education
NEPC Review
March 13, 2014
Schoolhouse Commercialism Leaves Policymakers Behind
Research Brief
Review of A Legal Lever for Enhancing Productivity
NEPC Review
February 27, 2014
Review of Should Charter Schools Pay Rent?
NEPC Review
February 20, 2014
Does Class Size Matter?
Policy Brief
Review of Transfer Incentives for High-Performing Teachers
NEPC Review
January 28, 2014
Review of Fixing Classroom Observations: How Common Core Will Change the Way We Look at Teaching
NEPC Review
January 21, 2014
Teach for America: A Return to the Evidence
Policy Brief
Review of An Opportunity Culture for All: Making Teaching a Highly Paid, High-Impact Profession
NEPC Review
December 12, 2013
NEPC Review: Understanding Illinois’ Broken Education Funding System: A Primer (Illinois Policy Center, October 2013)
NEPC Review
November 21, 2013
Review of School Choice and School Performance in the New York City Public Schools
NEPC Review
November 19, 2013
Data-Driven Improvement and Accountability
Legislative Brief
Review of Two Presentations on the Portfolio School Model
NEPC Review
October 8, 2013
New Infographic: Welcome to CharterLand!
Resource Document
Review of The Lessons of No Child Left Behind
NEPC Review
August 27, 2013
Is American Education on a Bad Track?
Resource Document
Texas Must Avoid a Return to the Vocational Track
Resource Document
NEPC Review: Weighted School Funding for California (Reason Foundation)
NEPC Review
June 18, 2013
Review of Middle Class or Middle of the Pack
NEPC Review
June 4, 2013
The Dirty Dozen: How Charter Schools Influence Student Enrollment
Resource Document
Review of Report Card on American Education
NEPC Review
May 9, 2013
Review of Mayoral Governance and Student Achievement
NEPC Review
April 23, 2013
Review of Evaluation of Teach for America in Texas Schools
NEPC Review
April 9, 2013
Review of Does Sorting Students Improve Test Scores?
NEPC Review
April 2, 2013
Charter Schools Possess No Magic Formula: Opposing View
Resource Document
What Does It Take to Scale Up Innovations?
Policy Brief
Review of Two Articles on Principal Effects
NEPC Review
March 5, 2013
Review of State Policy Report Card
NEPC Review
February 20, 2013
NEPC Review: Charter School Performance in Michigan (January 2013)
NEPC Review
February 12, 2013
NEPC Review: Have We Identified Effective Teachers? (Gates Foundation, January 2013)
NEPC Review
January 31, 2013
NEPC Review: The Education Choice and Competition Index: Background and Results 2012 (December 2012)
NEPC Review
January 29, 2013
Review of Failure Is Not an Option
NEPC Review
January 15, 2013
Review of New York State Special Education Enrollment Analysis
NEPC Review
December 6, 2012
Review of The School Staffing Surge
NEPC Review
December 4, 2012
Review of Asking Students About Teaching
NEPC Review
November 15, 2012
NEPC Review: The Way of the Future: Education Savings Accounts for Every American Family (September 2012)
NEPC Review
October 23, 2012
NEPC Review: The Effects of School Vouchers on College Enrollment: Experimental Evidence from New York City (August 2012)
NEPC Review
September 13, 2012
NEPC Review: Parent Power: Grass-Roots Activism and K-12 Education Reform (American Enterprise Institute, July 2012)
NEPC Review
September 6, 2012
Reviews Worth Sharing: The Irreplaceables: Understanding the Real Retention Crisis in America's Urban Schools (TNTP, July 2012)
Reviews Worth Sharing
July 31, 2012
Understanding and Improving Full-Time Virtual Schools
Research Brief
NEPC Review: Teachers in the Age of Digital Instruction (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, November 2011)
NEPC Review
April 3, 2012
Review of Our Immense Achievement Gap
NEPC Review
March 29, 2012
Teacher Job Satisfaction Plummets — Survey
Resource Document
NEPC Review: The Costs of Online Learning (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, January 2012)
NEPC Review
March 6, 2012
Study's Results Are Flawed and Inconsequential
Resource Document
Privatization, Politics, and Policymaking in Public Education
Resource Document
NEPC Review: On Her Majesty’s School Inspection Service (January 2012)
NEPC Review
February 28, 2012
NEPC Review: The Long-Term Impacts of Teachers: Teacher Value-Added and Student Outcomes in Adulthood (January 2012)
NEPC Review
February 16, 2012
NEPC Review: What’s Trust Got to Do With It? (Public Agenda, December 2011)
NEPC Review
February 7, 2012
NEPC Review: Assessing the Compensation of Public-School Teachers (Heritage Foundation, November 2011)
NEPC Review
January 31, 2012
Review of Charter-School Management Organizations: Diverse Strategies and Diverse Student Impacts
NEPC Review
January 19, 2012
Creating Teacher Incentives for School Excellence and Equity
Legislative Brief
Quality in Student Teaching: Flawed Research Leads to Unsound Recommendations
Reviews Worth Sharing
January 10, 2012
How Many Decades Before 'Reform' Becomes 'Status Quo'?
Resource Document
Review of Organizing Schools to Improve Student Achievement
NEPC Review
November 29, 2011
Reviews Worth Sharing: Myths and Facts about Value-Added Analysis (TNTP, November 2011)
Reviews Worth Sharing
November 11, 2011
NEPC Review: Chartering and Choice as an Achievement Gap-Closing Reform (October 2011)
NEPC Review
November 10, 2011
The Educational Cost of Schoolhouse Commercialism
Research Brief
Online K-12 Schooling in the U.S.
Legislative Brief
NEPC Review: Do High Flyers Maintain Their Altitude? (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, September 2011)
NEPC Review
October 13, 2011
Discipline Policies, Successful Schools, and Racial Justice
Legislative Brief
NEPC Review: Incomplete: How Middle Class Schools Aren't Making the Grade (September 2011)
NEPC Review
September 22, 2011
Why Comparing NAEP Poverty Achievement Gaps Across States Doesn’t Work
Reviews Worth Sharing
September 13, 2011
NEPC Review: Florida Formula for Student Achievement: Lessons for the Nation (ExcelinEd, June 2011)
NEPC Review
June 30, 2011
NEPC Review: What Research Says and What It Means for State Policy (May 2011)
NEPC Review
June 16, 2011
NEPC Review: Passing Muster: Evaluating Teacher Evaluation Systems (April 2011)
NEPC Review
May 18, 2011
Review of Yearning to Break Free: Ohio Superintendents Speak Out
NEPC Review
May 3, 2011
NEPC Review: Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector's Best (February 2011)
NEPC Review
April 20, 2011
NEPC Review: Spend Smart: Fix Our Broken School Funding (ConnCAN, March 2011)
NEPC Review
April 14, 2011
NEPC Review: "Cross-Country Evidence on Teacher Performance" and "Merit Pay International" (February 2011)
NEPC Review
March 31, 2011
NEPC Review: District Awards for Teacher Excellence Program: Final Report (December 2010)
NEPC Review
March 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
Deficiencies & Misinterpretations in the Center for American Progress Method for Measuring and Comparing School District Return on Investment
Reviews Worth Sharing
January 22, 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
Understanding Costs and Inflation
Reviews Worth Sharing
January 12, 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
Reviews Worth Sharing: The Attack on American Education (December 2010)
Reviews Worth Sharing
December 23, 2010
NEPC Review: 2010 State School Report Card (October 2010)
NEPC Review
December 14, 2010
NEPC Review: Closing the Racial Achievement Gap (September 2010)
NEPC Review
November 30, 2010
NEPC Review: An Analysis of Arizona Individual Income Tax-Credit Scholarship Recipients' Family Income (October 2010)
NEPC Review
November 18, 2010
NEPC Review: Teacher Evaluation 2.0 (TNTP, October 2010)
NEPC Review
November 16, 2010
NEPC Review: Fostering Innovation and Excellence (May 2010)
NEPC Review
October 5, 2010
NEPC Review: Successful, Safe, and Healthy Students (May 2010)
NEPC Review
October 5, 2010
NEPC Review: Meeting the Needs of English Learners and Other Diverse Learners (May 2010)
NEPC Review
October 5, 2010
NEPC Review: A Complete Education (May 2010)
NEPC Review
October 5, 2010
NEPC Review: Great Teachers and Great Leaders (May 2010)
NEPC Review
October 5, 2010
NEPC Review: College- and Career-Ready Students (May 2010)
NEPC Review
October 5, 2010
Teach For America: A Review of the Evidence
Policy Brief
NEPC Review: They Spend WHAT? The Real Cost of Public Schools (March 2010)
NEPC Review
May 5, 2010
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: Graduation Rates for Choice and Public School Students in Milwaukee, 2003-2008 (February 2010)
NEPC Review
March 31, 2010
NEPC Review: America's Private Public Schools (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, February 2010)
NEPC Review
March 24, 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
Policy and Statutory Responses to Advertising and Marketing in Schools
Legislative Brief
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
Marketing of Food in Schools: Little Educational or Nutritional Content
Legacy Publication
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: Markets vs. Monopolies in Education: A Global Review of the Evidence (September 2008)
NEPC Review
September 30, 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
Alternative Certification of Teachers
Policy Brief
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
School Choice: Evidence and Recommendations
Policy Brief
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
The Commercial and Non-Commercial in Education: A Dialogue
Legacy Publication
NEPC Review: End It, Don't Mend It: What to Do with No Child Left Behind (September 2007)
NEPC Review
October 8, 2007
NEPC Review: The ABC's of School Choice (September 2007)
NEPC Review
September 24, 2007
NEPC Review: Shortchanging Disadvantaged Students: An Analysis of Intra-district Spending Patterns in Ohio (August 2007)
NEPC Review
September 20, 2007
NEPC Review: Portfolios: A Backward Step in School Accountability (September 2007)
NEPC Review
September 19, 2007
NEPC Review: Michigan Higher Education: Facts and Fiction (Mackinac Center, July 2007)
NEPC Review
July 5, 2007
NEPC Review: How Much Are Public School Teachers Paid? (Manhattan Institute, January 2007)
NEPC Review
February 19, 2007
NEPC Review: Report Card on American Education (November 2006)
NEPC Review
January 8, 2007
The Use of Assessment for Curricular Differentiation
Resource Document
Dropout Policies: Research-Based Strategies
Policy Brief
The Testing Culture and the Persistence of High Stakes Testing Reforms
Resource Document
Money Mutterers
Resource Document
Truthiness in Education
Legacy Publication
Teacher Attrition in Charter Schools
Policy Brief
Demanding More of Presidential Candidates
Resource Document
Discarding the Deficit Model
Resource Document
NEPC Review: Giving Students the Chaff: How to Find and Keep the Teachers We Need (September 2006)
NEPC Review
October 25, 2006
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
Monolingual Assessment and Emerging Bilinguals: A Case Study in the U.S.
Resource Document
Alternative Approaches to the Politics of Detracking
Resource Document
The Diversity Rationale: The Intellectual Roots of an Ideal
Resource Document
Toward a Deeper Understanding of the Diversity Rationale
Resource Document
Diagnostic Assessment with Ordered Multiple-Choice Items
Resource Document
Cultural Considerations with Response to Intervention Models
Resource Document
Dangerous Reading
Resource Document
Bush Education Law Shows Mixed Results in First Test
Resource Document
Public Schools Private Markets
Resource Document
Our Impoverished View of Educational Reform
Resource Document
Can Irrational Become Unconstitutional? NCLB's 100% Presuppositions
Resource Document
Inside School Choice: Fifteen Years of Vouchers
Resource Document
The Near Impossibility of Testing for Teacher Quality
Legacy Publication
Resisting the Specter of Fierce Neatness
Resource Document
Study Finds Shortcoming in New Law on Education
Resource Document
A Lucrative Brand of Tutoring Grows Unchecked
Resource Document
Hammers and Saws for the Improvement of Education Research
Resource Document
The Soft Bigotry of Low Expenditures
Resource Document
On School Choice and Test-Based Accountability
Resource Document
Closing the Achievement Gap by Detracking
Resource Document
No Child Left Behind: Where Does the Money Go?
Policy Brief
Test Results Untrustworthy
Legacy Publication
Calls to Toughen High Schools Remain Misguided
Legacy Publication
Bill Gates, If You're So Rich, How Come You're Not Smart?
Legacy Publication
Education's 'Groundhog Day'
Legacy Publication
Data Point to Failure
Legacy Publication
School Commercialism and Adolescent Health
Legacy Publication
Can Irrational Become Unconstitutional? NCLB’s 100% Presuppositions
Resource Document
America's Charter Schools
Resource Document
Home Schooling: Whose Business Is It?
Resource Document
Children's Reading Scores Stalled in Major States
Resource Document
Collapse of 60 Charter Schools Leaves Californians Scrambling
Resource Document
Fee to Former Superintendent Raises Issues
Resource Document
Good Schools or Bad? Ratings Baffle Parents
Resource Document
U.S. Cutting Back on Details in Data About Charter Schools
Resource Document
Charter Schools Trail in Results, U.S. Data Reveal
Resource Document
Bad Data Poison Language Study
Legacy Publication
Education for Sale! The Commodification of Everything?
Resource Document
Social Welfare, the Neo-Conservative Turn, and Educational Opportunity
Resource Document
A Critique of Experimentalism
Resource Document
Causal Inference and the Heckman Model
Resource Document
The Science of Professional Development
Resource Document
Red-Eared Sliders and Neighborhood Dogs
Resource Document
Rethinking Expert Testimony in Education Rights Legislation
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
Two Very Different Questions
Legacy Publication
These Youths Deserve Better
Legacy Publication
Time To Ask Some Critical Questions About "Dream Schools"
Legacy Publication
Cashing in on the Classroom
Legacy Publication
"No Child Left Behind" After Two Years: A Track Record of Failure
Resource Document
Florida's Voucher Programs
Resource Document
Reform Florida Executive Summaries
Policy Brief
Funding a Movement
Resource Document
State Faults Charter School Data
Resource Document
Edison Schools Accepts Buyout
Resource Document
Bush Flunks Schools
Resource Document
Arizona's Dropouts Lost in the Calculation Shuffle
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State Approaches for Calculating High School Graduation Rates
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Voucher Bargain May Cost Taxpayers
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Determinants of Student Achievement: New Evidence from San Diego
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Proceedings of the State Forum on Teacher Education in Arizona
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Inside the No Child Left Behind Law
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Reports Find Fault with High-Stakes Testing
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When Should Bilingual Students Be in Special Education?
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An Introduction to Multidimensional Measurement using Rasch Models
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An Analysis of Colorado's School Voucher Proposals
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Important Publications in the Field of LD in Light of Imminent Topics
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Penalizing Diverse Schools?
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Research Worth Knowing
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Teaching Practices for Smaller Classes
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Class-Size Reduction: A Fresh Look at the Data
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Lies My Teacher Still Tells
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The "No Child Left Behind Act" and Teaching Reading
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SAGE Advice: Research on Teaching in Reduced-Size Classes
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Excellence Fails to Impress Feds
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Low Pay + Big Classes = Teacher Crisis
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High-Stakes AIMS is a Brutal Test That Hurts the Students
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No Student Left Unsold
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The Commercial Assault on Children and the School Environment
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Sold Out: Corporate Marketing in America's Schools
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Closing Achievement Gaps
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Class Size: Counting Students Can Count
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More Schools Rely on Tests, But Study Raises Doubts
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Babble On, You English-Only Guys
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Studies Say Students Learn More from Licensed Teachers
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Limitations of the Market Model
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Diversity Enhances Education
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Public Schooling for Profit
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Arizona Report Finds Poorest Gain Little from Tax Credits
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Free Market Free-for-All
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Educating the "Right" Way: Markets, Standards, God, and Inequality
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What Happened to Recess and Why are Our Children Struggling in Kindergarten?
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What You Need to Know About High Stakes Testing in California
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Researchers: Education Reforms Flawed
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Research: Researching the Researchers
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Ability Tracking: What Role for the Courts?
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The Heart of the Matter: Philosophy and Educational Research
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Free Market Free-for-All
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Comment: Jack Kaplan's New Study of SAT Teaching
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SAT Coaching, Bias and Causal Inference
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Test Preparation Programs: Impact
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The Changing Roles and Responsibilities of an LD Specialist
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School Reform Proposals: The Research Evidence
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Editorial: Winning Without the Facts
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The Broken Business Model
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Tuition Tax Credits Can't Be Credited for Helping Poor
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Vouchers a Costly Path to a Divisive Education
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What They Did on Vacation: It's Not Schools That Are Failing Poor Kids
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Salem-Keizer School District and Pepsi Pouring Rights
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The Corporate Branding of Our Schools
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Commercializing Schools: A Threat to Our Children's Health
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Corporate Involvement in School Reform
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Student Privacy Protection Included in Education Bill
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Edison Schools Perform Poorly Nationwide
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Separate and Unequal 15-Year-Olds
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Significance of Test-Based Ratings for Metropolitan Boston Schools
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Examination of Civil Rights at School: S. 1357
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International Education Policy: H.C.R. 201
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National Mathematics and Science Partnerships Act: H.R. 1858
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Pupils Lose Their Grip on Education if Schools Hold Too Tightly to Tests
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Early Childhood Education Program: H.R. 1118
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Congress, Teachers, and the Perils of Merit Pay
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School Vouchers
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The Return to Separate and Unequal
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The Role of Classroom Assessment in Teaching and Learning
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Educational Ethnography Past, Present, and Future: Ideas to Think With
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Affirmative Action and the Creation of More Favorable Contexts of Choice
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Alexander v. Sandoval: A Setback for Civil Rights
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The Effect of Admissions Test Preparation: Evidence from NELS-88
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School Choice Crucible: A Case Study of Boulder Valley
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Class Size Reduction and Special Education Referrals and Placements
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Let the Buyer Beware
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Evaluation of the Wisconsin Charter School Program, 2000-2001
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The Bush Education Agenda: Tested for Failure
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A Blow to Equal Opportunity Education
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Yes, President Bush, Johnny's Test Scores May Be Up, But Can He Read?
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Vouchers: No Solution to Educating the Poor
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A Lesson Plan for the Schools With Little Learning Behind It
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Our Schools vs. Theirs: Averages That Hide the True Extremes
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Buy Me! Buy Me!
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Corporate Involvement in Schools: Time for a More Critical Look
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Buy Me! Buy Me!
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Reducing Class Size to Enhance Learning
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Texas Tests Harbor a "Soft Bigotry" of Their Own
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Commercials as Curriculum
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Milwaukee Parental Choice Program
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High-Stakes Testing
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Charter Schools
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Ultimate Education Reform? Make Schools Smaller
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The Great Divide: It's Not Just Digital
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Proposition 38 Makes Promises It Cannot Keep
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Teachers, Testing, and the Governor
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Looking for Funds in All the Wrong Places
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The Role of Assessment in a Learning Culture
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New Directions in American Educational History: Problems and Prospects
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A Study of Boulder Valley School District's Open Enrollment Program
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The Arizona Education Tax Credit and Hidden Considerations of Justice
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Boundaries and Selves in the Making of 'Science'
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Navigating the Politics of Detracking
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Will Vouchers Work for Low-Income Students?
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Voucher and Class-Size Research
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Testing Teachers to Raise Standards: Does It Work?
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Commercialism@School.com
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ZapMe! Linking Schoolhouse and Marketplace in a Seamless Web
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Colonizing Our Future: The Commercial Transformation of America's Schools
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Educational Vouchers: A Review of the Research
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Teaching Literacy in Spanish
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Contextualizing Homeschooling Data: A Response to Rudner
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Ethics in Educational Research
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Sustaining Research-Based Practices in Reading: A Three-Year Follow-Up
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Pilot Evaluation of the Wisconsin Charter School Program
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Chronology of Edison Project Funding
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Resisting Zero Tolerance
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Unfinished Business in Milwaukee
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Poverty Issues Get Short Shrift in Today's Education Debate
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Cashing in on Kids
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The Commercial Transformation of American Public Education
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An Examination of Sustaining Effects in Descubriendo La Lectura Programs
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On the Success of Failure: A Rejoinder to Alexander
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On the Subject of Interpretive Reviews
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The Interpretive Turn and the New Debate in Education
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Inclusion or Pull-Out: Which Do Students Prefer?
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Smaller Classes–Not Vouchers–Increase Student Achievement
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Alex Molnar's Testimony to the Wisconsin Legislative Black Caucus
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Sponsored Schools and Commercialized Classrooms
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The Hidden Costs of Channel One: Estimates for the 50 States
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The Hidden Costs of Channel One: Estimates for the 50 States
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First Year Results of the Student Achievement Guarantee in Education Program
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The Real Lessons of Milwaukee's Voucher Experiment
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The Centrality of Test Use and Consequences for Test Validity
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Effects of Introducing Classroom Performance Assessments on Student Learning
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Creating the Conditions for Scientific Literacy: A Reconsideration
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Charter Schools: The Smiling Face of Disinvestment
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Parents' Thinking About Standardized Tests and Performance
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Promises and Puzzles of Culturally-Sensitive Teaching
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Students' Views of Instructional Practices: Implications for Inclusion
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Standards, Assessment, and Equality of Educational Opportunity
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The Place of Testing Reform in Educational Reform: A Reply to Cizek
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Evaluating Test Validity
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Constructing Cultural Difference and Educational Achievement in Schools
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Getting Over the Quantitative-Qualitative Debate
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Validity in Educational Research
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Psychometricians' Beliefs about Learning
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Social and Cultural Constraints on Students' Access to School Knowledge
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Effects of High-Stakes Testing on Instruction
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Standards for Qualitative (and Quantitative) Research: A Prolegomenon
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Should Instruction Be Measurement Driven? A Debate
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The Ethnographic Research Tradition and Mathematics Education Research
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Escalating Academic Demand in Kindergarten: Counterproductive Policies
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Flunking Kindergarten: Escalating Curriculum Leaves Many Behind
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What Doesn't Work: Explaining Policies of Retention in Early Grades
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Bias in the Biography: Bias and Subjectivity in Ethnographic Research
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The Texas Teacher Test
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The Inadequacy of ANOVA for Detecting Test Bias
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Characteristics of Pupils Identified as Learning Disabled
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Standard Setting Issues and Methods
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Technical Issues in Minimum Competency Testing
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