NEPC Resources on School Reform and Restructuring

Big Claims, Little Evidence, Lots of Money: The Reality Behind the Summit Learning Program and the Push to Adopt Digital Personalized Learning Platforms

Faith Boninger, Alex Molnar, and Christopher Saldaña

June 25, 2020

NEPC Review: Comparing Ed Reforms: Assessing the Experimental Research on Nine K-12 Education Reforms (EdChoice, April 2020)

NEPC Review

Bruce D. Baker

May 27, 2020

The New Normal Could Be Better Than the Old One. A Learning Scientist Explains Why.

May 21, 2020

Sustaining and Scaling Community Schools: Seven Questions to Consider

May 5, 2020

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

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

April 16, 2020

Community Research Collaboratives

Adam York, Siomara Valladares, Michelle Renée Valladares, Jon Snyder, and Matt Garcia

March 24, 2020

Between-District Desegregation: Three Districts That Are Doing It Right

February 11, 2020

Patience Can Be Rewarded: RAND Report Demonstrates Promise of Embattled NYC Community Schools Model

February 6, 2020

Education Interview of the Month: Christopher Saldaña Interviews Daniel Markovits About American Meritocracy

Christopher Saldaña and Daniel Markovits

January 16, 2020

Educational Distrust is Everywhere. Here’s What We Can Do About It

December 10, 2019

Education Interview of the Month: Christopher Saldaña Interviews Katherine Schultz About Distrust in Educational Change

Christopher Saldaña and Katherine Schultz

October 24, 2019

Recasting Families and Communities as Co-Designers of Education in Tumultuous Times

Ann M. Ishimaru, Megan Bang, Michelle Renée Valladares, Charlene Montaño Nolan, Henedina Tavares, Aditi Rajendran, and Katherine Chang

July 16, 2019

Backpedaling on Brown: The Re-Segregation of Our Nation’s Schools

May 16, 2019

Does Closing Schools Pay Off?

January 29, 2019

NEPC Fellow Douglas Harris Responds to Critiques of Study, and a Q&A on the Effect of New Orleans School Reforms

November 6, 2018

These Comeback Kids Don’t Bake Cookies: The Community-Based Transformation of an Urban School

October 16, 2018

What Should We Really Learn From New Orleans After the Storm? A Q&A With NEPC Fellow Bruce Baker

October 9, 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

Donald J. Peurach and Maxwell Yurkofsky

September 27, 2018

How to Sustain Community Schools − The Partnership for the Future of Learning Publishes New How-To Guide

August 30, 2018

What Does Research Have to Say About LeBron’s New School?

August 21, 2018

School Closures: When a School is More than Just a School

May 15, 2018

Education Interview of the Month: Greg Smith Interviews Warren Simmons About Systemic Change in Schools

Gregory A. Smith and Warren Simmons

March 7, 2018

NEPC Review: The Academic and Behavioral Consequences of Discipline Policy Reform: Evidence from Philadelphia (Fordham Institute, December 2017)

NEPC Review

Yolanda Anyon and Kathryn Wiley

February 15, 2018

Education Interview of the Month: Greg Smith Interviews Jeannie Oakes on Community Schools

Gregory A. Smith and Jeannie Oakes

December 19, 2017

Community Schools: Closing Opportunity Gaps for Students in Need

December 14, 2017

NEPC Review: School District Reform in Newark (National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2017) and Assessing the Impact of the Newark Education Reforms (Center for Education Policy Research, Harvard University, September 2017)

NEPC Review

Mark Weber and Bruce D. Baker

December 14, 2017

Might the New Gates Education Initiative Close Opportunity Gaps?

Kevin G. Welner

December 12, 2017

NEPC Review: Lights Off: Practice and Impact of Closing Low-Performing Schools (CREDO, August 2017)

NEPC Review

Matthew Gaertner and Ben Kirshner

October 24, 2017

NEPC Review: Leveraging ESSA to Support Quality-School Growth

NEPC Review

Gail L. Sunderman

June 13, 2017

Community Schools: An Evidence-Based Strategy for Equitable School Improvement

Jeannie Oakes, Anna Maier, and Julia Daniel

June 5, 2017

School Closure as a Strategy to Remedy Low Performance

Gail L. Sunderman, Erin Coghlan, and Rick Mintrop

May 18, 2017

Review of Reimagining Learning: A Big Bet on the Future of American Education

NEPC Review

Jeffrey W. Snyder

March 7, 2017

Review of Measures of Last Resort: Assessing Strategies for State-Initiated Turnarounds

NEPC Review

Betty Malen and Jennifer King Rice

February 14, 2017

Denver “Portfolio” Report’s Flaws Remain, Reviewer Confirms

August 18, 2016

Review of A 21st Century School System in the Mile-High City

NEPC Review

Terrenda White

July 26, 2016

Review of Measuring School Turnaround Success

NEPC Review

Tina Trujillo and Marialena Rivera

July 20, 2016

Research-Based Expectations for Implementation of the Community Schools Initiative in New York City

Julia Daniel, Kevin G. Welner, and Michelle Renée Valladares

June 14, 2016

Review of Dramatic Action, Dramatic Improvement

NEPC Review

Tina Trujillo

May 11, 2015

Review of New York City's Children First

NEPC Review

Randall Reback

June 3, 2014