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NEPC Review: A State-Level Perspective on School Spending and Educational Outcomes (Brookings Institution, September 2025)

NEPC Review

Mark Weber

December 12, 2025

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NEPC Review: ESA’s in Arizona: Q3 2025 Report (Common Sense Institute Arizona, October 2025)

NEPC Review

David R. Garcia

December 4, 2025

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NEPC Review: Wisconsin’s Most Cost-Effective K-12 Program (School Choice Wisconsin, August 2025)

NEPC Review

Bruce D. Baker

October 28, 2025

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NEPC Review: Productive Struggle: How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Learning, Effort, and Youth Development in Education (Bellwether, June 2025)

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Thomas M. Philip

October 21, 2025

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NEPC Review: Let’s Get Ready! Educating All Americans for Success (National Governors Association, July 2025)

NEPC Review

Ryan Pfleger

October 14, 2025

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NEPC Review: Directional Signals: A New Analysis of the Evolving Private School Choice Landscape (FutureEd, July 2025)

NEPC Review

Christopher Lubienski

September 30, 2025

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NEPC Review: Fiscal Factbook: 2025 Edition (EdChoice, July 2025)

NEPC Review

Mark Weber

September 4, 2025

NEPC Review: Apples to Apples: The Definitive Look at School Test Scores in Milwaukee and Wisconsin for 2024 (Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, March 2025)

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Benjamin R. Shear

June 10, 2025

NEPC Review: The Enrollment Decline Windfall (EdChoice, February 2025)

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David E. DeMatthews and Jinseok Shin

May 8, 2025

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NEPC Review: The Persistence of Religious Discrimination in Publicly Funded Pre-K Programs (Manhattan Institute, January 2025)

NEPC Review

Joshua Weishart

May 1, 2025

NEPC Review: Testing Theories of Why: Four Keys to Interpreting US Student Achievement Trends (American Enterprise Institute, January 2025)

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Chris Domaleski

April 25, 2025

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NEPC Review: Thousands Served: Students with Disabilities in Wisconsin’s Parental Choice Programs (School Choice Wisconsin and Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, January 2025)

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Maria M. Lewis and Julie F. Mead

April 8, 2025

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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

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NEPC Review: Fiscal Effects of School Choice: The Costs and Savings of Private School Choice Programs in America Through FY 2022 (EdChoice, October 2024)

NEPC Review

Mark Weber

February 11, 2025

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NEPC Review: Think Again: Are Education Programs for High Achievers Inherently Inequitable? (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, October 2024)

NEPC Review

Margaret Thornton

February 4, 2025

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NEPC Review: Underachieving and Underenrolled: Chronically Low-Performing Schools in the Post-Pandemic Era (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, September 2024)

NEPC Review

Sally Nuamah

January 29, 2025

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NEPC Review: Resource Realities: A Comparative Analysis of Charter and District School Funding in Washington, D.C. (Bellwether, November 2024)

NEPC Review

Clive Belfield

January 21, 2025

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NEPC Review: School Segregation on School Report Cards: Who Are We Grading Anyway? (Urban Institute, September 2024)

NEPC Review

James Noonan

December 10, 2024

NEPC Review: Searching for the Tipping Point: Scaling up Public School Choice Spurs Citywide Gains (Public Policy Institute, October 2024)

NEPC Review

David R. Garcia

December 4, 2024

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NEPC Review: Learning Systems: Shaping the Role of Artificial Intelligence in Education (Bellwether, September 2024)

NEPC Review

T. Philip Nichols

November 27, 2024

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NEPC Review: Reassessing ESSA Implementation: An Equity Analysis of School Accountability Systems (EdTrust, September 2024)

NEPC Review

Derek Gottlieb

November 20, 2024

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NEPC Review: Pennsylvania’s Education Tax Credit Scholarships: How EITC Serves Children and Families in the Commonwealth (Commonwealth Foundation, September 2024)

NEPC Review

Bruce D. Baker

November 12, 2024

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NEPC Review: Systemwide and Intervention-Specific Effects of Denver Public Schools’ Portfolio District Strategy on Individual Student Achievement (Center for Education Policy Analysis, University of Colorado Denver, September 2024)

NEPC Review

Robert Shand

November 8, 2024

NEPC Review: Ohio Charter Schools After the Pandemic: Are Their Students Still Learning More Than They Would in District Schools? (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, June 2024)

NEPC Review

Bryan Mann

September 24, 2024

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NEPC Review: Helping Families Navigate the Changing Education Landscape (Cato Institute, June 2024)

NEPC Review

Huriya Jabbar

September 10, 2024

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NEPC Review: The Broken Pipeline: Advanced Education Policies at the Local Level (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, April 2024)

NEPC Review

Eunice S. Han

July 18, 2024

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NEPC Review: “So Hard, But So Rewarding:” How School System Leaders Are Scaling Up Strategic School Staffing Models (Center on Reinventing Public Education, March 2024)

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Elizabeth Stringer Keefe

July 11, 2024

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NEPC Review: Did the Emergence of Ohio Charter Schools Help or Harm Students Who Remained in District Schools? (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, March 2024)

NEPC Review

Bryan Mann

June 20, 2024

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NEPC Review: Spark & Sustain: How All the World’s School Systems Can Improve Learning at Scale (McKinsey & Company, February 2024)

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Clara Fontdevila, Antoni Verger, and Adrián Zancajo

June 13, 2024

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NEPC Review: The Reality of Switchers (EdChoice, March 2024)

NEPC Review

Joshua Cowen

May 3, 2024

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NEPC Review: Public Education at a Crossroads: A Comprehensive Look at K-12 Resources and Outcomes (Reason Foundation, February 2024)

NEPC Review

Clive Belfield

April 10, 2024

NEPC Review: K-12 School Choice Calculator (Reason Foundation and EdChoice, January 2024)

NEPC Review

Bruce D. Baker

March 19, 2024

NEPC Review: Still a Good Investment: Charter School Productivity in Nine Cities (University of Arkansas Department of Education Reform, November 2023)

NEPC Review

Mark Weber

January 23, 2024

NEPC Review: The Cost-Effectiveness of Wisconsin’s Private School Choice Programs (School Choice Wisconsin, September 2023)

NEPC Review

Stephen Kotok

December 12, 2023

NEPC Review: From Surviving to Thriving: K-12 Choice and Opportunity for Rural Texas Students and Teachers (The Heritage Foundation, August 2023)

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Amanda U. Potterton, Annah Rogers, and Jeanne M. Powers

December 8, 2023

NEPC Review: Small Class Sizes for Improving Student Achievement in Primary and Secondary Schools: A Systematic Review (Campbell Collaboration, October 2018)

NEPC Review

Clive Belfield

November 22, 2023

NEPC Review: Integrating Housing and Education Solutions to Reduce Segregation and Drive School Equity (Urban Institute, August 2023)

NEPC Review

Andrene J. Castro

November 14, 2023

NEPC Review: The 123s of School Choice: What the Research Says About Private School Choice Programs in America, 2023 Edition (EdChoice, June 2023)

NEPC Review

Christopher Lubienski

October 12, 2023

NEPC Review: Qualified Education Expense Tax Credit: Economic Analysis (Georgia Department of Audits and Accounts, June 2023)

NEPC Review

David S. Knight

September 27, 2023

NEPC Review: Teacher Prep Review: Strengthening Elementary Reading Instruction (National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), June 2023)

NEPC Review

P.L. Thomas

September 19, 2023

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