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Does K-12 Testing Need a Tune-Up?

Newsletter

January 27, 2026

To Test or Not to Test? What Research Has to Say About the SAT and ACT

Newsletter

August 7, 2025

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

NEPC Review

Chris Domaleski

April 25, 2025

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

NEPC Talks Education: An Interview With Andrew Ho About NAEP and the Federal Role in Education Assessment

Podcasts

Christopher Saldaña and Andrew Ho

March 18, 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

Testing and Accountability: The Federal Role

Newsletter

September 26, 2024

Mark Zuckerberg Tried to Revolutionize American Education With Technology. It Didn’t Go as Planned.

Resource Document

Matt Barnum

October 11, 2023

Testing is Broken. Can This Bill Fix It?

Newsletter

October 5, 2023

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We Need Better Education Policy. Summit Public Schools Shows Why.

Research Brief

Alex Molnar, Faith Boninger, Anna Noble, and Meenakshi Mani

September 21, 2023

Educational Accountability 3.0: Beyond ESSA

Resource Document

May 1, 2023

Five Reasons to Be Cautious When Comparing Pre- and During-Pandemic Test Scores

Newsletter

March 28, 2023

State Accountability Rating Systems: A Review of School Report Cards as Indicators of School Quality

Policy Brief

Gail L. Sunderman

June 23, 2022

NEPC Review: Ohio’s Lost Einsteins: The Inequitable Outcomes of Early High Achievers (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, September 2021)

NEPC Review

Eunice S. Han and Yongmei Ni

December 2, 2021

Spring 2021 Exam Results Are In. Now What?

Newsletter

October 28, 2021

Making Early Literacy Policy Work: Three Considerations for Policymakers Based on Kentucky’s “Read to Succeed” Act

Policy Brief

Amy Cummings

June 3, 2021

NEPC Review: School Accountability--Past, Present, and Future (Hoover Institution, November 2020)

NEPC Review

Gail L. Sunderman

February 10, 2021

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NEPC Review: Student Assessment During COVID-19 (Center for American Progress, September 2020)

NEPC Review

Gene V Glass, William J. Mathis, and David C. Berliner

October 30, 2020

Issues to Consider Before Adopting a Digital Platform or Learning Program

Policy Brief

Faith Boninger, Alex Molnar, and Michael K. Barbour

September 24, 2020

The Misguided Push to Reintroduce Standardized Testing During the Pandemic

Newsletter

August 6, 2020

Four Big Takeaways About Testing

Newsletter

March 5, 2020

Five Charts That Show Why We Really Need to Track Educational Equity

Newsletter

October 8, 2019

Data Walls Demoralize Students. Assessment Expert Lorrie Shepard Explains Why

Newsletter

August 29, 2019

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

NEPC Review

Lorrie Shepard

April 2, 2019

A Consumer’s Guide to Testing under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA): What Can the Common Core and Other ESSA Assessments Tell Us?

Resource Document

Madhabi Chatterji

March 5, 2019

High Stakes, Low Validity?

Newsletter

July 19, 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: High Stakes for High Achievers:
State Accountability in the Age of ESSA (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, August 2016)

NEPC Review

Beth C. Rubin

January 26, 2017

Review of The Efficiency Index

NEPC Review

Clive Belfield

September 23, 2014

Does Class Size Matter?

Policy Brief

Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

February 18, 2014

Review of School Choice and School Performance in the New York City Public Schools

NEPC Review

Patricia Burch, Mary Stewart, and Jahni Smith

November 19, 2013

NEPC Review: KIPP Middle Schools: Impacts on Achievement and Other Outcomes (Mathematica Policy Research, February 2013)

NEPC Review

Gregory Camilli

April 30, 2013

Review of Does Sorting Students Improve Test Scores?

NEPC Review

Carol C. Burris and Katherine E. Allison

April 2, 2013

NEPC Review: On Her Majesty’s School Inspection Service (January 2012)

NEPC Review

Steven Jay Gross

February 28, 2012

Reviews Worth Sharing: Myths and Facts about Value-Added Analysis (TNTP, November 2011)

Reviews Worth Sharing

Matthew Di Carlo

November 11, 2011

Letter to Secretary of Education Arne Duncan Concerning Evaluation of Teachers and Principals

Policy Memo

Kevin G. Welner and Carol C. Burris

July 30, 2011

NEPC Review: Passing Muster: Evaluating Teacher Evaluation Systems (April 2011)

NEPC Review

Bruce D. Baker

May 18, 2011

Due Diligence and the Evaluation of Teachers

Research Brief

Derek C. Briggs and Ben Domingue

February 8, 2011

NEPC Review: Learning About Teaching (December 2010)

NEPC Review

Jesse Rothstein

January 13, 2011

NEPC Review: U.S. Math Performance in Global Perspective: How Well Does Each State Do at Producing High-Achieving Students? (November 2010)

NEPC Review

Jeremy Kilpatrick

January 11, 2011

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