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2018
The National Center for Education Statistics, April 2018, National Assessment of Educational Progress.
NC Justice Center, Alexandra F. Sirota, BTC Director, March 2018: How Current Immigration Enforcement and Deportation Hurts Children
JAMA Pediatrics, Arthur J. Reynolds,PhD, Suh-Ruu Ou, PhD, Judy A. Temple, PhD, March 2018: A Multicomponent, Preschool to Third Grade Preventive Intervention and Educational Attainment at 35 Years of Age
National Commission on Social, Emotional, and Academic Development, March 12, 2018: The Practice Base For How We Learn: Supporting Students’ Social, Emotional, and Academic Development
Education & Law Project: Stymied by Segregation
Economic Policy Institute, March 1, 2018: The State of American Wages 2017
The Equality of Opportunity Project, March 2018: Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States: An Intergenerational Perspective
Urban Institute, February 2018: Expanding Preschool Access for Children of Immigrants
Schott Foundation for Public Education, Feb 2018: Loving Cities Index
Education Commission of the States, February 2018: How States Fund Pre-K: A Primer for Policymakers
Education Law Center, Rutgers University, February 2018: Is School Funding Fair? A National Report Card
North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, February 2018: Highlights of the North Carolina Public School Budget February 2018
NC Child, February 2018: 2018 Child Health Report Card
AASA, The School Superintendents Association, February 2018: Ten Years Later: How Funding Pressures Continue to Impact Our Nation’s Schools
University of California, Los Angeles and University of North Carolina at Charlotte, January 2018: Charters as a Driver of Resegregation
Education Week’s Annual State-by-State Assessment of Public Education, January 2018 Quality Counts 2018: Report and Rankings: A Report Card for States and the Nation on K-12 Education
A 2018 Report From the Columbia Group Member Organizations, with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, January 2018: Accelerating the Pace: The Future of Education in the American South
Public School Forum of North Carolina, January 2018: Top Ten Education Issues 2018
Youth Justice Project, January 2018: Racial Equity Report Cards
* added March 2018
2017
Kris Nordstrom, Education & Law Project, North Carolina Justice Center, December 2017: The Unraveling: Poorly-crafted Education Policies are Failing North Carolina’s Children
Education Week Research Center, December 2017: Educator Political Perceptions: A National Survey
Michael Leachman, Kathleen Masterson, and Eric Figueroa, Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, November 29, 2017: A Punishing Decade for School Funding
The Network for Public Education, November 2017: Charters and Consequences: An Investigative Series
AASA The School Superintendents Association, November 2017: Leveling the Playing Field for Rural Students
Brookings Institution, November 2017: Balancing Act: Schools, Neighborhoods and Racial Imbalance (interactive with searchable school-level data here)
Education Research Alliance for NOLA Policy Brief, November 20, 2017: What are the Sources of School Discipline Disparities by Student Race and Family Income?
David Figlio, Brookings Institution, November 16, 2017: The Importance of a Diverse Teaching Force
Dana Charles McCoy, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Kathleen M. Ziol-Guest, Greg J. Duncan, Holly S. Schindler, Katherine Magnuson, Rui Yang, Andrew Koepp, and Jack P. Shonkoff, Educational Researcher, November 16, 2017: Impacts of Early Childhood Education on Medium- and Long-Term Educational Outcomes
Annie E. Casey Foundation, October 24, 2017: 2017 Race for Results: Building a Path to Opportunity for All Children
Jay Shambaugh, Lauren Bauer, and Audrey Breitwieser, October 12, 2017: Who is Poor in the United States? A Hamilton Project Annual Report
*The Center for Popular Democracy, October 2017: Young People’s Vision for Safe, Supportive, and Inclusive Schools
*Phi Delta Kappan, September 2017: The 49th Annual PDK Poll of the Public’s Attitudes Toward the Public Schools
Emma Garcia and Elaine Weiss, Economic Policy Institute, September 27, 2017: Education Inequalities at the School Starting Gate: Gaps, Trends, and Strategies to Address Them
UChicago Consortium on School Research, September 2017: The Predictive Power of Ninth Grade GPA
Janelle Jones, Economic Policy Institute, September 20, 2017: One-third of Native American and African American Children Are (Still) in Poverty
Phi Delta Kappan, September 2017: Academic Achievement Isn’t the Only Mission: The 49th Annual PDK Poll of the Public’s Attitudes Toward the Public Schools
Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality, September 2017: Be Her Resource: A Toolkit About School Resource Officers and Girls of Color
Education Commission of the States, August 2017: Charter Authorizers: What They Are and Why They Matter
*North Carolina State University, August 2017: The Impact of the North Carolina Opportunity Scholarship
National Center for Education Statistics and Institute for Education Sciences for US Department of Education, July 2017: Crime, Violence, Discipline, and Safety in U.S. Public Schools: Findings From the School Survey on Crime and Safety: 2015–16, First Look
NAACP Task Force on Quality Education, July 26, 2017: Quality Education for All: One School at a Time
Rice University, 17 July 2017: More Children Living in High-Poverty Neighborhoods Following Great Recession (from Science Daily)
Ellen S. Peisner-Fienberg, Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center, UNC-CH, July 11, 2017: NC Pre-Kindergarten Program Evaluation Key Findings 2002-2016
*State of North Carolina Department of Administration Division of Non-Public Education,June 2017: 2017 North Carolina Private School Statistics
U.S. Census Bureau, June 2017: Public Education Finances: 2015
*U.S. Department of Education Office of Postsecondary Education, June 2017: Teacher Shortage Areas Nationwide Listing
Annie E. Casey Foundation, June 2017: The 2017 KIDS COUNT Data Book, and NC Data Sheet
The Rural School and Community Trust, June 2017: Why Rural Matters 2015-2016: Understanding the Changing Landscape
*Final Report to the Joint Legislative Program Evaluation Oversight Committee, May 1, 2017 : Meeting Current Standards for School Nurses Statewide May Cost Up to $79 Million Annually
Erica Frankenberg, Genevieve Siegel Hawley, Jongyeon Ee and Gary Orfield, The Civil Rights Project, UCLA, May 2017: Southern Schools: More Than a Half-Century After the Civil Rights Revolution
Jason Langberg, Youth Justice Project of the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, May 2017: What Everyone Ought to Know About Suspension and Expulsion in North Carolina Public Schools
*Pre-Kindergarten Task Force, Brookings Institution, May 2017: The Current State of Scientific Knowledge on Pre-Kindergarten Effects
Institute of Education Sciences, April 2017: Evaluation of the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program: Impacts After One Year
Urban Institute, April 2017: Wealth Inequality is a Barrier to Education and Social Mobility
Anna Nicotera and David Stuit, Thomas B. Fordham Institute, April 2017: Three Signs That a Proposed Charter School is at Risk of Failing
Center for Popular Democracy, April 2017: The $746 Million A Year School-to-Prison Pipeline: The Ineffective, Discriminatory, and Costly Process of Criminalizing New York City Students
Halley Potter, The Century Foundation, March 21, 2017: Do Private School Vouchers Pose a Threat to Integration?
Children’s Law Clinic, Duke Law School, March 2017: School Vouchers In North Carolina, The First Three Years
The Civil Rights Project, UCLA, March 8, 2017: The Hidden Costs of California’s Harsh School Discipline And the Localize Economic Benefits From Suspending Fewer High School Students
Preston C. Green III, University of Connecticut; Bruce D. Baker, The State University of New Jersey – Rutgers University, New Brunswick/Piscataway; Joseph Oluwole, Montclair State University, Indiana Law Journal, February 28, 2017: Are Charter Schools the Second Coming of Enron? An Examination of the Gatekeepers That Protect against Dangerous Related-Party Transactions in the Charter School Sector
Economic Policy Institute, February 28, 2017: School Vouchers Are Not a Proven Strategy for Improving Student Achievement
Education Law Center, Rutgers Graduate School of Education, February 2017: Is School Funding Fair? America’s Most Fiscally Disadvantaged School Districts, 2nd Edition
Learning Policy Institute, February 8, 2017: Addressing California’s Growing Teacher Shortage, 2017 Update
Bellwether Education Partners, February 2017: The Best Teachers for Our Little Learners: Lessons from Head Start’s Last Decade
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, January 2017: Parent Engagement Practices Improve Outcomes for Preschool Children
Education Law Center, Rutgers Graduate School of Education, January 2017 (6th edition): Is School Funding Fair? A National Report Card
Education Commission of the States, January 2017: State Pre-K Funding 2016-17 Fiscal Year: Trends and Opportunities
The Center for Popular Democracy, January 2017: Florida Charters Fall Short on State Assessments
Amy Hawn Nelson, UNC Charlotte Urban Institute, January 5, 2017: As Charters and Choice Expand, So Does Segregation
2016
Economic Policy Institute, December 15, 2016: Mass Incarceration and Children’s Outcomes: Criminal Justice Policy is Education Policy
The Century Foundation, December 12, 2016: Remedying School Segregation: How New Jersey’s Morris School District Chose to Make Diversity Work
Patrick Bayer and Kerwin Kofi Charles, National Bureau of Economic Research, November 22, 2016: Divergent Paths: Structural Change, Economic Rank, and the Evolution of Black-White Earnings Differences, 1940-2014
Dodge, K.A.; Bai, Y.; Ladd, H.F.; and Muschkin, C.G., November 17, 2016: Impact of North Carolina’s Early Childhood Programs and Policies on Educational Outcomes in Elementary School
NC Justice Center, October 2016: How to Build an Economy That Works for All: Attract and Keep High-Quality Teachers in the Classroom With Competitive Pay
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, October 20, 2016: After Nearly a Decade, School Investments Still Way Down in Some States
The Century Foundation, October 14, 2016: School Integration in Practice: Lessons From Nine Districts
Budget & Tax Center (2016): North Carolina’s Greatest Challenge: Elevated Poverty Hampers Economic Opportunity for All
AIR’s Education Policy Center, October 2016: Creating Healthy Schools: Ten Key Ideas for the Social and Emotional Learning and School Climate Communities
In the Public Interest, September 2016: How Privatization Increases Inequality
Yale University Child Study Center, September 28, 2016: Do Early Educators’ Implicit Biases Regarding Sex and Race Relate to Behavior Expectations and Recommendations of Preschool Expulsions and Suspensions?
The Century Foundation, September 20, 2016: Diversity in New York City’s Universal Pre-K Classrooms
Youth Justice Program, Southern Coalition for Social Justice, September 2016: Racial Equity Report Cards
Phi Delta Kappan, September 2016: Why School? The 48th Annual PDK Poll of the Public’s Attitudes Toward the Public Schools
NC Poverty Research Fund, July 2016: Economic Hardship, Racialized Concentrated Poverty, and the Challenges of Low-Wage Work: Charlotte, NC
Jen Kinney, Next City, July 20, 2016: Measuring Childhood Inequity and Opportunity in U.S. Cities
The Heller School for Social Policy and Management, July 18, 2016: Data for a Diverse and Equitable Future
NC Justice Center BTC Reports, July 2016: 2017 Fiscal Year Budget Falls Short of Being a Visionary Plan for North Carolina’s Economic Future: Lawmakers Double Down on Tax Breaks, Set Limited Aspirations
Tennessee Consortium on Research, Evaluation & Development, June 30, 2016: “This Is The Big Leagues” Charter-Led Turnaround in a Non-Charter World
Annie E. Casey Foundation, June 2016: The 2016 KIDS COUNT Data Book
U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights, June 2016: 2013-2014 Civil Rights Data Collection, A First Look: Key Data Highlights on Equity and Opportunity Gaps in Our Nation’s Public Schools
Center for Popular Democracy, May 2016: Charter School Vulnerabilities to Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
U.S. General Accountability Office, April 2016: K-12 Education: Better Use of Information Could Help Agencies Identify Disparities and Address Racial Discrimination
Baker, B. D., Farrie, D. and Sciarra, D. G. (2016): Mind the Gap: 20 Years of Progress and Retrenchment in School Funding, Staffing Resources, and Achievement Gaps.
Ronald Ferguson, Urban Institute, May 10, 2016: Aiming Higher Together: Strategizing Better Educational Outcomes for Boys and Young Men of Color
Ann Owens, University of Southern California, May 2016: Inequality in Children’s Contexts: Income Segregation of Households with and without Children
The Brookings Institution, April 2016: Five Evils: Multidimensional Poverty and Race in America
National Education Policy Center, April 2016: Virtual Schools Report 2016: Directory and Performance Review
Center for American Progress, April 2016: How Much Can High-Quality Universal Pre-K Reduce Achievement Gaps?
Public School Forum of North Carolina, April 2016: 2016 Local School Finance Study
Southern Education Foundation, March 2016: Race and Ethnicity in a New Era of Public Funding for Private Schools: Private School Enrollment in the South and the Nation
Education Equality Index, March 2016: Education Equality in America: Comparing the Achievement Gap Across Schools, Cities, and States
Education Law Center, Rutgers Graduate School of Education, March 2016 (5th edition): Is School Funding Fair? A National Report Card
The Civil Rights Project, UCLA, March 15, 2016: Charter Schools, Civil Rights and School Discipline: A Comprehensive Review
The Century Foundation, March 16, 2016: Doing More for Our Children: Modeling a Universal Child Allowance or More Generous Child Tax Credit
Tennessee Consortium on Research, Evaluation & Development, February 2016: The Tennessee Achievement School District: Race, History, and the Dilemma of Public Engagement
The Center For Popular Democracy, February 2016: State Takeovers of Low-Performing Schools: A Record of Academic Failure, Financial Mismanagement & Student Harm and Community Schools: Transforming Struggling Schools into Thriving Schools
The Century Foundation, February 9, 2016: A New Wave of School Integration: Districts and Charters Pursuing Socioeconomic Diversity and How Racially Diverse Schools and Classrooms Can Benefit All Students
Budget & Tax Center, NC Justice Center, January 2016: Tax Cuts Hurt Education For All
Center for American Progress, January 2016: Examining Quality Across the Preschool-to-Third Grade Continuum
Preston C. Green III, University of Connecticut; Bruce D. Baker, The State University of New Jersey – Rutgers University, New Brunswick/Piscataway; Joseph Oluwole, Montclair State University; Julie F. Mead, University of Wisconsin – Madison (2016): Are We Heading Toward a Charter School Bubble?: Lessons from the Subprime Mortgage Crisis
North Carolina State Board of Education, January 6, 2016: Teacher Evaluation School Year 2014 – 2015
