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2020

NCDPI, August 2020 2018-19 Charter Schools Performance Framework Report

NPE, August 2020, Broken Promises: An Analysis of Charter School Closures from 1999-2017

NEA, Rankings of the States 2019 and Estimates of School Statistics 2020, June 2020

NCDPI, Highlights of the North Carolina Education Budget, May 2020 

Jane R. Wettach, William B. McGuire Clinical Professor of Law, Children’s Law Clinic, May 2020, School Vouchers in North Carolina 2014-2020

Public Funds,Public Schools, May 2020, A compilation of research showing that private school voucher programs are an ineffective use of public funds.

North Carolina Early Childhood Foundation, April 2020, FILLING THE DATA GAP: Recommendations for Population-Level Measures of Young Children’s Social Emotional Health in North Carolina

The National Institute for Early Education Research, March, 2020, The State of Preschool 2019

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, February 2020, Strong and Thriving Families 2019/2020 Prevention Resource Guide 

Public School Forum of North Carolina, February 2020, Top Education Issues of 2020

Public School Forum of North Carolina, February 2020, Local School Finance Study

The Trevor Project, Green, A.E., Price-Feeney, M. & Dorison, S.H. February, 2020, Suicidality Disparities by Sexual Identity Persist from Adolescence into Young Adulthood. 

National Center for Homeless Education January 2020, Federal Data Summary School Years 2015-2016 through 2017-2018. Education for Homeless Children and Youth 

Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and Yale Child Study Center, Yale University, USA, January 2020, High school students’ feelings: Discoveries from a large national survey and an experience sampling study

Torres, E. and Weissbourd, R. January, 2020, Do Parents Really Want School Integration?

2019

WestEd, December 2019,  Sound Basic Education for All: An Action Plan for North Carolina

NPE, December 2019, Still Asleep at the Wheel:How the Federal Charter Schools Program Results in a Pileup of Fraud and Waste

A Report of the Rural School and Community Trust, November 2019, Why Rural Matters: The Time Is Now 2018-2019

NCDPI, October 2019, NC Reform Model Annual Report Summary

Pearman, F. A., Curran, F. C., Fisher, B., & Gardella, J. (2019). Are Achievement Gaps Related to Discipline Gaps? Evidence From National Data.  

NCDPI Executive Summary, September 4, 2019, 2018–19 Performance and Growth of North Carolina Public Schools

Education Civil Rights Alliance, 2019, Gender Equity for Students

August 2019, 51st Annual PDK Poll, Frustration in the schools: Teachers speak out on pay, funding, and feeling valued

Southern Education Foundation, June 2019, School Privatization Policy Brief 

Erika K. Wilson, Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy, June 2019, The New White Flight

The Trevor Project, June 2019, National Survey on LGBTQ Youth Mental Health 2019

Carlson, Devin et al., June 2019, Socioeconomic-Based School Assignment Policy and Racial Segregation Levels: Evidence From the Wake County Public School System

The Annie E Casey Foundation, June 2019, 2019 Kids Count Data Book

Civil Rights Project UCLA, May 2019, Harming our Common Future: America’s Segregated Schools 65 Years after Brown

Public School Forum of North Carolina, May 2019, North Carolina’s “Average” Teacher Pay Myth

The Civil Rights Project at UCLA, May 2019, Harming Our Common Future: America’s Segregated Schools 65 Years After Brown

NC Child, May 2019, Expanding Healthcare to Shrink Poverty: The Safeguard Effects of Health Coverage on Family Financial Stability in North Carolina

Economic Policy Institute, May 2019, Toxic Stress and Children’s Outcomes

National Education Association, May 2019, State Charter Statutes NEA Report Card

National Education Association, April 2019, Rankings of the States 2018 and Estimates of School Statistics 2019

Economic Policy Institute, April 2019, Trends in the Teacher Wage and Compensation Penalties Through 2018

National Research for Early Education Institute, April 2019, State of Preschool Yearbooks 2018

North Carolina Healthy Food Retail Task Force, April 2019, Supporting Healthy Food Access in North Carolina

The Century Foundation, April 2019, Scoring States on Charter School Integration

EPI, March 26, 2019, The teacher shortage is real, large and growing, and worse than we thought

State Board of Education, March 2019, 2019 Legislative Expansion Budget Proposal

Ready Nation Council for a Strong America, March 2019, Want to Grow North Carolina’s Economy? Fix the Child Care Crisis

North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, March 2019, Highlights of the North Carolina Public School Budget 

American Civil Liberties Union, March 2019, COPS AND NO COUNSELORS How the Lack of School Mental Health Staff is Harming Students

North Carolina Public Schools, State Board of Education and Department of Public Instruction, March 2019, Report to the North Carolina General Assembly

NCDHHS, February 2019, NC Early Childhood Action Plan

Public School Forum of North Carolina, February 2019: 2019 Local School Finance Study

Youth Justice Project, February 2019: Racial Equity Report Cards

The National Institute for Early Education Research, January 2019: Barriers to Expansion of NC Pre-K: Problems and Potential Solutions

TN Research Alliance, January 2019: Do All Students  Have Access to Great Principals? 

NC Child, January 2019: Child Poverty in North Carolina: The Scope of the Problem

American Journal of Preventative Medicine, January 2019: Household Gun Ownership and Youth Suicide Rates at the State Level, 2005–2015

Duke University, January 2019, Evaluation of North Carolina Early Childhood Program among Middle School Students

National Association of State Boards of Education, January 2019: School Leaders’ Role in Empowering Teachers through SEL

Public School Forum of North Carolina, January 2019, Top 10 Education Issues for 2019

Human Rights Campaign, 2018, Latinx LGBTQ Youth Report

2018

NPE,September, 2018, Hijacked By Billionaires: How The Super Rich Buy Elections To Undermine Public Schools

Bureau of Labor Statistics, May 2018, Occupational Employment and Wages Teacher Assistants 

House Select Committee on School Safety, December 2018, Final Report to the 2018 Session of the 2017 General Assembly of North Carolina

NCDPI, NC State Board of Education, December 2018: Report to the North Carolina General Assembly Read to Achieve Data-State Level Summary 

UNESCO, 2018,  Global Education Monitoring Report 2019:
Migration, Displacement and Education – Building Bridges, not Walls.

William E. Copeland, PhD; Lilly Shanahan, PhD: Jennifer Hinesley, PsyD; et al,  Journal of the American Medical Association, November 9, 2018,  Association of Childhood Trauma Exposure With Adult Psychiatric Disorders and Functional Outcomes

Department of Psychology, University of Washington,  Olson KR, Durwood L, McLaughlin KA., Pediatrics, August 2018, Mental Health of Transgender Children Who Are Supported in Their Identities

Journal of Adolescent Health, October 2018, Chosen Name Use Is Linked to Reduced Depressive Symptoms, Suicidal Ideation, and Suicidal Behavior Among Transgender Youth

GLSEN, October 2018, The 2017 National School Climate Survey The Experiences of Lesbian, Gay,Bisexual, Transgender, and QueerYouth in Our Nation’s Schools 

North Carolina State University, Sara Weiss and D. T. Stallings, The William and Ida Friday Institute for Educational Innovation, Stephen Porter, College of Education, October 2018, Is Read to Achieve Making the Grade? An Assessment of North Carolina’s Elementary Reading Proficiency Initiative

Thomas B Fordham Institute, September 2018, Grade Inflation in High Schools

NC Early Childhood Foundation, 2018,  NC Voters Want the State to Double Funding for Early Childhood

Child Trends, September 2018, Poverty rate rising among America’s youngest children, particularly infants of color

The Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools, 2018, Confronting the Education Debt: We Owe Billions to Black, Brown and Low-income Students and Their Schools

Alliance for Educational Justice, 2018, We Came to Learn: A Call To Action for Police-Free Schools

Common Sense, September 2018, Social Media, Social Life: Teens Reveal Their Experiences

North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, September 2018, 2017–18 Performance and Growth of North Carolina Public Schools

Public School Forum, August 2018, 2018  North Carolina Education Primer

Center For Promise, June 2018, Disciplined and Disconnected: How Students Experience Exclusionary Discipline in Minnesota and the Promise of Non-Exclusionary Alternatives 

Robert C. Pianta and  Arya Ansari, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 2018: Does Attendance in Private Schools Predict Student Outcomes at Age 15? Evidence From a  Longitudinal Study

Human Rights Campaign, 2018,  2018 LGBTQ Youth Report

Center for Disease Control and Prevention, June 2018, Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance —United States, 2017

Annie E. Casey Foundation, June 2018, 2018 Kids Count Data Book: State Trends in Child Well-Being

National Institute for Early Education Resource, May 2018, The State of Preschool 2017

Journey for Justice Alliance, 2018, Failing Brown V Board A Continuous Struggle Against Inequity in Public Education

In the Public Intrest, May 2018, Breaking Point: The Cost of Charter Schools for Public School Districts

The Century Foundation, May 15, 2018, Diverse-by-Design Charter Schools

Public Education in North Carolina, May 2018, North Carolina Poverty, Education Closely Intertwined

Vox.com, May 2018  Interactive Teacher Pay Database

Youth Justice Project, April 2018: The State of Discipline in NC Schools

The League of Women Voters of the Lower Cape Fear (LWV-LCF), April 2018, NC Private Schools Receiving Vouchers: A Study of the Curriculum

The Center for Civil Rights Remedies, April 2018, Disabling Punishment:The Need for Remedies to the Disparate Loss of Instruction Experienced by Black Students with Disabilities

United States Department of Education Office for Civil Rights, April 2018,  New Release for 2018: 2015-2016 Civil Rights Data Collection School Safety and Climate 

Public School Forum of North Carolina, April 2018, Roadmap of Need 2018

National Education Association, April 2018, Rankings of the States 2017 and Estimates of School Statistics 2018

The National Center for Education Statistics, April 2018, National Assessment of Educational Progress.

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

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2017

Bureau of Labor Statistics, May 2017, Occupational Employment and Wages Teacher Assistants 

*NC Justice Center: Budget and Tax Center, 2017, 2017 Poverty Report How North Carolina Should be Taking Advantage of the Recovery

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

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

U.S. Census Bureau, June 2017: Public Education Finances: 2015

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

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

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 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

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