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Congratulations to NEPC Fellow @cmsaldana.bsky.social! bit.ly/4dTMwRe
New NEPC Review: Common Sense Institute Colorado report’s projected economic gains and private school enrollment increases are overstated and unsupported by evidence. bit.ly/4nIHKKT
My spouse tells me I’d better not spend our household money on beer. My brother owes me a hundred bucks, I tell him to just give me fifty bucks and two cases of beer. Will my spouse say to me, “That’s okay, because you didn’t actually buy beer with the money you were supposed to collect.”
Nope...
Devastating education news can come from far outside school policy: "Hungry children, canceled benefits: Arizona’s food stamp cuts are a warning for America."
SNAP cuts will likely impact kids' academic (and life) success more than any outcomes of the "Reading Wars."
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Scholars speak out about the administration’s dismissal of the National Science Board @nationalsciencebrd.bsky.social bit.ly/4nfoy7A
New NEPC Review: WILL’s report identifies real problems but misreads their causes, and offers overly simplistic policy solutions. bit.ly/3R68vNh
New policy brief from Kevin Welner, Carol Burris and @drprestongreen.bsky.social outlines legal risks for states and offers a path for them to preserve charter schools’ public accountability and civil rights protections. bit.ly/4u5Q751
Congratulations to NEPC Fellows Michael W. Apple, Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy, and William R. Penuel on their upcoming induction into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences @bryanbrayboy.bsky.social bit.ly/4tGku2i
This month's NEPC Talks Education podcast is here! @cmsaldana.bsky.social speaks with @susanna-loeb.bsky.social about the Stanford SCALE Initiative project bit.ly/49U7azu
According to a new analysis, the average combined public and private cost of raising a child from birth to age 18 is $502,152. bit.ly/4nfz9z5
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Forty-six states and the District of Columbia permit charter schools to open, and 33 states plus D.C. allow independently governed charter schools that the Supreme Court may soon declare to be non-sta...
NEPC Fellow Christopher Saldaña has been awarded a NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship to help support his work on ways that the capacity of school districts shapes their ability to negotiate relatio...
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As part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed in July 2025, the federal government created a nationwide tax credit for donations to scholarship-granting organizations that fund K–12 educational exp...
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The scholar members of the National Academy of Education are speaking out about proposed changes to requirements for receiving federal funds and the abrupt dismissal of the entire National Science Boa...
Under President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” food stamp applicants are fighting to prove eligibility and facing questions about birthday gifts sent over Zelle. A crisis in Arizona offers a wa...
University of Wisconsin‑Madison Assistant Professor Christopher Saldaña speaks with Susanna Loeb about the the recent release of Getting Down to Facts 3, a Stanford SCALE Initiative project that bring...
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A new analysis attempts to estimate the total public and private cost associated with raising children from 0 to age 18 and in the process, reveals inequities.
A WILL report examines Wisconsin’s extreme Black-White achievement gap in ELA/reading and argues that poverty, disability, and family instability, misrepresented as factors separate from systemic raci...
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Three NEPC Fellows will be inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
