Can career and technical education help improve K12 education without replicating the inequities of its past?

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The 2025 Reconciliation Act, or “One Big Beautiful Bill,” creates a federal school choice program offering tax credits for donations to Scholarship Granting Organizations that fund private-school tuit...

Our reporting has shown how easily people — some with questionable backgrounds — have founded their own private schools in barns, strip malls and other places. That led us to an experiment: If the hur...

University of Colorado Boulder Associate Professor and Co-Director of A Queer Endeavor Bethy Leonardi, along with PhD Candidate Zander Nowell, speak with MIchele Moses and Amy Farley about the nationa...

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...

A new analysis finds that multilingual learners with disabilities are more likely to graduate from high school and enroll in college if they attend school with a lot of other students who have this du...

Once the darling of policy wonks who aimed to apply free market-style approaches to public education, social impact bonds are taking up much less airtime these days.

Higher ed spends more money on educating students from affluent families. Two researchers tried, but failed, to find a justifiable reason why.

A Heritage Foundation report proposes to end Head Start, concluding that the program does not improve school readiness or produce lasting benefits, spends more per child than alternatives, fails to pr...

A new brief shares research evidence to inform high school reforms.

NEPC Fellows who have spent their careers studying the subject have been raising serious concerns about recent efforts to characterize and criticize DEI on campus.

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Even as efforts to limit curricula addressing gender, race, and sexual orientation made the rounds, seven states were approving efforts to expand how students learn about the world around them.

A new working paper chronicles the unprecedented growth of state-funded pre-K between 2002 and 2024.

American teachers already spend more time working than do their peers in other nations. A new framework calls for education policies to address this reality.

A new report from NCTQ evaluates how well university-based teacher education programs prepare candidates to teach reading and calls for stronger alignment with its preferred approach to reading instru...

A new study finds that LGBTQ+ students are more likely than cisgender peers to aspire to earn four-year degrees, even as they are significantly more likely to face bullying and discrimination in high ...

In Florida, the attorney general says he won’t enforce laws preventing religious charter schools.

August 18th webinar on fostering student belonging and deeper learning is the second installment of a free webinar series that aims to harness research results to improve student engagement.

As policymakers and educators seek to improve student achievement, engagement, and equity, a new report analyzes contemporary disputes about effective mathematics instruction. Although it concludes th...

A new essay takes stock of research on current far-right education policies and movements.

A new analysis proposes improvements to funding and regulating education for multilingual learners.

A report from the Progressive Policy Institute presents an insider account of how Mississippi’s K–3 education system evolved over roughly two decades. This review focuses on the report’s description o...

As Chase Woodruff reports for Colorado Newsline, although last night's elections saw some left-leaning challengers do well, most notably Melat Kiros' ouster of longtime incumbent Rep. Diana DeGette in...

A new study raises questions about state mandates requiring principal evaluations to take into account the test scores of students at their schools.

A new study finds that larger and more rigorous math courseloads in high school are associated with higher likelihoods of college enrollment, especially for students from low-income families.

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Results for the 2026 primary election in Colorado. Data provided by the Colorado Secretary of State's Office and visualized by The Associated Press.

As activism to curb ed tech makes news around the nation, decades of NEPC’s Commercialism in Education Research Unit research can help guide needed reforms.

Bill Mathis, Senior Policy Advisor for NEPC and bona fide gentleman, will be remembered for his many contributions to educational policy, research, leadership, and equity.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

Three NEPC Fellows will be inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

A recent Supreme Court case opened the door to providing LGBTQ+ youth with conversion therapy in public schools, even in states where it’s now statutorily banned.

University of Wisconsin‑Madison Assistant Professor Christopher Saldaña speaks with Michael Rebell and Luisa Sanchez about the history of school finance adequacy litigation, highlighting how young adv...