EPIC reports
Education Minnesota’s Educator Policy Innovation Center released its first paper on testing during a news conference at the Minnesota State Fair in 2015. Since then, our teacher-centered think tank has crafted research papers on equitable school funding, full-service community schools, universal pre-k, teacher recruitment and retention, student discipline, teacher training and early childhood education, with more in the works.
The pandemic and educator attrition
Minnesota Schools at a Breaking Point: Pandemic Stories From Educators Across the State (August 2022)
Disrupted learning
Disrupted Learning, COVID-19 and Public Education in Minnesota (January 2021)
Early care and education
Minnesota’s Birth-4 Care and Education System (January 2021)
Equitable school funding
Building an Equitable School System for All Students and Educators (May 2019)
- Executive Summary
- Educator Compensation and Work Environments
- Teacher Induction and Mentoring
- Infrastructure: The Physical State of Minnesota’s Schools
- The Need for Universal Preschool
- Interrupting Racism, Strengthening Communities and Accelerating Student Learning: The Need for Restorative Practices and Trauma-Informed Schools in Minnesota
- Teacher Preparation
- Equitably Meeting the Needs of the Whole Child: Minnesota’s Critical Need for Related Service Providers and Specialized Instructional Support Personnel
- Full-Service Community Schools
- Public Higher Education in Minnesota
- Improving Special Education Services in Minnesota Schools
Teacher prep programs
- The Merits of Teaching Preparation Grounded in Equity: Critical Components for Developing and Retaining Educators Who are Responsive to Minnesota’s Diverse and Complex Communities (February 2018)
- Teacher prep programs executive summary (February 2018)
- Teacher prep programs one-pager (February 2018)
Student discipline
- From Exclusionary to Restorative: An Intentional, Trauma-Sensitive Approach to Interrupting Racial Disparities, Reducing Violence, Strengthening Communities, and Accelerating Student Learning (March 2017)
- Student discipline executive summary (March 2017)
- Student discipline one-pager (March 2017)
Teacher recruitment and retention
- Smart Solutions to Minnesota’s Teacher Shortage: Developing and Sustaining a Diverse & Valued Educator Workforce (March 2016)
- Teacher recruitment & retention one-pager (March 2016)
- MetLife survey: Teacher dissatisfaction at an all-time high (2020)
Universal pre-kindergarten
- The Best Start for Students: Why Minnesota Needs Universal Pre-Kindergarten (January 2016)
- Universal pre-K one-pager (January 2016)
- See the benefits of pre-K programs in Minneapolis and White Earth!
Full-service community schools
- Our Communities, Our Schools: Closing the Opportunity Gap in Minnesota With Full-Service Community Schools (December 2015)
- Community schools report one-pager (December 2015)
- See Brooklyn Center’s full-service community schools in action!
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