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Betheny Gross

Principal, CRPE

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Background

Betheny Gross is a Principal at CRPE. She is the former Research Director at WGU Labs and a former Senior Research Analyst, and previously served as Research Director at CRPE. Dr. Gross has examined evidence and outcomes of district and state reform across the country. She led CRPE’s national study of systemic efforts to support the implementation of personalized learning.

betheny@uw.edu
Research Areas

Publications

Student Mental Health and Well-Being: A Review of Evidence and Emerging Solutions

In the summer of 2022, the Center on Reinventing Public Education convened a panel of education and youth development experts to take stock of recent...
Betheny Gross
Principal, CRPE
Laura Hamilton
Senior Director of Education Measurement and Assessment

The Promise and Challenges of Pandemic Innovation in High Schools

This report summarizes what we observed from a survey of New England high schools as they navigated the uncertainty of the pandemic.
Betheny Gross
Principal, CRPE
Sarah McCann
Senior Project Manager, CRPE

“Creativity requires freedom”: What will it take to create space within our education system to think and design creatively?

How do we help schools prevent “back to normal” inertia and fuel change?
Sunanna Chand
Executive Director, The Reinvention Lab at Teach For America
Betheny Gross
Principal, CRPE

Surging enrollment in virtual schools during the pandemic spurs new questions for policymakers

During the 2020–21 school year, a large share of students opted to enroll in established, full-time virtual schools. Our analysis of federal enrollment data suggests...
Betheny Gross
Principal, CRPE

How Has the Pandemic Affected Students’ Social-Emotional Well-Being? A Review of the Evidence to Date

This report is part of a series that aims to provide a definitive account of the best available evidence on how the COVID-19 pandemic has...
Betheny Gross
Principal, CRPE
Robin Lake
Director, CRPE

Curricula on the cutting-room floor: What are we learning about high school priorities, scope, and goals?

This year has been an endless stream of hard choices for teachers. Perhaps the most consequential of these is what curriculum they will cover amid...
Betheny Gross
Principal, CRPE

School Districts Across the Nation Plan for An Uncertain Year Ahead

This brief gives a snapshot of how school districts across the country are currently planning for fall 2020, how they are planning for contingencies of...
Betheny Gross
Principal, CRPE
Alice Opalka
Research Analyst

How 11 states are using emergency federal funds to make improvements in college and career access

The Governor’s Emergency Education Relief Fund (GEER I and II) gave states $4.25 billion in discretionary federal dollars to support K–12 schools, higher education, and...
Georgia Heyward
Senior Research Analyst
Betheny Gross
Principal, CRPE

How Six School Systems are Responding to Disrupted Schooling: Will It Be Enough?

This report examines how six school systems tried to address the academic consequences of disrupted learning in the 2020-2021 school year.
Michael DeArmond
Principal
Betheny Gross
Principal, CRPE
Paul Hill
Founder, CRPE

States and School Systems Can Act Now to Dismantle Silos Between High School, College, and Career

We interviewed K–12, state, and nonprofit leaders who have been focused on redesigning education and career pathways about how their work has changed in the...
Georgia Heyward
Senior Research Analyst
Sarah McCann
Senior Project Manager, CRPE
Betheny Gross
Principal, CRPE

A missing link to help students emotionally and academically

Fifty-six percent of students say they are more stressed about school than before the pandemic. Eighty-three percent report a physical symptom of stress—like difficulty sleeping,...
Michael DeArmond
Principal
Betheny Gross
Principal, CRPE

The Biden COVID stimulus: Big spending can bring big liabilities

K–12 public education has won the lottery in the current coronavirus stimulus bill, with a $123 billion bailout package—more than six times the size of...
Paul Hill
Founder, CRPE
Betheny Gross
Principal, CRPE

School Reopening Trends Offer Districts the Opportunity to Start Planning Beyond the Pandemic

Our latest analysis of school district learning models from March 1 to March 13 finds that a clear majority—57 percent—of the nation’s school districts report...
Betheny Gross
Principal, CRPE
Alice Opalka
Research Analyst

How Schools Adapt during the Pandemic Can Reshape Adolescent Learning Experiences for Generations

This brief, informed by interviews with school and system leaders in the New England region, suggests some efforts to reinvent schools before the pandemic have...
Betheny Gross
Principal, CRPE
Georgia Heyward
Senior Research Analyst
Sarah McCann
Senior Project Manager, CRPE

U-Turn: Surge of COVID Cases Reverses Reopening Progress in America’s School Districts

Our December review of a statistically representative sample of 477 districts found 31 percent are operating in fully remote learning—a larger percentage than at any...
Betheny Gross
Principal, CRPE
Alice Opalka
Research Analyst

One Step Forward, One Step Back: Public Health Fears Keep America’s School Districts on a Reopening Treadmill

This brief gives an update on our nationally representative sample of school district reopening plans.
Betheny Gross
Principal, CRPE
Alice Opalka
Research Analyst

Support Every Student: Lessons from Five Charter Schools on Effective Special Education During the Pandemic

In-depth case studies of five charter schools reveal lessons learned on educating students with disabilities remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Lanya McKittrick
Senior Research Analyst
Betheny Gross
Principal, CRPE
Sivan Tuchman
Research Analyst
Sean Gill
Research Analyst

As many school districts reopen virtually, the opportunity gap widens for students living in poverty

As students and teachers begin the new school year, the opportunity gap for students living in poverty is likely to be wider than ever.
Betheny Gross
Principal, CRPE
Alice Opalka
Research Analyst

Getting Back to School: An Update on Plans from Across the Country

This brief gives a snapshot from August 17–21 of how school districts across the country are planning for fall 2020.
Betheny Gross
Principal, CRPE
Alice Opalka
Research Analyst

School Districts Across the Nation Plan for An Uncertain Year Ahead

This brief gives a snapshot from July 27-31 of how school districts across the country are currently planning for fall 2020.
Betheny Gross
Principal, CRPE
Alice Opalka
Research Analyst
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