Rebecca Wolfe is the founder of Threadwell Solutions and a consultant for the Center on Reinventing Public Education.
Previously, Rebecca served as the inaugural Vice President of Impact and Improvement at KnowledgeWorks and Associate Vice President at Jobs for the Future (JFF), where she developed and ran the Students at the Center initiative and the Student-Centered Research Learning Collaborative. Dr. Wolfe works with mission-driven organizations to amplify social impact through research, strategy, practice, and innovation. She has contributed to national efforts to advance innovative, personalized learning and equitable systems transformation through research, communications, impact assessment, and strategic implementation. Her latest publications include the internationally influential report “Can’t Get There From Here: A Framework for the Start, Spread, and Scale of Bottom-Up Innovation in Education” (Hoover Institution) and a chapter on systems alignment in “Competency-Based Practices: Factors for Successful Implementation” (Solution Tree, forthcoming).
American public education stands at a precarious moment where states are now in the driver’s seat. Pandemic-related learning losses and enrollment declines, met with a federal retreat and fiscal pressures, leave schools and districts facing an uncertain landscape.
BROWSE BY TOPIC What Comes Next? Rewriting the Federal Role Burning the Playbook: Bold Reform Proposals States in the Driver’s Seat: New Rules, New Roles The District’s Role: Clarity Amidst Chaos Rethinking the Teacher Workforce Making Choice Work for Families WHAT COMES NEXT?
The Current Crisis Five years after the pandemic disrupted education, public schools are still struggling to recover. Achievement gaps have widened, student performance is in decline, and many schools have reverted to an outdated, ineffective system that fails to meet today’s challenges.