Collaboration between CRPE, ASU informs new report on pandemic’s academic impacts
Carrie Sampson shares how she and other experts made sense of what we know and what we still need to find out about how pandemic-related disruptions affected student learning.
Enrollment drops, staff shortages cause budget whiplash for top school districts
The contrasting trends underscore the pandemic’s wildly variable impact on districts — and the key impact of enrollment on revenue
‘Do this!’ How Oakland parents are fighting for better schools — and a more responsive system
Lakisha Young writes about starting The Oakland REACH.
Oh, the places you’ll go—or not: Graduating seniors may be unprepared for the future
High schools must accelerate academic support and opportunities for several more waves of pandemic-era graduates.
Voice and choice: New England students highlight which pandemic-era changes should stay—and which should go
Research on the pandemic’s negative impact on student learning, peer-to-peer relationships, and teenagers’ mental health makes it easy to assume high schoolers are eager to “return to normal.” Yet recent conversations with high school students throughout New England reveal very different hopes for this period of recovery. Our researchers and those from Columbia University’s Center for […]
Many districts are doing less this summer to make up for lost learning
Even after an additional year to plan and more federal recovery dollars available, districts’ 2022 summer programs are mostly the same as last year.
How 100 large and urban districts are (and aren’t) engaging stakeholders
Districts are supposed to gather local feedback on how to spend their ESSER pandemic relief money. One year in, one out of three may not be complying.
‘The space and grace is evaporating:’ School leaders eager to tackle learning loss faced unexpected challenges this year. They’ll need help to lead everyone back on track
Headed into 2022-23, school administrators are going to have to pursue new strategies to make up for learning loss.
From a Lakota-focused microschool to service opportunities for kids with disabilities, innovations from 161 schools to aid marginalized students
This year’s Canopy data suggest schools are innovating is to design solutions to the problems most often faced by marginalized students and families.
Gut-check Moment for School Superintendents — Toxic Politics, Demands for New Services, Struggles to Deliver Basics Make ‘Impossible Job’ Harder than Ever
Amid all the concern about staffing shortages in America’s schools, the continued strain is showing up in another key place: at the top.