Remote learning options are shutting down as school reopens in fall 2022
Large districts more likely to keep pre-pandemic virtual programs than those created when Covid-19 closed schools and forced classes online
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.
Student achievement gaps and the pandemic: A new review of evidence from 2021–2022
This report begins the second round of an updated series of papers that aim to provide a definitive account of the best available evidence on how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected America’s students.
Perspectives that bind: Reshaping partnerships in education
Partnerships between schools, families, and expanded learning providers are a powerful tool that could be used for lasting change in education.
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
Pods in Action: KaiPod Learning
A new company sustaining the pandemic pod model offers flexibility to teachers, students and parents.
‘Do this!’ How Oakland parents are fighting for better schools — and a more responsive system
Lakisha Young writes about starting The Oakland REACH.
Pods in Action: The Oakland REACH
REACH’s story demonstrates the potential for community-based organizations to play a larger role in addressing both current challenges and longstanding iniquities in the public education system.
“The most professionally satisfied I’ve been.” How could the best aspects of learning pod staffing be scaled up?
Pod staffing arrangements have the potential to be replicated at a much larger scale and in a way that endures beyond the pandemic.
Use of personalized learning platforms in one pandemic-era microschool: A case study
This paper poses the question of how personalized learning platforms might affect students’ academic, social, and emotional outcomes.
