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.
Data From 100 Large Urban Districts Show Half Facing Shortages in Key Positions. Fixing That Will Mean Rethinking Teaching & Working in Schools
Our analysis of district information and local media reports finds 93 of 100 large and urban districts have mentioned staffing shortages in the 2021-22 school year.
Special Education at a Crossroads: Ensuring Equity and Inclusion for Students with Disabilities
This brief outlines the ongoing challenges and offers recommendations to reshape how America’s schools serve students with disabilities.
Whack-A-Mole: School Systems Respond to Disrupted Learning in 2021
This report complements our latest fall 2021 survey research from the American School District Panel with in-depth interviews of leaders on the ground in five school systems.
Pods in Action: African Leadership Group
The African Leadership Group created a learning pod that in most cases not only helped students keep up but actually improved their academic performance over the 2020–21 school year.
Pods in Action: Community Works
When school buildings closed in March 2020, Community Works started offering more versatile programming options to meet the needs of their students.
Pods in Action: Southern Nevada Urban Micro Academy
The City of North Las Vegas funded education nonprofit Nevada Action to set up a microschool.
Lessons for Improving Curriculum from the COVID–19 Pandemic
There have been countless challenges faced by American families with school-aged children during the COVID-19 pandemic. Among the many challenges specifically relating to education has been ensuring children had access to a challenging academic curriculum. Whether children have been educated remotely or in hybrid settings, or whether they have been in a pod or homeschool, […]
The Demand Side of Alternative Education Products
Survey results show there is potentially a robust market for learning pods, or similar arrangements such as microschools, hybrid homeschools, and homeschool cooperatives.
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.
