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.
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.