Beyond the Bell: Leveraging Community Assets for an Expanded Learning System
This essay explores ways to deliver more agile and responsive wraparound services and out-of-school learning opportunities for students.
Rethinking the Traditional High School-College-Career Continuum
This essay explores the systemic changes needed to ensure student access to meaningful pathways to college prep and career training.
To Serve Every Student Well, Design for the Tails, Not the Mean
This essay explores how an education system built to meet the needs of “square pegs” could benefit all students.
Learning in the Age of Agility: How U.S. Education Can Prepare Students to Solve the Problems of the Future
This essay introduces a set of ideas about how education can adapt to a rapidly changing world.
Thinking Forward: New Ideas for a New Era of Public Education
These essays rethink foundational aspects of the current education system and offer new ideas to shift the lens from schools to students.
A New School Takes Root in New Orleans—And Races Against Time
Twenty-five years ago CRPE was founded on the idea of the school as the locus of change. Today we are reexamining our old assumptions in light of new technical possibilities, changes in the economy, and a recognition that even the most effective schools may need to develop new approaches to better serve students whose needs […]
Working Smarter, Not Harder: Promising Local Strategies for Improving Charter School Teacher Supply
September’s jobs report gave us a picture of this year’s teacher shortfall compared to 2017. From last year to this, not much has changed. For some this could be good news—at least things aren’t getting worse—but we also know that teacher numbers haven’t returned to pre-2007 levels. The teacher shortage is a popular topic in […]
States Don’t Need to Wait on a Congressional Investigation to Improve Online Charter School Oversight
Once again, virtual charter schools are coming under heavy scrutiny. Last week, the Center for American Progress published a report that called for banning for-profit online charter school operators. Soon thereafter, two Democratic U.S. senators called for a Government Accountability Office investigation of virtual charter schools. While meaningful federal action might be unlikely under the […]
San Antonio ISD’s Innovations Offer National Lessons
The term “portfolio district” has taken on a life of its own these days. For some, it refers to places with a lot of charter schools and some coordination function. For others, it means having many district-run schools with themes. At CRPE, it’s neither of those. Rather, the portfolio strategy is what we often call […]
The Uncertain Future of Teaching
This essay explores the need for new models that expand who works with students and differentiate teaching roles to a far greater degree.