How Eight Rural Districts Came Together to Redefine Postsecondary Success in the Midst of a Pandemic
This brief explores how eight rural Colorado school districts increased youth access to internship and dual enrollment opportunities in the 2020-21 school year.
Promising Practices Drive Progress: Closing Learning Gaps for Students with Disabilities
This brief highlights six promising practices for serving students with disabilities after the pandemic.
New England Profiles of Innovation | Map Academy
This profile of Map Academy from CRPE and the Christensen Institute details the school’s practices that have proven successful, how they have adapted in the face of the pandemic, and how other school communities can begin to make their systems and structures more responsive to students’ needs and interests.
How Six School Systems are Responding to Disrupted Schooling: Will It Be Enough?
This report examines how six school systems tried to address the academic consequences of disrupted learning in the 2020-2021 school year.
States and School Systems Can Act Now to Dismantle Silos Between High School, College, and Career
We interviewed K–12, state, and nonprofit leaders who have been focused on redesigning education and career pathways about how their work has changed in the last year and what their priorities are as the nation emerges from the pandemic.
COVID-19 Revealed New Roles for Cities to Create a Continuum of Support for Youth and Families. They Shouldn’t End with the Pandemic
This brief examines the involvement of the 100 largest cities in the U.S. in creating learning pods during the pandemic.
New England Profiles of Innovation | Common Ground High School
This profile of Common Ground High School in New Haven details the school’s practices that have made it successful, how they have adapted in the face of the pandemic, and how other school communities can begin conversations about wielding student voice and agency to innovate.
School Reopening Trends Offer Districts the Opportunity to Start Planning Beyond the Pandemic
Our latest analysis of school district learning models from March 1 to March 13 finds that a clear majority—57 percent—of the nation’s school districts report offering full-time in-person learning.
The kids are (really) not alright: A synthesis of COVID-19 student surveys
This brief from the Evidence Project synthesizes student surveys from the 2020–21 school year.
Is it Safe to Reopen Schools?
This report examines the collective findings of more than 120 studies and considers their implications for current decisions on reopening schools.
