Shifting students: Pandemic-era enrollment changes present challenges and opportunities for Washington’s public charters
CRPE’s September 2022 brief, “Shifting students: A look at Washington State school enrollment from 2020 to 2022,” found that fewer students were enrolled in the state’s traditional public schools in 2021-22 than 2019-20, while enrollment in private schools, home schools, and public charter schools increased during that time. This accompanying brief provides more detail on […]
Shifting students: A look at Washington State school enrollment from 2020 to 2022
As in other states, enrollment in Washington State’s public schools has shifted during the Covid-19 pandemic. This brief examines enrollment changes in Washington’s district, charter, private, and home schools from September 2019 to September 2021. It uses student headcount data from the Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Washington State Board of […]
Reporter’s Guide: Questions for assessing how your state or district is tracking pandemic impact and recovery
To accompany CRPE’s inaugural State of the American Student report in 2022, researchers and experts assembled a guide with critical questions for media to consider as they follow the recovery — and we hope, the reinvention — of U.S. schools from the Covid-19 pandemic. This is a working document, and we welcome comments and feedback. Contact […]
From pods to public schools: Bringing the best of pandemic learning to traditional systems
For more than two years, CRPE has studied the practices and impact of pandemic learning pods in hopes of identifying lessons that can be applied more broadly to improving public education for all students. In June 2022, CRPE convened a cross-sector group of education leaders—practitioners, funders, policymakers, researchers, and community advocates. Drawing from examples of […]
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.
Pods in Action: KaiPod Learning
A new company sustaining the pandemic pod model offers flexibility to teachers, students and parents.
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.
