The Tradeoff Between Teacher Wages and Layoffs to Meet Budget Cuts
This analysis shows that school districts faced with large budget gaps could avoid some or all teacher layoffs by rolling back salaries.
A Roadmap to Kick-Start Recovery in 2021: Six Principles for Summer Learning and Beyond
This paper presents school districts with six principles of summer learning that can guide pandemic recovery and planning for the summer, fall, and beyond.
How Much Have Students Missed Academically Because of the Pandemic? A Review of the Evidence to Date
This report is part of a series that aims to provide a definitive account of the best available evidence on how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected America’s students.
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.
