Study: How districts are responding to AI and what it means for the new school year
This piece was originally published in The 74. Districts are responding in divergent ways to artificial intelligence’s potential to reshape teaching and learning, and most have refrained from defining a districtwide stance for schools to navigate AI, according to a review by the Center on Reinventing Public Education at Arizona State University. By searching for district communications […]
New report: How the pandemic battered student engagement, attendance
Students are heading back to school this year under a cloud of discouraging test score declines in reading and math, an alarming widening of race- and income-based achievement gaps, and a sluggish pace of academic recovery. We at the Center on Reinventing Public Education are tracking and reporting on test scores, but we’re also keenly […]
Innovation spotlights: Case studies in high school redesign
Educators nationwide are forging their way in a landscape rocked by pandemic-induced disruptions. Training resources designed to spark new thinking among school staff often feel outdated—especially if they were published before 2020. To address this need, the Center on Reinventing Public Education at Arizona State University and the Center for Public Research and Leadership (CPRL) […]
Shockwaves and innovations: How nations worldwide are dealing with AI in education
This piece was originally published in The 74. Lake: Other countries are quickly adopting artificial intelligence in schools. Lessons from Singapore, South Korea, India, China, Finland and Japan. Rapid developments in artificial intelligence, especially generative AI (which is trained to analyze large amounts of data and can produce original content) have taken U.S. schools by […]
Unconventional private schools are attracting parents with tailored offerings. Public schools can, too.
Small learning environments that operate outside public schools—such as microschools, hybrid homeschools, and learning pods—exploded into broad public consciousness during the pandemic. While many children who were in these programs have now returned to public school, entrepreneurs continue to expand alternative learning options, and many families are interested in what they offer. One thing is abundantly […]
Review finds states slow to give guidance on how teachers, schools should use AI
This piece was originally published on The 74. Dusseault & Lee: Other than Hawaii’s, no education department has publicly focused on policies governing artificial intelligence in the classroom. Developments in artificial intelligence technology have exploded into the mainstream this year and welcomed people to summon text, audio and images with a few user-friendly AI prompts. The technology […]
Teachers want to innovate. Schools that don’t let them are losing out
This piece was originally published in The 74. Waite: Education entrepreneurs are taking their creativity and ingenuity to hybrid schools and microschools — and taking their students with them At the end of April, I attended a conference in Atlanta featuring a small but heterogenous group of self-described education entrepreneurs. It was the second year […]
CRPE, Walton fund 9 ‘rapid research’ studies to explore pandemic effects on teens, young adults
With generous support from the Walton Family Foundation, the Center on Reinventing Public Education has chosen to fund nine quick-turn research projects that will study how Covid-19 has affected high school students and recent graduates. The projects are the first to be commissioned by CRPE—with the help of a $9 million Walton grant—to spur critically […]
How states can support ongoing academic recovery
This piece was originally published on EdNote, the Education Commission of the States’ blog. School closures, quarantines and staffing uncertainties have contributed to the biggest math and reading declines our country has seen in more than two decades. The recent State of the American Student report from the Center for Reinventing Public Education describes the contours of the crisis […]
‘This changes everything:’ AI is about to upend teaching and learning
“In a matter of weeks or months, artificial intelligence tools will be your kid’s tutor, your teacher’s assistant and your family’s homework helper.” -Robin Lake
