Lessons from School Leaders: Managing Debates on CRT and AP African American Studies
The debate over how schools should teach about race heightened this week when the College Board released a framework for a new Advanced Placement course in African-American studies that reduced some of the content from a pilot version — content supported by hundreds of Black scholars and progressives but criticized by prominent conservatives. The national fervor over the content of […]
Three Years of Studying Charters in Washington State: What We Learned
The pandemic prompted major shifts in public school enrollment and models for learning in the Pacific Northwest and across the nation. After three years, our study of these effects on Washington state’s charter schools has generated a number of important findings, which we invite you to explore now that our project has ended. We sought […]
Black Education Leaders say Leaving Public Schools Can Help Save Our Kids
For Black children, the public education system is like a dirty fish tank. They’re swimming in toxic conditions like discriminatory discipline and low expectations. But before the water can be treated, those students need to be moved to a clean bowl where they can live and breathe. Then, it’s time to clean out the tank. […]
Reinventing Education: Following AI and Pandemic Recovery in 2023
Happy 2023! Did you, like me, take time over the break to play with one of the new artificial intelligence bots? I asked ChatGPT to write a blog in the style of Robin Lake on the topic of helping students recover from the impacts of Covid-19 and related school closures. Here’s what it offered: As […]
CRPE Receives $9M Walton Grant to Boost Research
The Center on Reinventing Public Education, now at ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, will study pandemic recovery and district redesign.
Declining enrollment and school closures: How districts can better manage a difficult process
Families, teachers, and community members whose schools are closed often pay a big price. But thoughtfully structuring the problem and carefully designing the process for deciding on a solution can help reduce public conflict.
‘It really is a community.’ Parents say Summit charter schools pivoted well in the pandemic
As schools begin to move past the crises caused by the pandemic, Summit Public Schools in Washington state may have more bright spots than other school operators.
With better policies – and a little help – career-relevant education can move from the exception to the rule in schools
Administrators from eight districts who nurtured new learning options reflect on what worked – and what’s still needed.
Can districts rise to the challenge of new NAEP results? Outlook’s not so good
If schools & families revert to pre-pandemic habits, millions of kids may never recover lost knowledge and skills.
District leaders eager to tackle learning loss face ongoing challenges
Administrators wanted to tackle learning loss. Other needs came first.