Building Effective Relationships with a Teacher-Family-Student Triangle
The COVID-19 pandemic has thrust parents into a new role with their kids: helping them organize their days and weeks, tracking what assignments are due, and providing instructional, social-emotional, and technical support. For schools to have effective working relationships with parents as co-teachers, they must look beyond the traditional teacher-student relationship, and they must manage […]
Schools Can Help Parents by Setting Clear Expectations
In March, schools started to roll out school closure plans in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. For families, the last few months have felt like a roller coaster as they tried to adjust to the everchanging new realities. In May, we interviewed 33 parents, including 7 who were also educators, to gain insight into these […]
Lessons from Remote Learning: Parent Perspectives
This spring’s school closures thrust parents into a new role as co-educators. Countless stories have emerged of how parents are overwhelmed and how some have “opted out” of school. We at CRPE wanted to dig deeper—to find out more about parent experiences and to help schools and districts capture lessons learned. In May 2020, we […]
The Digital Divide Among Students During COVID-19: Who Has Access? Who Doesn’t?
Our research shows districts in rural areas have been significantly less likely to expect teachers to provide instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic. Schools with higher concentrations of students from low-income households have been less likely to expect teachers to provide real-time lessons, track students’ attendance, or grade their assignments. One critical driver of these disparities […]
Too Many Schools Leave Learning to Chance During the Pandemic
We knew the sudden shift to remote learning would be hard. For the last two months CRPE followed a group of large, mostly urban school systems as they clarified their expectations for teaching students, tracking attendance, and monitoring learning. These districts are prominent in the national debate and serve nearly one of every six public […]
This Is No Time for Nuance
At CRPE we take pride in research and ideas that are logical, uncommon, and nuanced. We often eschew easy or simplistic solutions. We prefer to take time to think, listen, and consider. We don’t like saying the obvious or the expected. We believe that actions and results are more important than statements. The past 10 days […]
Districts Are Missing an Opportunity to Innovate as Most Take Traditional Approaches to Summer School
Note from the authors: We share our most recent COVID-19 findings during a critical moment, as the recurring impact of systemic violence against Black people devastates our communities and the nation. As we work to inform efforts to build a more equitable education system, we must acknowledge the pain wrought by these injustices. After three […]
How COVID-19 Is Forcing Innovation in High School-Industry Partnerships
Everything about education changed in the spring of 2020. School partnerships with industry were no different. Schools had to rethink internships, job shadows, and mentorships. But these disruptions have also forced new thinking that will have long-term consequences for how schools partner with industry to prepare students post-graduation. Some schools and districts (see inset below) […]
Four Steps States Can Take to Level the Remote Learning Playing Field
The COVID-19 crisis has laid bare some old truths: where you live and what school you attend has profound impacts on what students can expect to get out of public education. Some students get instruction from teachers while others don’t; some students choose from a multitude of personalized learning pathways while others get packets of […]
We Must Close the Gap Between Research and Policy in School Systems’ Responses to COVID-19
In times of crisis, knowledge must flow freely and quickly. The COVID-19 pandemic created just such a crisis in K-12 education. As our database on school districts’ response to the COVID shutdown shows, districts and states are struggling to mount effective responses and to plan for the possibility that a return to traditional schooling might […]
