Despite Staff Shortages, Few Districts Are Making Teaching More Appealing
The exact cause of teacher shortages is still up for debate. Some experts argue that shortages are localized, while others say that the lack of teachers is due to low unemployment and other factors. Regardless, school systems face big challenges with their teacher workforce, including finding enough teacher candidates and retaining the teachers they have, […]
SEL, Mentoring, Career Prep: Schools That Deliver What Parents Say They Want
This piece was originally published in The 74. Waite: Changing the DNA of how schools educate students is hard, long-term work. A diverse set of 251 schools are showing what that work looks like. In the aftermath of the pandemic, lawmakers, researchers and advocates have expended enormous efforts to determine what the American public, particularly […]
Twenty Years of Testing: A Teacher Looks Back; New Reports Look Forward
New research on the effectiveness of federal K-12 policies is part of national effort to improve testing and accountability mandates In 2009, I was a third grade teacher. I remember preparing for my annual evaluation with my principal, which included an observation of my classroom, my weekly lesson plans, and my students’ end-of-year test scores. […]
Addressing Pandemic Fallout: New Call for Proposals
Test scores have plummeted and racial disparities are widening. Student misbehavior and adult political disputes are disrupting teaching. Mental health needs are soaring. And more graduates are opting out of immediate college enrollment, bypassing the traditional path into America’s professional workforce – potentially for good. To address such urgent developments, the Center on Reinventing Public […]
Pandemic Devastation Demands More Student-Centered Learning Practices
This article was originally published on Ed Post. After three disrupted school years, America’s K-12 learners collectively have significant unfinished learning and unmet mental health needs. While educators are working hard to help their students, our school systems simply aren’t designed to address gaps this large. The urgency to address the wildly disparate and varying needs of […]
Student Mental Health and Well-Being: A Review of Evidence and Emerging Solutions
In the summer of 2022, the Center on Reinventing Public Education convened a panel of education and youth development experts to take stock of recent efforts to address students’ mental health and well-being and to reestablish core elements of social and emotional learning (SEL) in schools. CRPE initially convened a group of experts in 2021 […]
Business as Usual Won’t Get Our Kids Reading
Lakisha Young explains how Oakland REACH is training parents to be literacy tutors.
New Frames for New Constituencies
This commentary is a response to the Center on Reinventing Public Education’s State of the American Student project, an effort launched in fall 2022 to track and report on pandemic recovery and school reimagining efforts over the next five years. In a new collection of essays about improving American education published by Opportunity America, CRPE Director Robin Lake argues that […]
Arizona Digs into Data to Help Students with Disabilities—Other States Should Follow Suit
This commentary is a response to the Center on Reinventing Public Education’s State of the American Student project, an effort launched in fall 2022 to track and report on pandemic recovery and school reimagining efforts over the next five years. With two years of year-end assessment data in our hands, state leaders know that the impact of […]
Parent Navigators Are Worth the Investment for School Choice Supporters
Senior writer and innovation fellow explains Florida’s proposed “choice navigator” program and why school choice advocates should support funding the position.