Current Research – Center on Reinventing Public Education

School mask, vaccine mandates are mostly gone. But what if the virus comes back?

As 100 large districts gear up for a “normal” year, it’s not clear what will happen should another deadly COVID variant arise.

From pods to public schools: Bringing the best of pandemic learning to traditional systems

For more than two years, CRPE has studied the practices and impact of pandemic learning pods in hopes of identifying lessons that can be applied more broadly to improving public education for all students. In...

Remote learning options are shutting down as school reopens in fall 2022

Large districts more likely to keep pre-pandemic virtual programs than those created when Covid-19 closed schools and forced classes online

Student achievement gaps and the pandemic: A new review of evidence from 2021–2022

This report begins the second round of an updated series of papers that aim to provide a definitive account of the best available evidence on how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected America’s students.

Perspectives that bind: Reshaping partnerships in education

Partnerships between schools, families, and expanded learning providers are a powerful tool that could be used for lasting change in education.

“The most professionally satisfied I’ve been.” How could the best aspects of learning pod staffing be scaled up?

Pod staffing arrangements have the potential to be replicated at a much larger scale and in a way that endures beyond the pandemic.

Use of personalized learning platforms in one pandemic-era microschool: A case study

This paper poses the question of how personalized learning platforms might affect students’ academic, social, and emotional outcomes.

Oh, the places you’ll go—or not: Graduating seniors may be unprepared for the future

High schools must accelerate academic support and opportunities for several more waves of pandemic-era graduates.

Voice and choice: New England students highlight which pandemic-era changes should stay—and which should go

Research on the pandemic’s negative impact on student learning, peer-to-peer relationships, and teenagers’ mental health makes it easy to assume high schoolers are eager to “return to normal.” Yet recent conversations with high school students...