CFUL opened Whitney M. Young Academy, a microschool designed to meet the individual needs of low-income, African American students.
The world is changing. It is long past time for public education to change as well.
Our current research centers on the changing education landscape in our post-pandemic world and how school systems can meet the ever-evolving needs of students. This includes work in innovative school solutions, responsive systems and policies, workforce innovation, community-led solutions, and the advent of AI.
CFUL opened Whitney M. Young Academy, a microschool designed to meet the individual needs of low-income, African American students.
This year’s Canopy data suggest schools are innovating is to design solutions to the problems most often faced by marginalized students and families.
This report complements our latest fall 2021 survey research from the American School District Panel with in-depth interviews of leaders on the ground in five school systems.
The African Leadership Group created a learning pod that in most cases not only helped students keep up but actually improved their academic performance over the 2020–21 school year.
When school buildings closed in March 2020, Community Works started offering more versatile programming options to meet the needs of their students.
The City of North Las Vegas funded education nonprofit Nevada Action to set up a microschool.
There have been countless challenges faced by American families with school-aged children during the COVID-19 pandemic. Among the many challenges specifically relating to education has been ensuring children had access to a challenging academic curriculum....
Survey results show there is potentially a robust market for learning pods, or similar arrangements such as microschools, hybrid homeschools, and homeschool cooperatives.
This report summarizes what we observed from a survey of New England high schools as they navigated the uncertainty of the pandemic.
This report offers the first in-depth look at families’ and educators’ experiences with pandemic pods.
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