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Personalized Learning at a Crossroads

This report explores the early promise and challenges in personalized learning and calls for more system-level supports and strategies for innovation.

We Need to Prepare A New Generation of Education Systems Leaders

For more than a year, the U.S. Secretary of Education and the president of the American Federation of Teachers have been engaged in a bitter dispute about the public and private purposes of education in...

How Can Public School Students Get the Personalization that Private Schools Offer?

Seattleites are familiar with this 48-year-old picture of two teenagers in the basement of Lakeside, a local private school. It shows Bill Gates and Paul Allen—who would later found Microsoft—working at computer terminals linked to...

Yes, Charter Schools Inflict Some Costs on Districts. But Districts’ Financial Problems Are Far Deeper Than That

I recently wrote an essay explaining fundamental flaws in a paper by Gordon Lafer, a professor and longtime labor union analyst who published through an Oakland, California–based think tank called In the Public Interest. I...

School funds should follow students, not protect institutions

In a recent Chalkboard blog post, Helen Ladd and John Singleton summarize their study of how much it costs school districts when children move to charter schools. Much of the analysis focuses on the city...

4 Ways a Big New Study on School Districts, Finances & Charter Schools Is Misleading California Parents & Communities

A new report from In the Public Interest, a think tank based in Oakland, California, is getting some attention right now for purporting to show how three districts in the state are “bearing the cost...

Connecting the Dots: What Do These Examples Imply for System Change?

Twenty-five years ago, CRPE was founded on the idea of the school as the locus of change. Today we are reexamining our old assumptions in light of new technical possibilities, changes in the economy, and...

Solving for Complex Learners: NYC Autism Charter School

Curating a Portfolio of Student Pathways: Workspace Education

How Can We Get Serious About Successful Pathways for Every Student?

Twenty-five years ago, CRPE was founded on the idea of the school as the locus of change. We asked, “How can public oversight and funding be made compatible with school effectiveness?” Working outward to identify...