Current Research – Center on Reinventing Public Education

Navigating political tensions over schooling: Findings from the fall 2022 American School District Panel survey

Public schooling has always been politically fraught, but current disagreements over issues related to race, sexuality, gender, and Covid-19 have reached a tipping point. According to a new report from the Center on Reinventing Public...

A review: What we learned after 3 years of studying charters in Washington state

The pandemic prompted major shifts in public school enrollment and models for learning in the Pacific Northwest and across the nation. After three years, our study of these effects on Washington state’s charter schools has...

Black education leaders: Leaving public schools can help save our kids

For Black children, the public education system is like a dirty fish tank. They’re swimming in toxic conditions like discriminatory discipline and low expectations. But before the water can be treated, those students need to...

Reinventing education: Following AI and pandemic recovery in 2023

Happy 2023! Did you, like me, take time over the break to play with one of the new artificial intelligence bots? I asked ChatGPT to write a blog in the style of Robin Lake on...

CRPE receives $9M Walton grant to boost research

The Center on Reinventing Public Education, now at ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, will study pandemic recovery and district redesign.

‘It really is a community.’ Parents say Summit charter schools pivoted well in the pandemic

As schools begin to move past the crises caused by the pandemic, Summit Public Schools in Washington state may have more bright spots than other school operators.

With better policies – and a little help – career-relevant education can move from the exception to the rule in schools

Administrators from eight districts who nurtured new learning options reflect on what worked – and what’s still needed.

Can districts rise to the challenge of new NAEP results? Outlook’s not so good

If schools & families revert to pre-pandemic habits, millions of kids may never recover lost knowledge and skills.

District leaders eager to tackle learning loss face ongoing challenges

Administrators wanted to tackle learning loss. Other needs came first.

Back to school, but not caught up: After school reopenings, administrators eager to tackle learning loss continue to face challenges

In this report, we update our ongoing research on five school systems to reveal the academic, social, and political challenges posed by the pandemic and what system leaders and their staff are doing to address...