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Innovation and the Future of Learning

At CRPE, we study how public education can evolve to meet the challenges and opportunities of a rapidly changing world. Our research on innovation and the future of learning examines how schools are rethinking teaching and learning models—from personalized and competency-based approaches to the use of technology and AI—to better prepare students for life beyond school. We investigate how these innovations take shape in real contexts, what barriers and enablers schools encounter, and how systems can support sustainable change. Across this work, we aim to understand how schools and communities can design learning environments that are more equitable, adaptable, and responsive to the diverse needs of students.

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SEL, Mentoring, Career Prep: Schools That Deliver What Parents Say They Want

Chelsea Waite

This piece was originally published in The 74. Waite: Changing the DNA of how schools educate students is hard, long-term work.

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Twenty Years of Testing: A Teacher Looks Back; New Reports Look Forward

Christine Pitts

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.

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Pandemic Devastation Demands More Student-Centered Learning Practices

Travis Pillow, Jon Alfuth

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.

  • Research Reports    

Student Mental Health and Well-Being: A Review of Evidence and Emerging Solutions

Betheny Gross, Laura Hamilton

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.

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Business as Usual Won’t Get Our Kids Reading

Lakisha Young

Lakisha Young explains how Oakland REACH is training parents to be literacy tutors.

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New Frames for New Constituencies

Robin Lake

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.

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Arizona Digs into Data to Help Students with Disabilities—Other States Should Follow Suit

Karla Phillips-Krivickas

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.

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Black Education Leaders say Leaving Public Schools Can Help Save Our Kids

Travis Pillow, Jennifer Poon

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.

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Reinventing Education: Following AI and Pandemic Recovery in 2023

Robin Lake

Happy 2023! Did you, like me, take time over the break to play with one of the new artificial intelligence bots?

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CRPE Receives $9M Walton Grant to Boost Research

CRPE Staff, Erin Richards

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

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