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At CRPE, we study how the Covid-19 pandemic reshaped public education and what it will take for schools to recover and adapt. As a driving force in tracking the pandemic’s impact, we analyzed how districts responded to closures, remote learning, enrollment shifts, and the urgent needs of students and families. Our research continues to examine the lasting effects on learning, equity, and engagement, as well as how schools are using recovery efforts—from ESSER investments to new instructional models—to address unfinished learning and reimagine support for students. Through this work, we aim to understand not only how schools can recover lost ground, but also how they can build more resilient and responsive systems for the future.

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Teaching Recovery? Three Years In, School System Leaders Report the Pandemic Weakened Instruction

Lydia Rainey, Paul Hill, Robin Lake

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

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CRPE and the Walton Family Foundation Fund Nine Rapid Research Studies to Explore the Pandemic’s Impact on Young Adults

With generous support from the Walton Family Foundation, the Center on Reinventing Public Education has chosen to fund nine quick-turn research projects that will study how Covid-19 has affected high school students and recent graduates.

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How States Can Support Ongoing Academic Recovery

Robin Lake, Travis Pillow

This piece was originally published on EdNote, the Education Commission of the States’ blog. School closures, quarantines and staffing uncertainties have contributed to the biggest math and reading declines our country has seen in more than two decades.

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Addressing Pandemic Fallout: New Call for Proposals

Robin Lake

Test scores have plummeted and racial disparities are widening. Student misbehavior and adult political disputes are disrupting teaching. Mental health needs are soaring.

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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.

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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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Navigating Political Tensions over Schooling: Findings from the Fall 2022 American School District Panel Survey

Ashley Jochim, Melissa Kay Diliberti, Heather Schwartz, Kate Destler, Paul Hill

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.

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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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