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Lydia Rainey, Paul Hill, Lisa Chu, Daniel Silver

This report distills five years of research to understand how the pandemic reshaped public education. Drawing from over 100 reports and articles, we examine the crisis response, recovery efforts, and ongoing challenges facing schools today. Key Findings Crisis Response: Schools struggled to maintain instruction with little federal or state guidance, facing political conflicts, mental health crises, and reopening chaos.

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Running fast but not getting far: Five years of studying the pandemic’s impact on education

Lydia Rainey, Paul Hill, Lisa Chu, Daniel Silver

This report distills five years of research to understand how the pandemic reshaped public education. Drawing from over 100 reports and articles, we examine the crisis response, recovery efforts, and ongoing challenges facing schools today.

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Unfinished Business: What Must Come Next for Public Education, Five Years After Pandemic Shutdowns

Robin Lake, Paul Hill

The Current Crisis Five years after the pandemic disrupted education, public schools are still struggling to recover. Achievement gaps have widened, student performance is in decline, and many schools have reverted to an outdated, ineffective system that fails to meet today’s challenges.

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In Search of Opportunity: Can Families Use Education Choice to Secure More of What They Want?

Ashley Jochim

As education choice programs expand, the promise of securing better educational opportunities remains unevenly realized for many families. This report examines the challenges families face and offers practical solutions to help education choice programs deliver on their potential. 

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Promising progress, fragile foundations: A five-year analysis of school innovation, 2019-2024

Chelsea Waite, Janette Avelar

Over the past five years, the Canopy Project has documented innovations in K-12 education, uncovering how schools are addressing systemic challenges and envisioning the future of learning.

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AI is Evolving, but Teacher Prep is Lagging: A First Look at Teacher Preparation Program Responses to AI

Steven Weiner, Robin Lake, Jessica Rosner

AI has transformed the education landscape, but are teacher preparation programs keeping pace? In CRPE’s latest report, we surveyed leaders from schools of education to understand how their faculty and preservice teachers are engaging with AI, their views on its long-term impact, and how institutions are embedding AI into their curricula.

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State Secrets: How Transparent Are State School Report Cards About the Effects of COVID?

Morgan Polikoff, Nadja Michel-Herf, Janette Avelar, Travis Pillow, Heather Casimere

How easy would it be for a parent or advocate to compare student performance pre- and post-COVID? The short answer: in most states, it’s not easy at all. 

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