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Robin Lake, Bree Dusseault, Maddy Sims

The Center on Reinventing Public Education has announced its inaugural AI Fellowship Cohort, a group of visionary policymakers, system leaders, educators, researchers, funders, and tech experts who will collectively work to address the toughest challenges around AI in education. Education systems are at a critical crossroads with AI. New tools are emerging every day in a system with no coherent strategy for adoption and no consistent guardrails in place to mitigate risks.

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Heather J. Hough

In American education, the scars of the “accountability wars” still run deep. More than two decades after the federal No Child Left Behind Act established punitive, high-profile accountability requirements for America’s K–12 schools, states and districts remain wary of debates over testing, student performance, and school improvement.

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Pods in Action: Southern Nevada Urban Micro Academy

Paola Gilliam, Sharon Kebschull Barrett

The City of North Las Vegas funded education nonprofit Nevada Action to set up a microschool.

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Lessons for Improving Curriculum from the COVID–19 Pandemic

Morgan Polikoff

There have been countless challenges faced by American families with school-aged children during the COVID-19 pandemic. Among the many challenges specifically relating to education has been ensuring children had access to a challenging academic curriculum.

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The Demand Side of Alternative Education Products

Michael McShane, Paul DiPerna

Survey results show there is potentially a robust market for learning pods, or similar arrangements such as microschools, hybrid homeschools, and homeschool cooperatives.

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The Promise and Challenges of Pandemic Innovation in High Schools

Betheny Gross, Sarah McCann

This report summarizes what we observed from a survey of New England high schools as they navigated the uncertainty of the pandemic.

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Crisis Breeds Innovation: Pandemic Pods and the Future of Education

Ashley Jochim, Jennifer Poon

This report offers the first in-depth look at families’ and educators’ experiences with pandemic pods.

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Student Support That Meets the Moment: The Need for Clarity and Rigor in SEL

Lisa Chu, Michael DeArmond

As stress and disruption have intensified for students over the past two years due to the pandemic, so has interest in and spending on social-emotional learning (SEL) in public education.

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