• The Lens   
Robin Lake, Chelsea Waite

Tomorrow’s release of the Nation’s Report Card will surely generate abundant hand-wringing among parents, policymakers, business leaders, and educators. While the fine-grained details deserve examination, we can already tell you what the headlines will say: American students are not receiving the educational opportunities they deserve, nor those that will enable them to thrive in an increasingly complex society and changing economy.

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  • Research Reports    
Lydia Rainey, Michael Berardino, Lisa Chu, Bree Dusseault, Steven Weiner

What does it really take to pilot bold, systemwide innovation in public education? Over the 2023–24 school year, CRPE partnered with 11 districts across the country to support and study their “Bold Ideas”—ambitious initiatives designed to make student learning more joyful, individualized, and relevant.

Latest Research Publications

  • Research Reports    

All Together Now: Getting Students with Disabilities What They Need During the Pandemic

Katy Bateman, Sivan Tuchman

During the 2020–21 school year, we learned through a series of interviews that most teachers missed out on the power of collaborative interactions between general and special educators.

  • Research Reports    

How Has the Pandemic Affected Students’ Social-Emotional Well-Being? A Review of the Evidence to Date

Betheny Gross, Robin Lake

This report is part of a series that aims to provide a definitive account of the best available evidence on how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected America’s students.

  • Research Reports    

New England Profiles of Innovation | Nokomis Regional High School

Sarah McCann

This profile of Nokomis Regional High School in Newport, Maine details the school’s practices that have made it successful, how they have adapted in the fact of the pandemic, and how other school communities can begin conversations about creating flexible pathways for students to design components of their own high school experience.

  • Research Reports    

Approaching SEL as a Whole-School Effort, Not an Add-On: Lessons from Two Charter Networks

Lisa Chu, Michael DeArmond

This paper highlights the approach that two innovative charter networks took last year to address student well-being and social-emotional development.

  • Research Reports    

How Has the Pandemic Affected Students with Disabilities? A Review of the Evidence to Date

Lauren Morando Rhim, Sumeyra Ekin

This report is part of a series that aims to provide a definitive account of the best available evidence on how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected America’s students.

  • Research Reports    

School Districts Across the Nation Plan for An Uncertain Year Ahead

Betheny Gross, Alice Opalka

This brief gives a snapshot of how school districts across the country are currently planning for fall 2020, how they are planning for contingencies of COVID-19 spread, and how this varies based on district characteristics.

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