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Mike Petrilli

For better or worse, AI, and especially chatbots associated with Large Language Models, are already changing the daily rhythms of education here and around the world. Organizations, including the Center on Reinventing Public Education, are providing critical guidance to schools and policymakers about how educators can best take advantage of AI’s opportunities (such as personalized learning) while mitigating the risks (such as the collapse in student effort).

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Latest Research Publications

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The kids are (really) not alright: A synthesis of COVID-19 student surveys

Lisa Chu, Robin Lake

This brief from the Evidence Project synthesizes student surveys from the 2020–21 school year.

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Is it Safe to Reopen Schools?

John Bailey

This report examines the collective findings of more than 120 studies and considers their implications for current decisions on reopening schools.

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How Schools Adapt during the Pandemic Can Reshape Adolescent Learning Experiences for Generations

Betheny Gross, Georgia Heyward, Sarah McCann

This brief, informed by interviews with school and system leaders in the New England region, suggests some efforts to reinvent schools before the pandemic have helped schools to navigate the current crisis.

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Toward Understanding Unionization’s Impact on Charter School Students

Lesley Lavery, Sean Gill, Ashley Jochim

In this brief, we set out to understand how unionization may or may not shape practices central to charter schools’ ability to serve students.

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State Accountability Systems in the COVID Era and Beyond

Robin Lake, Maria Worthen

This brief presents a set of ideas and themes to begin to inform challenges around testing and accountability during the pandemic.

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“Public Education Will Never Be the Same”: How COVID-19 Forced School District Leaders to Innovate on the Fly

Robin Lake

In this brief, we summarize themes from an American School District Panel survey on innovation during COVID-19.

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