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This was originally published in The 74. Twenty years ago tomorrow, Hurricane Katrina destroyed much of New Orleans, including its schools. Students and teachers fled the city — nobody knew how many would return, or where they would live. The post-Katrina reinvigoration of public education in New Orleans is one of the great stories of that city’s recovery.
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School districts are making consequential AI decisions largely on their own—purchasing tools, training teachers, setting policies for student use, and trying to determine what responsible and effective adoption looks like.
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New AI tools are entering the ed tech market every day. But how are they actually playing out in schools and classrooms?
Latest Research Publications
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Apples to Apples: Common School Performance Frameworks as a Tool for Choice and Accountability
CRPE’s new paper focuses on developing a common school performance framework, tool for measuring performance of an individual school using a defined set of metrics that is common to schools across different agencies or governing bodies.
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Herding Cats: Managing Diverse Charter School Interests in Collaboration Efforts
This paper looks at why many cities have missed opportunities to create more lasting relationships between their district and charter sectors, and offers suggestions for fostering stronger partnerships that could help improve outcomes for all of the students in their cities.
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The State Role in K–12 Education: From Issuing Mandates to Experimentation
Betheny Gross and Paul Hill discuss the challenges and opportunities for state-level experimentation created by the Every Student Succeeds Act, in the Harvard Law and Policy Review.