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Joel Vargas

Imagine a world where every high school junior has walked a factory floor, sat in a boardroom, taken college courses, and earned credentials valued by employers before graduation. Even before they’re legal adults, these students will have cracked open the door to a career by blurring the lines between school and work.

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Shifting students: A look at Washington State school enrollment from 2020 to 2022

Katy Bateman

As in other states, enrollment in Washington State’s public schools has shifted during the Covid-19 pandemic. This brief examines enrollment changes in Washington’s district, charter, private, and home schools from September 2019 to September 2021.

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Reporter’s Guide: Questions for assessing how your state or district is tracking pandemic impact and recovery

Travis Pillow, Whitney Marsh

To accompany CRPE’s inaugural State of the American Student report in 2022, researchers and experts assembled a guide with critical questions for media to consider as they follow the recovery — and we hope, the reinvention — of U.S.

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From pods to public schools: Bringing the best of pandemic learning to traditional systems

For more than two years, CRPE has studied the practices and impact of pandemic learning pods in hopes of identifying lessons that can be applied more broadly to improving public education for all students.

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Student achievement gaps and the pandemic: A new review of evidence from 2021–2022

Paul Hill

This report begins the second round of an updated series of papers that aim to provide a definitive account of the best available evidence on how the Covid-19 pandemic has affected America’s students.

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Perspectives that bind: Reshaping partnerships in education

Femi Vance

Partnerships between schools, families, and expanded learning providers are a powerful tool that could be used for lasting change in education.

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Pods in Action: KaiPod Learning

Steven Weiner

A new company sustaining the pandemic pod model offers flexibility to teachers, students and parents.

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