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Amie Rapaport, Anna Saavedra, Daniel Silver, Nathanael Fast, Morgan Polikoff

This piece is a follow-up to this blog, published last year. AI is present in classrooms more than ever before, partly due to tech companies’ provision of professional learning for teachers and partly due to school districts’ large-scale purchases of AI software. Beyond helping educators save time and enhance student learning, AI has also given them a new field to teach: AI literacy.

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How Are School Districts Addressing Student Social-Emotional Needs during the Pandemic?

Michael DeArmond, Lisa Chu

In this brief, we look at how our nationally representative sample of 477 school districts attended to students’ social-emotional learning and well-being in fall 2020.

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How Can Learning Management Systems be Used Effectively to Improve Student Engagement?

Lynn Olson

This paper summarizes findings from a consensus panel on using data from learning management systems and software to help educators understand and improve student engagement during remote instruction.

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Student Supports, Professional Development, Operations and Finance at Proyecto Vimenti

Robin Lake

Three papers document lessons about finance and operations, professional development, and student support from the first year and a half of Proyecto Vimenti, Puerto Rico’s first public charter school.

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How Is School Enrollment in Washington State Shifting during COVID-19?

Sivan Tuchman, Georgia Heyward

This brief examines shifts in Washington State’s public school enrollment after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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U-Turn: Surge of COVID Cases Reverses Reopening Progress in America’s School Districts

Betheny Gross, Alice Opalka

Our December review of a statistically representative sample of 477 districts found 31 percent are operating in fully remote learning—a larger percentage than at any other point during the fall semester.

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Putting Families at the Center: The Role of Parent Advocacy Groups during COVID-19

Georgia Heyward

As school systems nationwide struggle to deliver learning in a pandemic, parent advocacy groups are stepping up to help Black and Hispanic families who have often been left out of previous education policy making discussions.

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