• The Lens   
Bree Dusseault, Jared Hurwitz, Michael Berardino

In the two years since ChatGPT’s release, generative AI (genAI) tools have flooded the K-12 education space. Each day, educators and administrators hear new claims about AI’s power to transform learning, while also facing warnings about its dangers. Caught between the hype and the fear, they struggle to distinguish real opportunities from noise.

Must-Reads

  • 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    

The State of the American Student: Fall 2022 Executive Summary

Robin Lake, Travis Pillow

This executive summary provides highlights of the primary findings and recommendations from the State of the American Student: Fall 2022 report that draws on data the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) has collected and synthesized during the pandemic.

  • Research Reports    

The State of the American Student: Fall 2022

Robin Lake, Travis Pillow

This report draws on data the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) has collected and synthesized over the course of the pandemic.

  • Research Reports    

The pandemic’s toll on students and society

To accompany CRPE’s inaugural State of the American Student report in 2022, researchers and experts assembled a fast facts one-pager for readers to use as they follow the recovery and reinvention of U.S.

  • Research Reports    

Education reform that sticks

Paul Hill, Ashley Jochim

Public education depends on expertise, work, money, and cooperation from multiple actors who have different interests and beliefs. These lead to competition and negotiation—in other words, politics.

  • Research Reports    

Shifting students: Pandemic-era enrollment changes present challenges and opportunities for Washington’s public charters

CRPE’s September 2022 brief, “Shifting students: A look at Washington State school enrollment from 2020 to 2022,” found that fewer students were enrolled in the state’s traditional public schools in 2021-22 than 2019-20, while enrollment in private schools, home schools, and public charter schools increased during that time.

  • Research Reports    

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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