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America Can’t be Great Without Good Schools: How Policymakers Can Create More of Them

Ashley Jochim, Morgan Polikoff

A policy agenda for K-12 schools 1. Take a reasonable middle ground in the culture wars 2. Invest in systems that keep students safe 3.

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Picking Up the Pieces of Federal Education Programs: Can Block Grants Help Marginalized Learners?

Paul Hill

The Trump administration is following the Project 2025 agenda, vowing to turn federal education programs into block grants or issue blanket waivers that would let states see money in any way they want.

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Launching districtwide innovation: Lessons learned from a year of pursuing “Bold Ideas” for systemic change

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.

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Running fast but not getting far: Five years of studying the pandemic’s impact on education

Lydia Rainey, Paul Hill, Lisa Chu, Daniel Silver

This report distills five years of research to understand how the pandemic reshaped public education. Drawing from over 100 reports and articles, we examine the crisis response, recovery efforts, and ongoing challenges facing schools today.

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Our studies span governance, systems, and practice in public education. Through our reports we help make sense of complex trends and data, communicate new possibilities for system change, and provide guidance and thought leadership to support that change.

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Independent peer review is an integral part of all CRPE research projects. Peer reviews are conducted by research or policy professionals who are not members of the CRPE project team. Some externally published work, such as commissioned papers, books and book chapters, journal articles, and op eds, may be hosted on other sites, and some may require purchase or subscriptions to view.

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