CRPE offers a premortem to give leaders pushing for change the foresight they need to overcome the barriers that threaten the lifespan of ambitious work.
CRPE offers a premortem to give leaders pushing for change the foresight they need to overcome the barriers that threaten the lifespan of ambitious work.
As part of CRPE’s ongoing review of how large districts are responding to the pandemic and planning to spend their federal COVID-19 relief dollars, we looked into how districts are planning to address staff recruitment...
In this report, we update our ongoing research on five school systems to reveal the academic, social, and political challenges posed by the pandemic and what system leaders and their staff are doing to address...
In the U.S. and around the world, young people in the wake of the pandemic are struggling with depression, anxiety, stress and other mental health challenges, and schools are often unable to find enough counselors...
Imagine a time traveler from 1924 arrives in 2024. She’s overwhelmed by how the world has changed, from ubiquitous smartphone use to widespread vaccine access. Then, she steps into a typical school, and she’s confused....
This report summarizes a two-day seminar which addressed the question, “How Can Communities Do School Choice Right?” convened at the Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., in August 2004.
When districts go into a major period of declining enrollment, schools can experience chaotic changes in staffing, course offerings, and student supports—as fixed costs eat up an increasingly large share of revenues, and teacher and...
Our report, Better Together: Ensuring Quality District Schools in Times of Charter Growth and Declining Enrollment, takes an honest look at an urgent problem that has long divided education leaders. To help inform and advance...
CRISIS BREEDS INNOVATION: Pandemic Pods and the Future of Education Appendix About This Project In the fall of 2020, the Center on Reinventing Public Education launched a national learning agenda on the small pandemic learning...
Voice and choice: New England students highlight which pandemic-era changes should stay—and which should go
Research on the pandemic’s negative impact on student learning, peer-to-peer relationships, and teenagers’ mental health makes it easy to assume high schoolers are eager to “return to normal.” Yet recent conversations with high school students...