Learning as We Go: Principles for Effective Assessment During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This paper summarizes the findings from a panel of assessment experts on diagnostic assessments and their role in helping educators and parents support student learning.
This is hell’: Parents and kids hate online learning, but they could face more of it
Robin Lake is quoted in USA Today about online learning.
How Much Are Children Falling Behind In School Because Of COVID-19 Pandemic?
Robin Lake is interviewed on WBUR’s Here & Now about learning losses during COVID-19.
The Wait for Fall Reopening Plans, and the First Details to Emerge
Parents, students, teachers, policymakers, and community members are all waiting for schools to release fall reopening plans. Four months into COVID-19, and just weeks out from the new school year, very few districts in our database report concrete expectations for the 2020-21 school year. CRPE has been watching for reopening plans for the 100 districts […]
Schools need to reopen: Continued closures will only widen the divide in learning
CRPE’s analysis of school district COVID-19 plans is cited in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
America’s great remote-learning experiment: What surveys of teachers and parents tell us about how it went
Chalkbeat cites CRPE’s brief, Too Many Schools Leave Learning to Chance During the Pandemic.
Deficiencies in Spring and Summer Point to Where Districts Must Put Their Attention This Fall
School systems face a monumental challenge preparing for fall amid a public health and fiscal crisis. Vulnerable students can ill afford to repeat this spring, when the initial virus outbreaks and sudden closures caught schools unprepared. Gaps in spring and summer planning can point districts to the critical issues they must attend to in the […]
School’s Out for the Summer: Parents Worry about Social-Emotional Impacts of Closures
As the school year closes, parents are experiencing complex emotions: relief that the remote learning roller coaster has ended, gratitude for the educators who have worked tirelessly these last few months, and worry about the future. Parents worry—not only about the potential academic loss for students across the country, but about the social-emotional and mental […]
Building Effective Relationships with a Teacher-Family-Student Triangle
The COVID-19 pandemic has thrust parents into a new role with their kids: helping them organize their days and weeks, tracking what assignments are due, and providing instructional, social-emotional, and technical support. For schools to have effective working relationships with parents as co-teachers, they must look beyond the traditional teacher-student relationship, and they must manage […]
Why Schools Are Not Holding Students Back to Address COVID-19 Learning Loss
Bree Dusseault is quoted in Education Week on learning loss amid COVID-19.