AI reached K–12 classrooms before state policies on its use and role in public education did. States are taking action—but for most, that action is still ad hoc, fragmented, and not keeping up with th...

A new white paper from the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) names our current reality: no shared measures of success, governance not keeping pace with the technology, and a market increas...

School districts are struggling to create both equitable and fundamentally different outcomes for young people through incremental improvements. The alternative is transformational systems change, whe...

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As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, civic learning is having a moment—but new data suggest that more support is needed to move students from knowing the basics to participating in civics...

New AI tools are entering the ed tech market every day. But how are they actually playing out in schools and classrooms? Drawing on semi-structured interviews with more than 50 stakeholders across ed ...

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Concerns about the state of the teacher workforce are evergreen. Attracting, developing, and retaining effective teachers in the United States is a long-standing challenge (Kraft & Lyon, 2024), and in...

The Center on Reinventing Public Education says educators should look critically at all research, calls for huge new study on best teaching practices.

In 2024–25, Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) launched a districtwide pilot of virtual, high-dosage, 1:1 literacy tutoring in partnership with three providers: Hoot, Ignite Reading, and OpenLiter...

In American education, the scars of the “accountability wars” still run deep. More than two decades after the federal No Child Left Behind Act established punitive, high-profile accountability require...

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Across the country, school leaders are reimagining how students learn—designing models that are more engaging, effective, and connected to the world students are entering. But many say that today’s st...

Nitkin: Only 29% of school leaders say accountability data helps them improve student outcomes, and half say testing makes it harder to innovate.

Across the country, school leaders are reimagining how students learn—designing models that are more engaging, effective, and connected to the world students are entering. But many say that today’s st...

STATE OF THE STUDENT 2025 Getting U.S. Students Back on Track in Math Five years after Covid-19 disrupted schools, American students are not just recovering slowly—many are falling further behind. Thi...

CRPE researchers also cite grade inflation and lack of transparency in reporting student scores, while arguing these drawbacks can be remedied.

In the United States, most students graduating from high school don’t know what compound interest is before they sign up for a credit card. But in Singapore, Japan, and Finland, students have a better...

STATE OF THE STUDENT 2025 Getting U.S. Students Back on Track in Math Five years after Covid-19 disrupted schools, American students are not just recovering slowly—many are falling further behind. Thi...

STATE OF THE STUDENT 2025 Getting U.S. Students Back on Track in Math Five years after Covid-19 disrupted schools, American students are not just recovering slowly—many are falling further behind. Thi...

The State of the American Student 2025 Getting Students Back on Track in Math Five years after Covid-19 disrupted schools, American students are not just recovering slowly—many are falling further beh...

TEMPE, AZ — Over the past four years, CRPE’s Evidence Project has tracked the pandemic’s impact on students and school system recovery efforts. These collective efforts are far from complete—and face ...

Teachers are key to effective ed-tech interventions. A new study looks at ways to engage them.

The United States faces a serious workforce challenge—not just in raw numbers, but in how we prepare and support talent across sectors. As economist Tony Carnevale has emphasized, our economic future ...

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US math scores have been declining for over a decade—does AI offer possible solutions?

New research on career and technical ed, teacher turnover, and more.

A high-stakes clash at the US Supreme Court threatens to upend the nation’s charter-school system and further strain an already challenged investment arena.

A special edition of Think Forward: Learning with AI

My takeaways from ASU+GSV, new research, and emerging school use cases

Teacher turnover continued its downward trend in the 2023–2024 school year, reaching 7 percent. That's still higher than the prepandemic level of 6 percent. And according to district reports, principa...

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As of fall 2024, roughly half of U.S. school districts reported that they provided training to their teachers about generative AI–powered tools, such as ChatGPT. That's twice as many districts that re...

Weiner & Lake: Not one superintendent we spoke with considered higher education a resource for artificial intelligence-related professional learning.

Now? Soon? Never? Plus more on new tools, research, and commentaries.

New data on learning recovery, school absenteeism and enrollment, the student mental health crisis, and more