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School Choice

2025 Is a Year for Hard Truths and Bold Solutions in Education

Happy 2025! Longtime readers will know that CRPE prides itself on “thinking forward.” We make straight-out predictions from time to time, but we mostly look around the corner at looming trends,...

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Charter Schools

So, How Did I Do? A Response to My 2024 Predictions on Education

Last February, I went out on a limb and made ten predictions about what we’d see this year regarding policy and practice. At the time, I said: “Unlike cable news pundits, who rarely hold themselves...

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STEM

This Pi Day, Let's Celebrate Girls Killing It at STEM

Schools, businesses, nonprofits, governments and militaries around the world are slowly waking up to the need to close the gender gap in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) fields,...

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Inclusion

8 Things That Make a Good School

Educators have difficulty agreeing upon what makes a “good school.” My thoughts about this topic have continued to change as I progressed through K-12, earned my bachelor’s degree, began teaching,...

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EdTech

This year, I’m Black to the Future. | Black History Month 2024

Consider this lesser-known vignette from 1968: Captain Kirk, a white character, and Lieutenant Uhura, a black character, share an on-screen kiss in "Star Trek." At a time when 80 percent of Americans...

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Learning

We Can All Be Learning Heroes

Once again, it’s time for Always Learning to ask “how are the children.” When it comes to school, the answer for students is “they’ve fallen massively behind and their parents who rely solely on...

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