Achievement Gap
The NAEPs of Wrath
How did you recognize NAEP Day this year? Many reveled in platitudes and short stories, mostly fiction, told to confirm our biases for this or that educational intervention. I’m reasonably...
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,...
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...
anti-racism
The Fight for Our Children Is Never Done
Last week, I was honored to lead a panel discussion with Angela Davis, Ericka Huggins, and Hamid Khalid at the Black Male Educator Conference. Being in a hotel full of Black educators, influencers,...
Learning loss
Is Extended Time the Key to Solving Chronic Absenteeism?
Chronic absenteeism has nearly doubled in public schools across the country since the pandemic. Better than a quarter of students are missing 10% or more of school days. According to recent data,...
Math
Empowering Students: Math and Coding to Beat the Summer Learning Slide
Summer is a critical time for students, especially Black students, who are disproportionately affected by the much talked about summer learning slide. There's some uncertainty about how serious a...
